About the Role
As a Senior Manager on the Enterprise Asset-Liability Management Risk (ALM Risk) team, you will provide independent oversight and monitoring of risk quantification and mitigation activities. This role supports the Market Risk mandate by overseeing Corporate Treasury, Capital Markets Treasury, and other banking book business activities that expose the firm to market risks. You will contribute to a dynamic, collaborative environment, driving data-informed decisions and implementing innovative solutions to impact risk management outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Daily monitoring and reporting of market risk exposures against limits, escalating breaches.
- Enhance risk control processes to ensure metrics appropriately capture underlying market risk.
- Present analysis to support limit requests, connecting strategic objectives to risk implications.
- Prepare deep-dive analysis on risk exposures to inform senior management on key topics.
- Coordinate with other GRM regional teams to perform analysis, document business strategies, and calibrate limits.
- Provide market risk subject-matter expert input to working groups, forums, and committees.
- Implement reporting transformation, including development of end-to-end ETL processes and visualizations.
- Leverage agentic AI tools to design, implement, and optimize workflows for market risk management.
- Collaborate with BSLR Data Strategy team to develop internal data repositories and dashboards.
- Function as a key stakeholder partner to the first line of defense.
Requirements
- University degree with emphasis in finance, economics, computer science or a quantitative discipline.
- Strong understanding of fixed income, linear interest rate (IR) derivatives, repo, and FX products (pricing, cash flow profiles, discounting).
- Knowledge of market risk concepts (sensitivity measures, stress testing, IRRBB metrics) is required.
- More than 3 years of progressive experience in Risk Management, Capital Markets, Treasury, Product Control, and Finance, with a sound understanding of risk management frameworks.
- Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated expertise in leading projects, delivering results on time and within scope.
- Excellent communication skills with proven ability to simplify technical market risk concepts into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases.
- Familiarity with programming languages (Python and Visual Basic).
- Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code.
- A strong understanding of ETL processes and data management.
- MBA, MA or MS or equivalent with emphasis in finance, economics or a quantitative discipline (CFA, FRM or other related professional qualifications).
- Familiarity with Corporate Treasury and Capital Markets Treasury strategies.
- Proficiency in building visualization dashboards in Tableau.
- Understanding of hedge accounting and economic hedges.
- Familiarity with regulatory distinctions between Trading Book and Banking Book.
- Experience working with code repositories, version controlling, and management tools such as GitHub.
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Data Management
- Data Query
- Financial Derivatives
- Fixed Income Investments
- Investment Risk
- Market Risk Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Process Improvements
- Python (Programming Language)
- Risk Control
- Risk Management
- RiskMetrics
- Risk Mitigation
- Risk Reporting
- Scenario Analysis
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SQL
- ETL processes
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- Tableau
Location
- ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
- Toronto
- Canada
Work Type
- Full time
- 37.5 hours/week
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- More than 3 years of progressive experience
Education Level
- University degree with emphasis in finance, economics, computer science or a quantitative discipline
- MBA, MA or MS or equivalent with emphasis in finance, economics or a quantitative discipline
- CFA, FRM or other related professional qualifications
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Commissions
- Stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
About the Company
- We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.
- We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- 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.
