Location
Madrid | Spain
Job description
Position Overview
Deutsche Bank (DB) is committed to the highest standards of control in the areas of Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), which covers Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions and Embargoes (S&E), and Anti-Fraud Bribery and Corruption (AFBC). The Management and all employees are required to adhere to these standards to protect DB and our reputation from those who intend to use our products and services for money laundering, bribery, corruption, fraud, market abuse and/or terrorist financing purposes. The AFC Department is accountable for protecting DB from financial and reputational losses incurred by financial crimes by assessing, controlling and mitigating risks. The Compliance Testing & Assurance (CT&A) department promotes and enforces compliance with the law, drives a culture of compliance and ethical conduct in the Bank. We do this by:
- developing and maintaining an open and transparent dialogue with regulators;
- providing timely, risk-based guidance, support and challenge to internal stakeholders;
- identifying, assessing, mitigating, monitoring and reporting on compliance and AFC risks;
- attracting, developing and retaining professionals who work together to deliver superior performance.
Overview
AFC Testing is a core component of the Control Testing and Assurance (CT&A) team. It provides assurance to the Management Board, Global Head of AFC and key stakeholders as to the adequacy of the design and/or operating effectiveness of the control framework to manage the Bank’s financial crime risks.
CT&A performs risk based testing across all businesses in Spain. The business divisions that are present in Spain include International Private Bank, Corporate Bank, Investment Bank, and DWS.
Where CT&A identifies issues, it advises on the appropriateness of remedial actions to improve the business and function control environments to manage financial crime risks and tracks the closure of the remedial actions accordingly.
The primary focus of the role is on AFC Testing. However, the person may be required to perform other assurance activities, including AFC Quality Assurance (QA), depending on the local needs and requirements. AFC QA is a risk-focused, sampled-based QA to independently assess whether processes to manage financial crime risks in the first and second lines of defence operate effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist the Team Lead with defining the annual AFC Testing plan for all business divisions in Spain to ensure the right risks are covered and in line with the global methodology.
- Conduct testing to enable successful delivery of the annual plan to the deadlines agreed and the standards defined in the global framework.
- Document and communicate testing results using high quality reports.
- Agree issues and remediation actions with the business and track them to completion. Review and validate actions/issues closure.
- Update the relevant tracking system with timely and accurate information on the reviews and their progress.
- Support continuous enhancement of the testing programme by identifying improvements and implementing them, while ensuring the programme remains aligned to the global framework.
- Produce high quality management information (MI) on the reviews and the findings identified to enable read-across (e.g. with other countries or divisions).
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels and working relationships with relevant stakeholders in the business and other control functions.
- Liaise with the wider Business Line AFC organisation and other control functions (e.g. DCO, BCU, NFRM, Internal Audit, COO, Risk, etc.) to ensure a coordinated approach and effective resolution of issues.
- Represent AFC Testing at relevant governance forums as appropriate.
- Support and perform AFC QA assessment (as and when needed) in accordance with the global methodology and quality standards.
You will have:
- A university degree or other closely related professional qualification.
- Substantial experience gained from AFC, Compliance, Audit, Risk or other type of regulatory background within the financial services industry.
- Experience on assessing and/or testing the design and operating effectiveness of AFC frameworks, including investigation activities. Good understanding of financial crime risks and internal controls.
- Good understanding and application of relevant AFC regulation and legislation.
- ACAMS certification.
- Good knowledge of banking/financial markets business environment and products (with a focus on retail banking).
- Excellent analytical skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Excellent writing skills, including the ability to describe complex issues clearly and succinctly in ways that are easily understandable by others.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to communicate effectively across all three lines of defence and technical team members. An ability to align multiple stakeholders towards a common goal.
- Language skills: fluent in English and Spanish.
You will be:
- Structured and organised in approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail – ability to ensure high quality and consistency in the deliverables produced.
- Results orientated and able to work independently and accurately in a fast paced environment within tight deadlines while prioritising workload with minimal supervision.
- Proactive – will seek to find the right solution and options to issues within and outside their specific remit, without being prompted and within an appropriate matrix management framework.
- Assertive and engaging and able to quickly build and maintain effective working relationships.
- Positive, collaborative and flexible and able to operate successfully in a constantly changing environment.
Deutsche Bank is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability.
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