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Investment Bank - FIC Business Manager - Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank

Sales & Business Development
Tokyo, Japan · Hills, IA, USA · Japan · Tower, MN, USA · Tokyo, Japan
Posted on Aug 28, 2025

Job Description:

Details of the Division and Team:

Business management of FIC sales and trading in Japan. Supporting senior business managers in enabling business, managing risk and control, ensuring regulatory compliance, performing cost control, delivering efficiency improvement, and managing various projects across front to back.

What we will offer you:

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.

You can expect:

  • Corporate Group Insurance – premium borne by company
  • Annual health checkup – cost borne by company (once a year; conditions apply)
  • Flexible Work Arrangements – various ways to work, to fit employees’ needs
  • Child care and elderly care benefits – corporate discount through designated child care & elderly care vendors
  • EAP – free and confidential counseling, online work-life resources
  • Employee networks – Diversity, volunteering, sports, family care - various activities to participate
  • Special leaves entitlement

Your key responsibilities:

  • Business enablement. Facilitate new product approval, design and deliver process changes to enable new business and product.
  • Risk & control. Coordinate and execute Level 1 controls at first line of defense. Partner with supporting functions to identify, escalate and mitigate operational risks through front to back. Perform risk mitigation such as closure of audit issue, incident management, risk assessment, BCP coordination, etc.
  • Regulatory compliance. Partner with Compliance to assess impact of regulatory changes and deliver changes to comply with new regulation. Handle regulatory queries and lead response from business during regulatory inspection.
  • Cost control. Understand and formulate cost budget. Monitor spending against budget. Identify and deliver cost reduction initiatives.
  • Efficiency improvement. Design and deliver operational process improvement partnering with Operations, Compliance, Business Control Unit, regional Business Management in Singapore, etc. Optimize process and resource of DB Center and business administrative function.
  • Project management. Partner with Strats, Finance, Risk & Technology to deliver local and global initiatives for front to back. Define solution, run governance forums at both the working level and senior level across front to back ensuring appropriate coordination and escalation of issues.

Your skills and experience:

  • 5+ years of experience in financial industry
  • A good understanding of FIC products
  • An understanding of Risk Architecture, T-zero process or T+1 P&L process
  • An understanding of global and local regulation around FIC sales and trading
  • Ability to present and communicate to both senior and working levels of the organization
  • Run meetings at different levels of the organization and across functions
  • Have a problem solving mindset to solution problems for the business and wider organization
  • A history of leading programs or pieces of works across the organization
  • JSDA class 1 sales representative qualification or equivalent knowledge
  • Fluent in both Japanese and English
  • Good communication and influencing skills
  • A team player willing to help-out where required

How we’ll support you:

  • Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
  • Coaching and support from experts in your team
  • A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
  • A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
  • Training and development to help you excel in your career

About us and our teams:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank & Diversity

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.