Deutsche Bank India | CB IB Ops F2B Transformation, VP

Responsibilities

• As a Vice President – Process Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Corporate Bank’s strategic transformation agenda.
• You will help build centers of excellence across process optimization, automation, and data analytics—delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, cycle time, resiliency, and digital enablement, in line with Corporate Bank’s operating model.
• The role reports to the Front to Back Operations Transformation Lead.
• You will partner Corporate Banking branch operations and coverage support teams to re‑engineer processes, enhance controls, automate workflows, and transform risk‑management and client‑service capabilities.
• Drive simplification and standardisation, removing duplication, reducing manual touchpoints, improving straight-through processing and shortening turnaround times.
• Establish robust programme governance, including steering forums, integrated plans, RAID management, decision logs, scope/change control, quality assurance and executive reporting.
• Build alignment across senior global and regional stakeholders in Operations, Product, Sales, Credit, Technology, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal and Audit.
• Lead organisational change and adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications, training, procedure updates, role clarity and reinforcement of new ways of working.
• Lead, coach and mobilise cross-functional project teams, workstream leads, subject-matter experts and external partners across multiple locations and time zones.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to executive sponsors; surface trade-offs early and resolve or escalate material delivery, risk, resource and dependency issues.
• Lead end-to-end process discovery and redesign across onboarding, origination, documentation, booking, transaction processing, servicing, settlements, controls and reporting for Trade Finance and Lending Operations, aligned to business, client, cost, risk and regulatory priorities
• Define and implement the target operating model, clarifying activity ownership, roles, locations, capacity and hand-offs across Coverage, RTM/Middle Office, Operations, Technology and control functions.
• Own programme financials and benefits realisation, including baselines, business cases, investment tracking, capacity impacts, productivity measures and post-implementation validation.
• Use data, process metrics and client/operational insights to identify bottlenecks, prioritise interventions and monitor KPIs, KRIs, service levels and transformation outcomes.

Your skills and experience

• Typically 12+ years of relevant experience in banking or financial services, including substantial leadership of complex transformation, programme or project portfolios at VP-equivalent level.
• Strong knowledge of Trade Finance and Lending products, operations and end-to-end lifecycle processes; familiarity with client onboarding, documentation, credit administration, booking, servicing and transaction processing.
• Demonstrated delivery of multi-year, enterprise-scale operations transformation—not solely technology implementation—with measurable improvements in cost, capacity, quality, risk or client service.
• Proven expertise in target operating model design, process re-engineering, organisational design, location strategy, service delivery and transition planning.
• Advanced programme and project-management capability across waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery, including planning, dependencies, critical paths, RAID, governance and quality management.
• Strong analytical skills, including process/data analysis, KPI and KRI design, management information, root-cause analysis and evidence-based prioritisation.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with credibility to align senior leaders and resolve competing priorities across business, operations, technology and control functions.
• Proven people leadership across diverse, distributed teams; able to set direction, create accountability, coach talent and manage vendors or consulting partners.
• Strong change-leadership capability covering impact assessment, communications, training, adoption, resistance management and operational readiness.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex issues and produce clear executive papers, steering updates and recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; recognised programme/project or change certification (for example PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile or Prosci) is desirable.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a leading German bank, founded in Berlin in 1870 and headquartered in Frankfurt. Its businesses span the Corporate Bank, the Investment Bank, the Private Bank and asset management through DWS, serving companies, institutions and individuals worldwide.

Deutsche Bank has been present in India since 1980. Besides its branch banking business, its Indian centres in Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Jaipur support the group globally in technology, operations and finance. Finance professionals typically work in financial control, product control, regulatory reporting, tax, internal audit and risk.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• In India: Branch banking plus large global capability centres in Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Jaipur