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Deutsche Bank

Finances businesses and manages personal wealth

Finance Control Oversight, Vice President - Finance Control Oversight

Internal Audit & ControlsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Approximately 12–15 years of relevant experience in operational risk, financial reporting risk, controls, audit, or governance within banking or financial services.
  • Strong understanding of financial reporting, disclosures, International Financial Reporting Standards, and related accounting processes.
  • Strong knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley, Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, and risk and control frameworks.
  • Good understanding of banking products, investment banking processes, and finance control environments.
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to identify errors, gaps, redundancies, and control weaknesses.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to articulate complex matters succinctly and prepare materials for senior management.
  • Ability to engage, challenge, and influence senior stakeholders across global teams; work independently and collaboratively; manage multiple priorities; and deliver within deadlines.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and artificial intelligence tools.
  • Demonstrated commitment to continuous process improvement and a positive risk management culture.
  • Ability to leverage artificial intelligence tools to enhance productivity and optimize workflows to solve business problems, applying critical judgment for responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Chief Financial Officer teams to identify, assess, and remediate risks impacting Internal Controls over Financial Reporting within the Sarbanes-Oxley framework.
  • Assess financial reporting errors, operational loss events, and control failures to determine root cause, lessons learned, read-across impact, and required remediation actions.
  • Perform scenario analysis and targeted reviews to identify potential control gaps, emerging risks, or weaknesses in the existing control framework.
  • Evaluate the impact of changes in financial reporting processes, systems, or control frameworks and ensure appropriate risk coverage.
  • Monitor financial reporting risk through key risk indicators, metrics, and reporting to determine whether risks remain within appetite tolerance.
  • Prepare communications, presentations, and reporting packs for senior stakeholders, clearly articulating key risks, themes, and actions.
  • Assess the impact of issues, findings, and events on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, ensuring appropriate escalation, ownership, and closure.
  • Provide independent oversight, review, challenge, and guidance on the effectiveness of the Internal Control over Financial Reporting framework, including Sarbanes-Oxley governance, control design, operating effectiveness, and remediation of control gaps.
  • Support annual Sarbanes-Oxley scoping and risk appetite threshold assessments for in-scope Financial Statement Item, Legal Entity, and Universal Business Reference combinations.
  • Manage and review Sarbanes-Oxley key control data in dbMonitor, including control setup, amendments, deletion requests, user role updates, performer and tester assignments, and workflow owner changes; monitor and remediate dbMonitor data quality issues.
  • Govern annual design certification responses, follow up on unfavorable responses, confirm remediation plans, and ensure control descriptions, coverage, supporting reconciliations, data feeds, personnel changes, applications, vendors, and end-user developed applications are appropriately assessed.
  • Prepare and support Design and Operating Effectiveness assessments, including review of control failures, Sarbanes-Oxley failures, deficiencies, assurance results, control testing outcomes, and management responses.
  • Assess findings, operational events, timing events under SAB 108, accounting errors, Sarbanes-Oxley failures, and other control gaps for Internal Controls over Financial Reporting relevance and Sarbanes-Oxley impact.
  • Perform root cause analysis, lessons learned, read-across assessment, deficiency evaluation, and impact assessment to determine whether matters indicate a control deficiency, significant deficiency, or potential material weakness.
  • Conduct or support deep dives and targeted reviews of high-risk processes to assess end-to-end process design, control coverage, minimum control standards, documentation quality, and remediation requirements.
  • Lead or support annual Sarbanes-Oxley framework training, including preparation of training materials, participant tracking, and follow-up queries.
  • Support Form 20-F Senior Officer Certification activities, including preparation of responsibility matrices, certification tracking, Workiva process coordination, sign-off monitoring, and escalation of overdue certifications.
  • Support Payment Gold Standard control inventory recertification by coordinating with Finance owners, validating completeness of applications and control assessments, obtaining attestations, and addressing remediation queries.
  • Monitor SOC 1 activities, including review of Sarbanes-Oxley-relevant vendor submissions, Controls Assessment Questionnaires, bridge letters, exception handling, alternative procedures, and control gap assessments to ensure completeness, consistency, timely escalation, and appropriate Sarbanes-Oxley impact assessment.
  • Prepare, review, and respond to stakeholder communications relating to Sarbanes-Oxley control queries, dbMonitor access or change requests, control ownership, tester and performer assignments, policy interpretation, and control remediation evidence.
  • Contribute to global and local control initiatives, including control oversight programs and risk-focused projects.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and stronger governance across Finance Control Oversight activities.

About the Company

Deutsche Bank

Finances businesses and manages personal wealth

Deutsche Bank finances companies, governments and individuals through a global banking network rooted in Germany and spanning major financial markets. Its investment bank focuses on bonds and currencies, alongside advice on mergers and raising capital, while its private bank handles household banking and wealth management. Businesses use its cash management, trade finance and lending services to move money and fund operations, and the group manages investment funds through DWS. It earns money from loan interest, transaction and investment fees, and trading activity. Deutsche Bank traces its founding to 1870 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Frankfurt, Germany
Founded
1870

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