About the Role
The Group Risk Management (GRM) Market Risk group monitors, controls, and communicates market risk, ensuring compliance with risk management policies. The new hire will join the GRM team responsible for market risk oversight of RBC’s Leveraged Finance and Alternative Finance businesses in New York, covering leveraged loan and high yield underwriting.
Responsibilities
- Provide risk oversight for leveraged loans and HY corporates within Global Investment Banking’s Leveraged Finance businesses.
- Aid in the management of the market risk reporting process and ensure the accuracy of key risk measurements.
- Develop the risk infrastructure and processes used for day-to-day risk management.
- Analyze key trading strategies and products to ensure alignment with RBC’s risk tolerance and objectives.
- Review significant transactions to support the Business and senior GRM approvals, ensuring proper risk controls.
- Collaborate with regulatory and technology groups to meet strategic infrastructure goals and comply with key regulatory requirements including FRTB, Volcker, and CCAR.
- Work with Trading and Investment Banking to ensure cohesion on key risk issues: systems, limits, risk management.
- Investigate risks to provide value-added insight and analysis to senior management on risk trends and concerns.
- Play a lead role in enhancing GRM on desk risk systems.
- Perform data analysis of large quantities of data, including the ability to draw conclusions.
Requirements
- Undergraduate or master’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or other quantitative discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in risk management, trading, finance, or a related field.
- Knowledge of financial markets demonstrating an interest in the subject matter.
- Must be self-motivated, highly curious and inquisitive, and capable of working with minimal direction.
- Very strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to handle a significant and diverse workload in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize projects and workload.
- Previous experience in corporate credit, structured credit, or leveraged finance is a plus.
- Analytical approach to problem solving, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
- Strong technical skills, including exposure to Python, VBA, SQL, or Tableau.
Skills
- Python
- VBA
- SQL
- Tableau
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Undergraduate or master’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or other quantitative discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000-$190,000
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Flexible benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Commissions
- Stock where applicable
- Leaders who support development through coaching and managing opportunities
- 401(k) program with company-matching contributions
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Paid time-off plan
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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
