Enterprise Knowledge-Graph Recovery Leader — Trade Finance

The mandate

The entity-intelligence director was removed after internal testing found that beneficial-ownership edges with weak provenance had suppressed sanctions alerts in complex trade structures. No prohibited payment was confirmed, but graph merges, confidence scores and analyst overrides cannot be reconstructed consistently across releases. The risk committee has paused expansion into two corridors until accountable graph control is restored.

The interim starts within fifteen days for a fixed nine-month recovery, taking executive authority across the graph platform and its financial-crime use. The permanent search opens after an independent look-back establishes the remediation scope in month two. A four-week successor overlap is reserved in the final month; delayed recruitment will not extend the assignment or dilute the evidence threshold.

Successful handover requires every high-risk edge to carry source, effective date, confidence rationale and accountable owner; the priority population must be rebuilt and independently replayed; and three monthly screening cycles must complete without an unexplained material alert variance. The successor will personally reproduce one entity history and sign the residual limitations, model changes and corridor-release criteria.

The interim may freeze graph releases, reverse unsafe merge logic, require analyst re-performance, reassign approved engineering capacity and commission external validation within S$9 million. Only the risk committee may reopen suspended corridors, accept material missed-alert risk or approve public and regulatory communications. Permanent hiring, customer offboarding and changes to sanctions policy remain outside unilateral authority.

Core transaction-monitoring replacement, trade-product pricing and remediation of unrelated customer files are beyond this mandate. The leader will coordinate dependencies but is not being asked to redesign onboarding, choose a group-wide master-data platform or resolve every historic low-risk duplicate. Scope is deliberately centred on graph evidence that changes financial-crime decisions.

Why this seat is open

The control defect invalidated confidence in both the platform and its leadership, making internal temporary cover untenable. Risk needs a named executive who can stop releases while investigators distinguish modelling weakness from operating failure. The nine-month window is designed to restore defensible provenance and recruit a leader into an estate whose known limitations are no longer obscured.

What you will own

• Freeze and version the affected graph, inference rules, resolution thresholds and analyst overrides so the investigation starts from reproducible evidence.
• Reconstruct high-risk entity histories across registries, trade documents, ownership filings, watchlists and manually asserted relationships with temporal provenance preserved.
• Decide which merge, split and inferred-edge rules may return to production after cohort-level missed-alert and false-link testing.
• Direct a risk-ranked look-back that quantifies potentially suppressed alerts, routes cases for human review and records final customer or payment dispositions.
• Establish release gates covering source fitness, ontology change, threshold calibration, lineage completeness, screening replay and accountable risk acceptance.
• Present corridor-reopening evidence to the risk committee without conflating graph-quality improvement with sanctions-policy or customer-risk decisions.
• Transfer the graph inventory, unresolved entity populations, validation routines, supplier obligations and ninety-day successor plan through witnessed re-performance.

Candidate qualifications

• Held accountable leadership for a production knowledge graph used in sanctions, fraud, credit or another high-consequence regulated decision.
• Investigated an entity-resolution or relationship-inference defect and can quantify its downstream decision impact rather than reporting abstract model accuracy.
• Designed temporal provenance, confidence and override controls that allow an investigator to reconstruct why a relationship existed at a historical point.
• Led sanctions or financial-crime remediation across cross-border trade structures involving layered ownership, vessels, counterparties and inconsistent registries.
• Exercised release authority under commercial pressure and communicated uncertain exposure to boards, regulators and correspondent institutions without premature reassurance.
• Completed a permanent-successor transition after a data-control failure, including independent validation and explicit transfer of known limitations.

Non-negotiables

• Available in Singapore inside fifteen days and prepared to serve exclusively, with travel to Hong Kong and Dubai during corridor validation.
• Must have personally governed graph or entity-resolution production decisions; general data-governance leadership alone is not sufficient.
• No undisclosed relationship with graph-platform, screening-data or entity-intelligence suppliers involved in the current estate.
• Will maintain legal privilege, investigation integrity and evidence immutability while giving the risk committee an unvarnished exposure range.

1. 49 words maximum. State your availability and the highest-consequence production decision supported by a knowledge graph you led.
2. 49 words maximum. How did you discover and quantify a merge or inferred-edge defect that changed downstream alerts?
3. 49 words maximum. What evidence would you require before recommending that a suspended trade corridor reopen?