Anti-Financial Crime; AFC) Operations Control Governance & Conformance

Job Title Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Operations Control Governance & Conformance

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

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.

You will support in strengthening the control environment across AFC Operations by driving governance, conformance, audit readiness, issue remediation oversight and control effectiveness activities. The role will provide independent challenge, transparency and coordination across operational teams, helping ensure regulatory, policy and risk management expectations are consistently met while enabling sustainable operational improvement.

• 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 Bike4
  
  Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year

• Support the Control Governance & Conformance capability in defining, embedding and maintaining the AFC Operations control strategy and governance framework.
• Support coordination of conformance reviews, audit and regulatory activities, providing consistent oversight across AFC Operations.
• Provide independent challenge on control design and effectiveness, operational risks, issues, root causes and remediation priorities.
• Establish management information, metrics and reporting that provide transparent views of control health, emerging risks and remediation delivery.
• Facilitate governance forums covering audit actions, regulatory commitments, control issues and evidence of sustainable closure.
• Partner together with capability leads and subject‑matter experts to strengthen control execution, documentation, evidence management, accountability and continuous improvement.

• Strong experience within Risk, Controls, Governance, Audit, Compliance or Financial Crime functions in financial services.
• Practical experience overseeing operational control frameworks, control effectiveness assessments and conformance activities.
• Proven track record coordinating audit, regulatory review, issue management and sustainable remediation in a highly regulated environment.
• Ability to provide independent challenge, identify control weaknesses and risk themes, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and root‑cause assessment skills, with experience producing management information, assurance reporting and control‑health assessments.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to operate effectively across complex, global organisations.

• A culture…