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What they do

United Overseas Bank (UOB) is a bank with its head office in Singapore. It has banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, and about 430 branches and offices in 19 markets. It was incorporated in 1935. It serves individuals and companies. UOB says that its purpose is to build the future of ASEAN.

What they value

• Honourable: do what is right, with high professional and moral standards.
• Enterprising: build for the future with insight and a forward-looking mind.
• United: work as a team, with collaboration and mutual respect.
• Committed: pursue long-term success and make a positive difference.
• Care, Growth, and Trust, which UOB calls its people philosophy.
• Growing its own people, through upskilling, reskilling, and moves inside the bank.

Where they hire

The board has 1,053 Postings. Malaysia holds 377, Singapore 360, Thailand 132, Indonesia 93, Vietnam 54, Hong Kong 23, and China 11. In a sample of 79 Postings, 53 were on site, 19 were hybrid, and one was fully remote. No sampled Posting mentions visa sponsorship or the right to work.

Teams and roles

The board groups its 1,053 Postings by job category. Nearly all are full time, and 990 are permanent.

• Front Office: 441 Postings, the largest group. These are relationship managers, personal bankers, client advisors, mortgage specialists, and bancassurance (insurance sold through a bank) specialists, many at named branches.
• Mid/Back-Office: 168 Postings in operations, such as global markets operations, remittance, and client services.
• Technology: 140 Postings. These include developers for cards and core banking, system analysts, business analysts, an Android developer, and cyber defence support. Many are at UOB Innovation Hub 2, a UOB subsidiary in Kuala Lumpur that serves the group.
• Credit, Risk and Compliance: 117 Postings, with many in anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime.
• Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics: 57 Postings, such as data scientists, data engineers, and AI platform specialists in Singapore.
• Product: 28 Postings, such as product managers and product owners for transaction banking and for TMRW, the digital bank of UOB.
• Other groups: Finance and Accounting has 27 Postings, Human Resources 26, Audit 15, Strategy and Transformation 13, Corporate Services 12, Brand and Communications 6, and Legal 3.

What they look for

Most Postings ask for a degree and for experience in banking or financial services. In the sample of 79, 45 name a degree. Many roles are senior. The data scientist Posting asks for a postgraduate degree, 8 years of data science work, Python, and experience deploying large language models. The data engineer Posting asks for 15 years in technology delivery, with Spark, Java, Python, and advanced SQL. The cards system analyst Posting asks for 10 years as an analyst, with experience in the cards domain of a bank. The cyber defence Posting asks for 5 to 7 years with security tools, 2 years in a security operations centre, and after-hours on-call support.

Risk and compliance Postings ask for knowledge of the rules. The AI assurance Posting asks for 7 to 10 years in AI or data governance and knowledge of the Singapore regulators. Front office Postings ask for a record of meeting sales targets and for knowledge of banking products. Some name local licences as an advantage. A wealth banking Posting in Malaysia asks for English and Mandarin. A small share of Postings in Thailand and Indonesia are written in Thai or Indonesian.