Job Description:

Job Title: Head of Audit for Chief Finance Office

Location: New York

Division: Group Audit

Corporate Title: Managing Director

Overview

As a global function of approximately 830 professionals, Group Audit provides independent assurance to Deutsche Bank's Management Board and Supervisory Board on the effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal controls.

You will lead the global audit strategy, coverage and delivery for Deutsche Bank's Chief Finance Office portfolio, providing an overarching and holistic view of Finance-related risks, controls and processes across the Bank. Working closely with business-line audit teams and Risk audit teams, you will coordinate assurance across key interdependencies and ensure Finance audit coverage is joined-up across portfolios, providing an integrated view of risks, controls and themes across the organisation.

You will bring together financial, non-financial and technology risk perspectives to deliver coordinated, forward-looking assurance across products, processes, regions and legal entities. You will identify emerging risks, strategic themes and root causes, translating insight into a joined-up view of material issues and their wider implications. Working with senior management, governance bodies and regulators, you will turn audit insight into sustainable improvements in risk management, controls and organisational resilience.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Lead the global audit strategy, coverage and audit plan for the Chief Finance Office portfolio, aligning activity with the Bank's principal and emerging risks.
• Oversee audit risk through effective identification, assessment, control, monitoring and reporting of material risks.
• Provide independent assurance that Chief Finance Office controls are appropriately designed, operate effectively and mitigate material risks.
• Use data, analytics, trend signals and early indicators to anticipate and identify emerging risks, strategic themes and potential cross-portfolio impacts, adapting audit coverage as priorities evolve.
• Identify strategic themes, systemic risks and root causes, connecting findings across portfolios to distinguish broader patterns and underlying drivers, and translating audit insight into sustainable improvements in risk management and control effectiveness.
• Maintain accountability for the end-to-end delivery of the global audit plan, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across teams and regions.
• Define portfolio resources, skills and organisational structure, aligning capability and capacity with risk priorities and future audit requirements.
• Partner with Group Audit Regional Heads to address material risks, strengthen stakeholder engagement and support effective leadership representation.
• Advance audit methodology, governance and reporting while promoting the responsible use of data, analytics, automation and artificial intelligence.

How You’ll Lead

• Shape senior stakeholder relationships, provide independent challenge and ensure audit insights support meaningful action and sustainable outcomes
• Coordinate with business-line, Risk and regional audit teams to deliver integrated, end-to-end assurance across products, processes and legal entities, ensuring Finance audit coverage is joined-up across portfolios and provides a holistic view of risks, controls, themes and key interdependencies across the organisation.
• Contribute as an active member of the Group Audit Leadership Team, collectively shaping Group Audit strategy, priorities and the global audit plan, while helping drive the ongoing transformation of the function.

Skills You’ll Need

• 10+ years internal audit leadership experience within financial services, including complex multi-jurisdiction audits and horizontal reviews delivered to rigorous methodology, quality and regulatory standards.
• 10+ years of Chief Finance Office experience across financial reporting, capital and liquidity, treasury, product control, valuations and tax.
• 5+ years experience managing European Central Bank relationships, regulatory examinations and supervisory engagement.
• 10+ years experience leading global teams through talent management, succession planning, coaching and capability development.
• 5+ years experience successfully using data analytics, automated testing and exception analysis while applying appropriate data quality, explainability and governance standards.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Proven ability to influence senior management, board members, governance bodies and regulators through clear communication and credible independent challenge.
• Strong understanding of industry trends, market developments and regulatory expectations, with the judgement to translate these insights into audit priorities.
• Proven ability to direct change initiatives and influence complex transformation programmes across business, risk and control functions.
• Demonstrated ability to align First-Line and Second-Line perspectives, clarify ownership and hand-offs and coordinate combined assurance.

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model. 

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York City is $430,000 to $580,000.  Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications.  Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

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