About the Role
As an Associate Director in the Counterparty Credit Risk Analysis and Measurement team, you will be responsible for derivative credit sizing, in-depth analysis of counterparty risk profiles, and supporting bespoke transactions and ad hoc requests. You will also lead efforts to streamline and automate oversight processes, measure exposures for new and existing products, and coordinate development and coding efforts.
Responsibilities
- Conduct credit sizings and ad-hoc credit event analysis.
- Pro-actively investigate risks, perform derivative credit sizings and counterparty deep dives to provide clear and comprehensive analysis to senior management on risk trends and concerns.
- Analyze key trading strategies and products to ensure they are in line with risk tolerance and objectives.
- Review significant transactions to help facilitate businesses while ensuring proper risk controls.
- Work with GRM Credit team to help review the credit risk appetite and help facilitate business activities while ensuring proper risk controls.
- Investigate issues in the counterparty credit risk capturing and reporting processes and ensure the accuracy of results.
- Develop and code tools to automate and standardize risk measures into official credit risk engines and credit risk monitoring systems.
- Assess New Business Initiatives from Counterparty Risk Perspective and participate in the Specific and general wrong-way-risk analysis.
- Liaise with GRM Enterprise Risk and Group Risk Analytics Teams to ensure risk models are calibrated and vetted appropriately.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience at a financial institution in a quantitative Risk Control function such as market or credit risk, with an understanding of capital markets trading products and related credit risk concepts.
- Master’s degree in a relevant subject such as Finance, Economics, or other quantitative discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Solid verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven organizational skills, with the ability to meet strict deadlines.
- FRM, PRMIA, or CFA (Nice-to-have).
- Good command and hands on experience with Excel, Python, VBA programming, SQL or equivalent programming languages (Nice-to-have).
- Hands-on experience developing and implementing agentic AI solutions and evaluating agent performance to solve business-critical problems (Nice-to-have).
Skills
- Business Data Analysis
- Credit Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Database Queries
- Data Visualization
- Decision Making
- Operational Delivery
- Quantitative Methods
- Risk Management
- Excel
- Python
- VBA programming
- SQL
Location
- ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
- Toronto
- Canada
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Master’s degree
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to do challenging work
- Flexible work/life balance options
About the Company
- At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
- We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
- Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
- RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
