Project & Change Lead – Business Analyst/Project Manager, AVP

Overview

Project and change lead (AVP) for the Traded Products workstream of Deutsche Bank's Credit Risk Management Change Team, responsible for analysis and end-to-end delivery of change initiatives covering Counterparty Credit Risk, Traded Products, Settlement Risk and Credit Risk infrastructure transformation.

What you'll do

• Be responsible and accountable for delivering agreed project outputs to agreed time and quality parameters within the agreed scope.
• Manage and coordinate the activity of Credit SMEs, technical experts and analysts to ensure tasks are performed that result in the project deliverable.
• Analyse requirements and requests from the business, and identify and assess change needs.
• Capture and document requirements, analyse the impact of changes and support the business through the implementation process.
• Ensure business requirements are aligned with strategic objectives, business architecture, information technology and product roadmap.
• Drive communication between business divisions and solution providers for identifying, implementing and maintaining solutions.
• Prepare or support presentations for senior management to drive decisions on process design, project timelines and prioritisation of deliveries.
• Create and maintain strong relationships with teams across the bank, programme sponsors and other stakeholders.

What you'll need

• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Technology, Engineering or comparable qualification.
• 6-8 years of relevant professional experience in the financial industry or risk management, preferably in credit risk functions.
• Project management, preferably in Agile transformation methodology.
• Experience working on large-scale projects including business adoption and regulatory approval.
• Demonstrable experience supporting or managing projects with complex solutions.
• Experience as a business analyst driving technology change in the financial services industry.
• Knowledge of credit risk management processes.
• Ability to assess and mitigate programme risks and dependencies.
• Ability to work across multiple teams for programme execution, including large-scale regulatory and transformation programmes.
• Strong analytical skills and clear problem solving, with the ability to manipulate large amounts of data.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including senior management and team members.
• Ability to challenge sponsors and stakeholders to deliver efficiencies and cross-platform standards.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and matrix organisations, and to work well under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and optimise workflows, applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Nice to have

• Ability to understand IT functionality and systems, financial products, international financial markets and regulatory requirements for the credit risk management function.
• Ability to understand credit policies and processes and relate them to supporting business and technology architecture, and vice versa.
• Working knowledge of credit concepts: credit ratings, PD, LGD, EAD, ECL, expected loss, credit loss provisioning; regulatory concepts CRR and Basel II, III and IV; credit model knowledge.
• Understanding of credit appraisals, limit setting and credit products.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.