Deutsche Bank
Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Operations Transformation Execution
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Job Title: Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Operations Transformation Execution
Location: London
Corporate Title: Director
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.
What You’ll Do
You will be accountable for translating strategic objectives and Target Operating Model goals into measurable operational outcomes across AFC Operations. You will lead the execution framework for AFC Operations, ensuring that transformation initiatives, process improvements, automation opportunities, control enhancements, and performance improvement actions are effectively governed, prioritized, tracked, and delivered.
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
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Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead execution of AFC Operations strategic priorities and the transformation portfolio ensuring initiatives deliver agreed measurable business outcomes and benefits.
- Govern initiative prioritization, delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and benefit realization, ensuring measurable operational and risk outcomes.
- Establish a structured capability review framework covering production performance, service quality, capacity, productivity, and control effectiveness.
- Foster consistent execution, simplification, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across AFC Operations, overcoming barriers and organizational inefficiencies.
- Provide the Head of AFC Operations with transparent executive reporting, performance dashboards, and insight-focused recommendations on delivery and strategic risk.
- Collaborate and coordinate across AFC Operations, Compliance, Technology, AFC Chief Operating Office (COO), and Infrastructure functions, strengthening accountability and alignment among capability leads and senior stakeholders.
Your Skills and Experience
- Significant experience leading transformation, strategic execution, or operational improvement programmes within complex, global financial-services organisations.
- Strong programme leadership skills, with experience managing portfolios, multiple workstreams, dependencies, priorities, and delivery risk.
- Proven ability to translate strategic priorities into executable plans, measurable outcomes, and sustainable benefit realization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capability, supported by effective performance monitoring and management information.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and instil accountability without direct authority.
- Knowledge of Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk, or Operations environments, with experience of operating-model, workforce, or location transformation preferred.
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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.
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