Business Management - Associate (all genders)

Job Description

We are looking for someone who is intellectually curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and holds themselves to an exceptionally high bar for quality.

Role Overview

As a Business Management Associate in Consumer Banking Germany, you will help run the business by driving governance, performance monitoring, and cost discipline while translating strategy into actionable plans. You’ll work closely with leadership and partners across finance, risk, legal, compliance, controls, technology, and data to coordinate decisions and execution. You’ll bring structure to ambiguity, build high‑quality reporting and narratives, and help the team focus on outcomes that matter. The role is based in Berlin, Germany, and reports into the CFO organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain overall business governance. Drive reporting, escalation, and committee obligations across the business and the legal entity ensuring strategic updates and decision requests flow through a structured cadence with clear documentation. Lead local management routines including the leadership team meeting and all‑hands. Organize and facilitate offsites, ensuring alignment and collaboration across functions.
• Own the end‑to‑end performance monitoring cadence, provide stewardship for the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework for the business.
• Drive detailed cost reporting review to ensure spending discipline.
• Partner with various teams on key business initiatives to shape business cases and informed decision‑making.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Relevant experience in business management, strategy, finance, or a relevant domain within financial services or technology.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to build business cases and cost frameworks, understand a broad set of business KPIs and carry root‑cause analyses to identify and deliver on optimization opportunities.
• Experience preparing executive‑level reporting packs and performance dashboards with clear narratives and insights.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver against tight deadlines with high standards of quality and accuracy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information for senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualization tools (e.g., Looker or equivalent).

Equal Opportunity Statement

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.