Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Operations Control Governance & Conformance

Job Title Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Operations Control Governance & Conformance

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Deutsche Bank benefits from having a highly experienced and dedicated AFC function, which performs a crucial role in keeping Deutsche Bank’s business operations and global financial services clean from financial crime while serving the interests of the Bank and society. Our regional/global matrix structure allows for flexible responses to challenges in the core areas of: Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions & Embargoes, Anti-Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, Investigations & Intelligence, Monitoring & Screening, and Risk Assessment.

Our AFC Team will provide you with opportunities to learn, grow and define your career. We foster an open, diverse, and inclusive team culture, that is engaged and well-supported for prosperity and enjoyment of a life/work balance.

You will support in strengthening the control environment across AFC Operations by driving governance, conformance, audit readiness, issue remediation oversight and control effectiveness activities. The role will provide independent challenge, transparency and coordination across operational teams, helping ensure regulatory, policy and risk management expectations are consistently met while enabling sustainable operational improvement.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Support the Control Governance & Conformance capability in defining, embedding and maintaining the AFC Operations control strategy and governance framework.

• Support coordination of conformance reviews, audit and regulatory activities, providing consistent oversight across AFC Operations.

• Provide independent challenge on control design and effectiveness, operational risks, issues, root causes and remediation priorities.

• Establish management information, metrics and reporting that provide transparent views of control health, emerging risks and remediation delivery.

• Facilitate governance forums covering audit actions, regulatory commitments, control issues and evidence of sustainable closure.

• Partner together with capability leads and subject-matter experts to strengthen control execution, documentation, evidence management, accountability and continuous improvement.

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience within Risk, Controls, Governance, Audit, Compliance or Financial Crime functions in financial services.

• Practical experience overseeing operational control frameworks, control effectiveness assessments and conformance activities.

• Proven track record coordinating audit, regulatory review, issue management and sustainable remediation in a highly regulated environment.

• Ability to provide independent challenge, identify control weaknesses and risk themes, and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and root-cause assessment skills, with experience producing management information, assurance reporting and control-health assessments.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to operate effectively across complex, global organisations.

How we’ll support you

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.