CB IB Ops F2B Transformation, VP

We are seeking a Vice President – Process Engineer to contribute to Corporate Bank's strategic transformation agenda. You will partner with Corporate Banking branch operations and coverage support teams to re-engineer processes, enhance controls, automate workflows, and transform risk-management and client-service capabilities.

The Corporate Bank (CB) is Deutsche Bank's engine for serving corporate and institutional clients globally, providing cash management, trade finance & lending, trust & agency services, and securities services.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Own programme financials and benefits realisation, including baselines, business cases, investment tracking, capacity impacts, productivity measures and post-implementation validation.
• 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.
• Use data, process metrics and client/operational insights to identify bottlenecks, prioritise interventions and monitor KPIs, KRIs, service levels and transformation outcomes.
• 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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Demonstrated delivery of multi-year, enterprise-scale operations transformation 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.
• 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.

Benefits:

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above