Location: Manila

Corporate Title: Associate

Treasury and Business Finance (TBF) owns the Treasury and Investment Banking Finance controls and provides insights on Treasury and Business performance. TBF is a control function with a critical role of ensuring integrity, completeness, and accuracy of the Bank’s financial books and records. The group performs the Product Control function, which entails providing transparent and accurate valuation and appropriate regulatory control to avoid reputational damage to the Bank. In Deutsche Bank, this control function leverages on a multi-skilled team with capabilities to understand the financial impact of trades from the analysis of Risks and Profit and Loss up to the substantiation of the Balance Sheets, and interacts with a diverse set of stakeholders.

The Financial Control and Analysis function performs various period-end activities inclusive of but not limited to journal postings, MAFA (Management Accounts vs Financial Accounts) and FOBO (Front Office vs Back Office) reconciliations, hedge accounting and substantiating balance sheet accounts - to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial and risk reports for multiple legal entities globally.

What we’ll offer you

• Competitive Salary

• Attractive Retirement Benefit

• Medical and Life Insurance upon employment

• 20 days Annual Vacation Leaves

Your key responsibilities

• Reconcile and close the month-end General Ledger for the accounts (Balance Sheet and P&L) for the product(s) relating to the Business and Entities within the SLA, and adjust ledger to reflect structured trades and Accounting GAAP

• Investigate and clear exceptions/break items, interacting with Revenue Control and Analysis, Operations and Transaction Accounting teams to ensure that MAFA and FOBO reconciliations of all forms are clean and aged breaks have clear ownership and defined escalation process

• Improve processes and linking this to the upstream/downstream processes and outputs

• Implement standardization to methodologies and outputs

Your skills and experience (internal and external hiring)

• Bachelor's Degree in either Accountancy or Business equivalent degree, while further professional qualification or study .e.g. CPA, CFA, CMA, or Master’s Degree will be an advantage

• Knowledge of a range of financial products and markets will be expected from you in this role, while knowledge of US-GAAP/IAS is beneficial.

• Strong competencies in investigation, problem resolution and detail intensiveness

• Possess excellent communication skills and ability to confidently interact with a diverse set of stakeholders, as well as a change mindset- as Deutsche Bank embarks on a multi-year program to transform its strategic architecture and improve its processes.

• Experience in automation, and using programming languages such as Visual Basic for Applications, Visual Basic, Python, Tableau and Alteryx will be an advantage.

• 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

About us and our teams

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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