Third-Party Engagement Risk Lead, VP

• The Global Real Estate (GRE) Divisions primary objective is to manage the building real estate portfolio of Deutsche Bank, inclusive of procurement, operations, and strategic planning. GRE has three key functions to support the delivery of these objectives, including Service Delivery Management.
• As the Third-Party Engagement Risk (TPER) Lead, you will part of the GRE Service Delivery Governance, Risk and Control Embedded Risk Team (ERT) supporting Service Delivery Managers (SDMs) in navigating the third-party service and application risk assessment programme, developing a keen understanding of key policies and procedures, tracking the service engagement and application Divisional portfolio and producing senior management MI reporting.
• You will be responsible for managing a team of three, including Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and application Information Security Officer (ISO) specialists responsible for supporting the SDMs and associated Divisional risk related objectives.

Your key responsibilities

• Working with internal stakeholders (SDMs, central teams, Control Functions, etc.) and external suppliers to manage the Service Line response to the Risk Assessment Programme relevant to third-party services and applications (this includes actively influencing the requirement for these and managing the requests generated by the central team(s)).
• Supporting SDMs and suppliers with any remediation requirements in the third-party services and application space.
• Developing a keen understanding of key policies & procedures with which SDMs need to comply.
• Supporting SDMs in audit activity and responding to third-party service/application risk relevant audit findings for their respective workstreams.
• Explaining the relevant regulatory/risk requirements to the SDM stakeholders in an effective and easy to understand manner.
• Acting as a key contact to central teams, procurement functions and senior management.
• Producing MI Reporting at Divisional level on a monthly basis
• Leading/supporting third-party services and application relevant change programmes

Your skills and experience

• Ability to manage multi-task assignments and prioritise efficiently with limited oversight and resilience.
• Performing analysis, planning & project management.
• Working in the Financial Services/Risk Management industry
• Developing and managing improvement processes and tools.
• Ability to perform root cause analyses to support processes by which operational incidents are appropriately collected, assigned, reviewed and where relevant mitigation completed.
• Track record of relationship building and stakeholder management experience and working in international environments