Vice President - Strategy & Transformation

Clearstream Fund Centre S.A., Cork Branch • Cork

Build the future of financial markets. Build yours.

Ready to make a real impact in the financial industry? At Deutsche Börse Group, we'll empower you to grow your career in a supportive and inclusive environment. With our unique business model, driven by 16,000 colleagues around the globe, we actively shape the future of financial markets. Join our One Global Team!

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Who we are

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. With our products and services, we ensure that capital markets are fair, transparent, reliable, and stable. Together, we develop state-of-the-art IT solutions and offer our IT systems all over the world. Play a key role in our mission: to create trust in the markets of today and tomorrow.

Build the future of financial markets. Build yours.

Ready to make a real impact in the financial industry? At Deutsche Börse Group, we'll empower you to grow your career in a supportive and inclusive environment. With our unique business model, driven by 16,000 colleagues around the globe, we actively shape the future of financial markets. Join our One Global Team!

Want to learn more?

Who we are

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. With our products and services, we ensure that capital markets are fair, transparent, reliable, and stable. Together, we develop state-of-the-art IT solutions and offer our IT systems all over the world.

Within the Deutsche Börse Group, Clearstream is an international central securities depository (ICSD). It provides post-trade infrastructure and securities services for the international market and 59 domestic markets worldwide, with customers in 110 countries.

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Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

Your Area of Work

As a Strategy & Transformation expert you will partner closely with senior management to shape and execute strategic priorities across Deutsche Börse's Post Trading business. You will support the design and implementation of operating model enhancements, transformation initiatives, performance improvement programs, and operational excellence initiatives, helping ensure sustainable growth and efficient delivery.

Based in Cork, you will act as a trusted advisor to Operations leadership and work closely with Technology, Finance, Risk & Compliance, and business stakeholders. You will help translate strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps, establish effective governance structures, and drive disciplined execution of key initiatives across the organization.

In addition, you may contribute to large-scale transformation and transaction-related initiatives as required, supporting analysis, planning, and execution management across complex cross-functional programs.

Your Responsibilities

Operational Strategy & Transformation: Support the definition and execution of strategic priorities across Operations, translating long-term objectives into actionable initiatives and implementation roadmaps.
Programme & Initiative Delivery: Establish and lead structured delivery frameworks for high-priority operational and transformation initiatives, including governance setup, planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, and risk management.
Operating Model Development: Contribute to the development and evolution of target operating models (TOM), organisational structures, and business processes to improve efficiency, scalability, and service quality across Operations.
Performance & Value Steering: Develop transparent performance tracking and value measurement approaches, including KPI frameworks, benefits tracking, cost optimisation initiatives, and executive reporting.
Stakeholder Management & Governance: Build strong relationships across Operations, Technology, Finance, Risk & Compliance, and business leadership. Facilitate decision-making processes and provide concise updates to senior management and governance forums.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance controls, increase automation, and improve operational effectiveness across the organisation.
Strategic Analysis & Decision Support: Conduct analyses on market developments, industry trends, competitive dynamics, and strategic opportunities, translating findings into recommendations for senior management.
Transformation Support: Contribute to large-scale transformation and strategic initiatives, including transaction-related projects where required, supporting planning, execution, and value realization activities.

Your Profile

Master’s degree (or PhD) from a top-tier university in business, economics, finance, engineering, or a quantitative field; outstanding academic track record.
5+ years of relevant experience, ideally combining top-tier strategy consulting or Big 4 advisory experience with a corporate role leading complex transformation, strategic change, operational improvement, or large-scale programme delivery in financial services.
Deep operational understanding: proven hands-on experience working with or within Operations and/or IT functions in a capital markets, asset servicing, or fund services environment. Familiarity with post-trade processes (order routing, settlement, reconciliation, custody, corporate actions) is a strong plus.
Proven track record running multi-workstream execution/governance (PMO/Transformation Office style), including planning, dependency management, RAID, executive reporting, and decision facilitation.
Strong strategic and financial analytics: business cases, value/benefits tracking, prioritization, and performance steering; excellent PowerPoint/Excel skills.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills across seniority levels; ability to operate under pressure with high autonomy and sound judgment.
High discretion and integrity when handling sensitive strategic and business-critical topics
Fluent English required, German and/or French and/or Spanish is a strong plus.

Why Deutsche Börse Group?

We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can reach their full potential. Our standards go far beyond simply matching candidates with the right position.

Mobility

We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

Work environment

Collaboration, communication, or deep focus – in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

Health and wellbeing

We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

Financial stability

We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

Hybrid work

Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.

Flexible working hours

We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.

Internationality

Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us means collaborating with like-minded colleagues across over 60 locations from more than 100 nations.