Job Description

The Corporate Derivatives Desk (CDD) is a central product unit within Global Rates Strategy, responsible for optimising capital and overall strategy for the corporate franchise. You will play a crucial supporting role in ensuring efficient trade screening, robust record-keeping, and insightful profitability and Risk-Weighted Assets (RWA) management, contributing to the CDD's objectives of enhancing revenues sustainably with key focus on client strategy and capital optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist in screening new transactions to ensure alignment with client strategy and defined return hurdles and capital efficiency targets.
  • Support the CDD in taking into account future regulation, day-1 policy, and Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) charges during the pricing process.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Structuring teams on pricing requests, ensuring all relevant information is captured and analyse the transaction profitability and overall returns at both client and portfolio levels.
  • Develop Front Office use cases where AI can improve maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all corporate derivatives transactions.
  • Assist in tracking and documenting decisions related to client documentation, and capital deployment.
  • Develop Front Office use cases where AI can improve trading, risk management and franchise activities.

About Us

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

What we’ll offer you

  • Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
  • Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
  • 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
  • Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
  • A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
  • The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.
  • Training and development to help you excel in your career.
  • Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities e.g. Coaching and support from experts in your team.
  • A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.

Your skills and experience

  • Educated to degree level (preferably in Finance, Economics, Quantitative Methods or a related discipline) or equivalent qualification and/or work experience.
  • Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with various internal stakeholders.
  • Understanding of financial markets, derivatives products.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks effectively.
  • Familiarity with regulatory frameworks impacting financial products is a plus.
Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank