Trainee (m/d/f) Operations & Custodian – Custodian Control Services

Entry date 1 November 2025

Start your career at a bank where you can successfully shape your personal future and the future of our business partners. The DZ BANK is the second largest commercial bank in Germany, the leading institute of the Volksbanken Raiffeisen-banken, the central bank for around 700 German com­munity banks and has the holding function for the DZ BANK Group companies. We are a powerful and reliable employer who demands you with demanding tasks and advances you in your development. With space to realize innovative ideas with modern methods. With a trusted and prejudice-free working environment in which courageous transcendencies and approaches are evaluated. The one who believes in the strength of diversity and partnership, and where success is shared, is also happy with you.

The Operations & Storage Unit is responsible for the customer-oriented execution of capital market services for the DZ BANK's capital market areas and its customers, as well as the tasks of the depository for capital management companies. Our Department of Deposit Control Services takes over a central control function vis-à-vis management companies, which is enshrined in the Capital Investment Code (KAGB). Our tasks are varied and exciting, as we monitor both public and special funds – and in four dedicated teams in direct exchange with numerous internal and external process partners and customers. Immerse yourself in the life cycle of an investment fund by familiarising yourself with the central processes in the deposit business and accompanying fund events and changes. You take responsibility for fund price control, analyze the fair valuation of transactions and stocks and finally ensure compliance with legal and contractual investment limits by parameterizing the automatic control system. Examination and approving complex property and social transactions and an eye on the fund price determination for real estate funds. Drive forward the continuous optimization and automation of our processes and actively shape the future with the further development and implementation of new requirements in the fund accounting system. In your 12-month trainee program with an individual schedule, you will be working in the different units of the Department of Deposit Control Services. The location of your activity is Düsseldorf or Frankfurt am Main. You also have the opportunity to hospite in different interface units and thus gain a comprehensive insight.

You have a successfully completed master's degree in full-time (summary 2.5 or better), in the fields of economics or business informatics. If you can learn about accounting as well as regulatory issues or have chosen a finance focus in your studies, this is an advantage. You are interested in the further development of our IT-based processes, which must always adapt to the current legal framework. You can work in a targeted and customer-oriented team, as we are the main partner for internal and external customers around the storage business. You can express yourself in German and English (mind. C1) in a safe manner.

Perspective: You start with an indefinite contract and a salary of EUR 68,000 during and EUR 74,000 after the trainee program. Flexibility: We offer you sliding time and mobile work as well as 30 days holiday. Networking: You expect targeted onboarding and regular networking in the team of our trainees as well as joint training. Development: You receive mentorings for your own reflection, feedback discussions and training to support your personal, professional and methodological development. Sustainability: You will receive a BahnCard 50 with frequent travel in the trainee program (also for private use) and the possibility of using a ''JobRad''. Extras: You benefit from many attractive offers, such as financial relocation support for a change of residence to start the programme and many more: Further education Mobile work / sliding time Canteen / food supplement Cost of travel Occupational pension Health care Company events Mentoring JOBV1_EN