Business Manager – Fixed Income & Currencies - Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Business Manager – Fixed Income & Currencies

Corporate Title Vice President

Location Jacksonville, FL

Overview

You will be a member of Deutsche Bank’s Fixed Income & Currencies (FIC) Chief Operating Officer (COO) / Business Management team in New York.

FIC comprises Trading, Financing and Sales / Coverage units. FIC Americas Trading includes business units such as Global Rates, Global Foreign Exchange, Global Emerging Markets and Credit Trading. Financing includes business units such as Commercial Real Estate, Asset Backed Securities, and Private Credit & Infrastructure.

The FIC Americas COO team is responsible for driving the FIC operating model and operating activity within the region, in addition to the formulation, enablement and implementation of FIC Americas strategy.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift, and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Support all aspects of the day-to-day activities for one or more FIC Americas business units; drive and support transformation, remediation and change management activities across business growth initiatives as well as financial risk / non-financial risk domains; support business planning and monitoring, including performance monitoring, year-end planning, cost initiatives, budget-to-actuals, etc.; understand and partner with key stakeholders on competitive benchmarking analysis and presentations, including market share, market trends and dynamics, and business strategy; understand the Firm’s capital environment, as well as relevant business limits and utilization metrics; navigate capital considerations in connection with business initiatives and operations

• Prepare and deliver presentations covering all aspects of business performance, strategy, risk profile and operating metrics; utilize analytical tools and soft skills to problem solve and influence across the full spectrum of business challenges; identify process improvement opportunities; drive and support process improvement initiatives

• Participate in governance fora as a representative of the Business; work closely with Regulators, Group Audit, Compliance Testing, etc. in connection with internal or external exams, testing or other inquiries; react under pressure in real-time to manage and help the Business navigate crisis events or other financial / non-financial risk events; engage on Know Your Customer and other Client Onboarding matters where needed, in parallel with broader client perimeter growth or reduction initiatives aligned with business strategy; maintain understanding of the Business’s client perimeter

• Continuously monitor and seek to enhance the Business’s operational resilience profile through partnership with Regional Management, Technology, Facilities, Third Party Risk Management, Non-Financial Risk Management, Compliance, Facilities, and other functions; manage business headcount and headcount targets in context of business strategy

• Drive New Product Approvals (NPAs) where applicable by setting up the NPA and coordinating with stakeholders to understand and address key risk areas and other considerations

• In partnership with relevant business heads, formulate, enable and implement FIC Americas business strategy; partner with Finance to understand business financial performance and key metrics; utilize this understanding for broader business enablement; partner with Business Control Unit, Divisional Control Office and second line / infrastructure function colleagues to perform risk assessment and monitoring of non-financial risks, as well as manage and remediate the Business’s portfolio of findings (including regulatory findings, self-identified issues, Group Audit findings and Compliance findings); partner with Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime, Legal and other functions to anticipate and respond to regulatory inquiries or requests, including participation in regulator meetings; partner with Human Resources on personnel matters; partner with business heads and other key stakeholders regarding the Business’s People Agenda, as well as Diversity Equity and Inclusion agenda; partner with Operations on middle and back office process enhancement opportunities; address re