# Embedded Risk Team / Divisional Control Office, Director **Company**: Deutsche Bank **Location**: Bangalore **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DBWebsite/job/Bangalore-Velankani-ISC/Embedded-Risk-Team---Divisional-Control-Office--Director_R0445961-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4698889d-478 ## Description The Director – Embedded Risk will provide strategic leadership for the risk and control agenda across KYC Operations and BFCR. 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. **Key Responsibilities:** - 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. - Lead governance forums and working groups focused on control transformation, risk acceptance, sustainable remediation and data or technology enablement. - Promote consistent risk-management practices across global and regional teams while recognising legitimate jurisdictional and business differences. - Oversee the identification, assessment, documentation and escalation of material risks across end-to-end KYC and BFCR processes. - Challenge whether risks are accurately articulated, supported by evidence and linked to clear ownership, risk responses, milestones and success criteria. - 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. - Challenge remediation plans for clarity, completeness, feasibility, dependency management and sustainability before governance approval or closure submission. - Ensure audit and regulatory commitments are tracked through effective governance, with emerging delivery risks escalated early and transparently. - Promote responsible use of analytics, automation and AI-supported tools where these strengthen risk identification, testing, monitoring and management information. - 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. **Requirements:** - 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. **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 For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - KYC/AML - sanctions - risk management - control design - testing - monitoring - remediation - audit - regulatory engagement - findings management - governance - leadership - team management --- Source: [Apply at db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DBWebsite/job/Bangalore-Velankani-ISC/Embedded-Risk-Team---Divisional-Control-Office--Director_R0445961-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)