Senior Business Partner Origination & Advisory (m/f/x) Anti-Financial Crime

Position Overview

Deutsche Bank (DB) benefits from having a highly experienced and dedicated Anti Financial Crime (AFC) function, which performs a crucial role in keeping DBs business operations and global financial services clean from financial crime while serving the interests of the bank and society.
In order to combat financial crime effectively and respond to challenges in a flexible manner, AFC has a matrix structure combining regional, business line and global functional coverage in our core areas of Anti-Money Laundering , Sanctions & Embargoes , Anti-Fraud, Bribery & Corruption , Investigations & Intelligence , Monitoring & Screening, and Risk Assessment . Part of our commitment is to strengthen a strong collaboration with all business lines and support functions within our bank.

What AFC will do for you
AFC helps Deutsche Bank generate long-term trust and add value for our clients, staff and society and provide challenging opportunities for you to learn, contribute and benefit from your journey with us. We foster an open and inclusive team culture with the aim to build and maintain a healthy, engaged and well-supported diverse workforce that is equipped to do their best and enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace, whilst applying the highest standards of conduct to guarantee DB's success in fighting financial crime.

Overall Purpose of the Role:

The AFC (Anti Financial Crime) Business Partner, aligned to Origination and Advisory (O&A) (formerly known as Corporate Finance), is a critical role that helps the O&A department in its management of the financial crime risk. The Business Line AFC (BLAFC) Corporate Bank (CB) & Investment Bank (IB) Germany/EMEA unit has, as its primary role, responsibility for supporting the CB & IB business and operations comply with laws, regulations, rules, expectations of regulators, the standards of self-regulatory organizations, and codes of conduct/ethics in connection with the Bank's regulated activities.

Your key responsibilities (non-exhaustive):

• You are responsible to provide senior advisory and guidance to the O&A business with regards to AFC topics, in particular know-your-customer and money laundering-related topics
• You act as senior AFC Germany point of contact and escalation for the O&A business and coordinate risk assessments of other AFC functions (eg. Anti-Fraud Bribery & Corruption and Sanctions & Embargoes)
• You independently review and assess urgent Escalations on possible new/existing O&A clients, products, transactions that present Financial Crime Risk for the Investment Bank in Germany.
• You review team members' risk assessment and sign-off on Escalations and AFC no-objection statements.
• You work in continuous communication and exchange with the local, regional and global AFC network, the business units, product teams and KYC operations as well as with other infrastructure teams (compliance, legal department, divisional control unit, etc.).
• You participate as AFC Subject Matter Expert in various working groups initiated by AFC and O&A Business.

Your skills and experiences:

• You will have a minimum of 8 years of practice and relevant experience in AML/AFC/Financial Crime Compliance in a major financial institution (preferably international)
• You will have a strong understanding of international AML rules and regulations (German AML Act, EU AML Directives, etc.)
• You will be experienced in providing financial crime advisory services particularly in assessing client risk exposures to senior business and AFC stakeholders
• You will have previous experience in coordinating members of a team (highly preferable)
• You will be able to communicate positively, effectively, and efficiently with stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• You will have strategic and collaborative problem solving and proven analytical skills
• You will be able to work autonomously and execute projects with limited supervision; proactive and self-motivated

What we will offer you:

As the benefits may vary marginally from location to location, it is advisable to use the link to our career page:
https://careers.db.com/explore-the-bank/working-environment/benefits-wellbeing/

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Stefanie Schumann.

Contact: Stefanie Schumann: +49(69)910- 42578

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