Assistant Director, Data Analyst, Banking Department (Contract)

[What the role is]
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore – banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

[What you will be working on]

You will be part of a team responsible for the knowledge management and data analysis for banking supervision.

You will play an active role in identifying supervision needs and translating these into technological requirements for the department to enable transformation, and help to develop the technology uplift plans for the department. You will also work with banking supervisors to ideate, test and implement data analytics and transformation scripts to enable automated data analysis and risk identification in the medium term.

In the course of your work, you will have opportunities to interact with other units in MAS (Suptech, Surveillance & Analytics Division, Tech Products Division, Supervisory Methodologies Tools and Analytics Division, Technology & Analytics Technology Group, Enterprise Knowledge Department) to conceptualise, design and implement technological solutions for the Department. 

[What are we looking for]

• The individual should also have knowledge in data science and analytics (e.g. Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Data Analytics/AIML) and is comfortable with programming. This includes the following knowledge/skillsets:

  • Statistics/financial econometrics

  • Programming in Python, and/or other languages

  • AI/ML, NLP, LLM/prompt engineering

  • SQL

This is a 1-year contract role. As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting