Deutsche Bank India | Embedded Risk Team / Divisional Control Office, Director

Responsibilities

• The role is accountable for strengthening first-line risk management, supporting audit and regulatory readiness, overseeing control design and effectiveness, and driving sustainable remediation.
• The successful candidate will combine deep financial-crime and operational-risk expertise with strong governance, senior stakeholder engagement, data-led insight and a practical understanding of banking operations and technology.
• As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
• Provide independent, constructive challenge and trusted advice to senior leadership on financial-crime, operational, technology and change-related risks.
• Ensure that material risks, control weaknesses and emerging themes are identified early, assessed consistently, escalated appropriately and remediated sustainably.
• Build an effective risk culture in which ownership is clear, evidence is robust, decisions are transparent and lessons learned are converted into preventative action.
• Lead governance forums and working groups focused on control transformation, risk acceptance, sustainable remediation and data or technology enablement.
• Oversee the identification, assessment, documentation and escalation of material risks across end-to-end KYC and BFCR processes.
• Provide thematic analysis and read-across across incidents, findings, control failures and change initiatives to identify systemic patterns.
• Partner with Group Audit, Compliance and relevant stakeholders to maintain readiness for internal audits, regulatory reviews and external assurance activity.
• Provide leadership across the full findings lifecycle, including issue articulation, root-cause analysis, management action plans, target dates, closure documentation, validation support and lessons learned.
• Ensure audit and regulatory commitments are tracked through effective governance, with emerging delivery risks escalated early and transparently.
• Present risk insights, control-effectiveness results, thematic trends and strategic recommendations to senior leadership in a concise and decision-oriented manner.
• Build strong partnerships across Operations, BFCR, Front Office, Compliance, DCO, Audit, Technology, Data and Change teams.
• Create an environment that encourages proactive issue identification, constructive challenge, timely escalation and accountability for outcomes.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing, globally connected embedded-risk team with clear standards for judgement, execution and stakeholder service.
• Define and lead the embedded-risk strategy for KYC Operations and BFCR, translating enterprise risk appetite and regulatory expectations into clear priorities and measurable outcomes.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant experience in financial-crime risk, operational risk, controls, audit, compliance or banking operations, including substantial leadership responsibility in a complex international organisation.
• Deep knowledge of KYC/AML, sanctions, screening and financial-crime risk management, together with a strong understanding of control design, testing, monitoring and remediation.
• Demonstrated experience leading audit and regulatory engagement, findings management and senior governance forums.
• Strong understanding of banking products, client lifecycle processes, supporting technologies and front-to-back operational dependencies.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, influence senior stakeholders and deliver through ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Excellent analytical judgement, written and verbal communication, executive presentation and decision-framing skills.
• Ability to maintain high standards under time pressure while balancing strategic leadership with attention to detail.

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