Deutsche Bank - Change Programme Director - Client Data Management

Client Data Management (CDM) is responsible for provision of operational support and management of Party (Client), to facilitate KYC and enable client business and trading relationships and associated downstream processes including Regulatory and Tax obligations. CDM is driving the Group Party Data Strategy across CIB, the key elements of this strategy are:

- Providing a single, authorized source of Party (cRDS) to all areas across Corporate and Investment Bank, that contains accurate and complete Party & Instrument Data with full coverage

- Distributing the common Party data elements/attributes across the organization to ensure a single identifier is used front-to-back and there is consistency, alignment and common usage of Party data attributes front-to-back

- Identify and align common Parties, and their associated common attributes, across the Group (Corporate Bank, Investment Bank, Capital Release Unit and Private Bank)

Role Description:

- Project Management & Change Execution is responsible for delivery of the value and strategic outcomes of their Change BoW that ensures successful transition into the organization's goals, processes, and technologies. Adopting values and principles that follow agreed processes and practices to allow teams to continually improve their performance. Work includes:

- Create and align a sustainable change vision for the delivery function - partnering with the Business & Infrastructure areas, building a deep understanding and/or leveraging SME knowledge to have a clear understanding of the business outcomes articulate requirements, source and document details on process, metrics, and data in order to execute the change mandate

- Monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects/products, managing and reporting status of product roadmap and/or project status, RAID and financial information to support effective decision making

- Removing blockers to ensure the team is successful and working with end users to ensure successful adoption

- Developing project/product & change artefacts during the change lifecycle, e.g., scope, business case, communication, change management and / or training plans, materials and overseeing / monitoring the execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption of normal business operations

- Providing training/mentoring where applicable on various methodologies; including change management, agile, process re-engineering, robotics, project methodologies, and continuous deployment

Your key responsibilities

- Delivery of large-scale change in the Leadership of major multi-year investments (>euro 20m) which are:

- Global

- Cross-divisional Impacting all business divisions

- Cross-functional

- Responsibility for operational and technology change as well as senor liaison with front office, technology, KYC Operations and Client Data Operations

- Ownership of the key workstream management processes and artefacts:

- Roadmap

- Workstream-level plans

- Budgets & forecasts

- Issue and Risk identification, escalation, resolution

- Status reporting

- Bank-wide communications as necessary

- Audit and control responses

- Leadership of operating model design, technology designs, testing and implementation activities required to achieve the stated objectives

Your skills and experience

- 15+ years' experience in delivering complex change programs in global, preferably full-spectrum banking groups (retail, corporate, wholesale, investment banking)

- Track record in delivering in both direct and matrix environments

- Some experience in regulatory projects, preferably global/cross product

- Program management experience (>Euro 10m/100s of resources)

- Credibility with senior people (MD+)

- Articulate communicator - verbally and in writing; strong influencer

- Delivery-focused; preference for implementation over design

- Commercial acumen - business case driven, effective cost control/reduction focus

- Sound risk & control foundation

- Operations and Technology change delivery

- Leadership experience in a matrix environment

- Ability to motivate team and engage senior stakeholders