Job Title: CB IB Ops F2B Transformation, VP

Location: Bangalore, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

• As a Vice President – Process Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Corporate Bank’s strategic transformation agenda. You will partner Corporate Banking branch operations and coverage support teams to re‑engineer processes, enhance controls, automate workflows, and transform risk‑management and client‑service capabilities.
• You will help build centers of excellence across process optimization, automation, and data analytics—delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, cycle time, resiliency, and digital enablement, in line with Corporate Bank’s operating model.
• The role reports to the Front to Back Operations Transformation Lead.

Corporate Bank – Division Overview

• The Corporate Bank (CB) is Deutsche Bank’s engine for serving corporate and institutional clients globally. It provides cash management, trade finance & lending, trust & agency services, and securities services, supporting companies’ treasury, liquidity, and transaction‑banking needs. The division plays a pivotal role in enabling efficient, secure, and innovative financial operations for global corporates.
• Corporate Bank Operations (CB Operations) is a fully front‑to‑back aligned delivery model providing transaction processing, reporting, and cash‑management operational services to CB product lines, while driving standardization, digitization, and scalable operational excellence.
• CB Operations also partners closely with Corporate Banking branch and coverage teams to support client onboarding, servicing, and transaction execution at the country and regional level.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• 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

Your 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, aligned to business, client, cost, risk and regulatory priorities
• 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.

Your skills and experience

• 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; familiarity with client onboarding, documentation, credit administration, booking, servicing and transaction processing.
• Demonstrated delivery of multi-year, enterprise-scale operations transformation—not solely technology implementation—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, including planning, dependencies, critical paths, RAID, governance and quality management.
• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; recognised programme/project or change certification (for example PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile or Prosci) is desirable.

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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.