Director, 1B Governance & Controls, Corporate Treasury

What is the opportunity?

As a Director within the Corporate Treasury 1B Governance & Control team, the incumbent will lead and manage assigned aspects of the Corporate Treasury (CT) Operational Risk Management Program, including the identification and implementation of efficiencies, leveraging best practices from other RBC Functions etc.  The incumbent will also lead and participate in other control/risk-related projects, as necessary.  In particular, they will be responsible for facilitating the Risk and Control Self Assessment (RCSA) process within CT, ensuring adequate visibility (and remediation where necessary) of risks and controls across Treasury, regions and legal entities. The incumbent will build senior business and functional relationships, ensure business risk and control inventories are up to date and accurately represent current state risk profile (vs. appetite) and work with other operational risk stakeholders as necessary in the assessment of residual risk.

What you will do?

• Implementation of the RBC-wide Risk Registers and digitized RCSA.  This includes working with CT teams and support functions to build and maintain up-to-date risk registers, control inventories, ensure risk and control mappings are accurate, and reassess inherent and/or residual risk upon specific triggers, or as required

• Ensure RCSA process overall adheres to internal requirements, industry best standards/practice, while also ensuring it meets business needs as a mechanism to identify, assess and mitigate non-financial risk.
• Work with other internal stakeholders in an effort to centralize and standardize the RCSA process across Treasury consistent with CFO Group. This also includes working with Group Risk Management and other internal stakeholders to ensure alignment across practices, resolve process challenges and disputes.
• Maintain close working relationships with senior management, team managers and delegates, ensuring the RCSA facilitators maintain adequate awareness of the businesses they support.
• Work across CT teams and with control testing leads to ensure a two-way flow of information between all parties, ensuring risk registers are dynamically updated as events occur, or issues are raised.
• Proactively identify operational risk/control deficiencies in the business and assist in developing solutions.  Ensure information flow to related OpRisk and control testing teams.
• Manage components of the Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) assessment process, with an aim to enhance the existing process.
• Responsibilities associated with Operational Risk Events, Change Management/Project or other Risk Assessments, and other Governance/Reporting activities as required

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Good knowledge of operational risk management industry best practices for Corporate Treasury
• Strong knowledge of Treasury with particular emphasis on the control environment as it relates Treasury, financial and management reporting, and market/credit risk and compliance monitoring
• Previous Treasury, functions and/or Audit or Risk Management experience is an asset
• Experience in a risk or control environment (surveillance, supervision, compliance, audit, risk management, assurance)
• Strong analytical skills and experience
• Strong presentation, communication (verbal and written), and interpersonal skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/priorities
• Keen attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and without immediate supervision
• Ability to collaborate and execute key program requirements in a complex matrixed organization
• Ability to take ownership of issues and drive to a successful delivery or outcome, including both tactical and strategic solutions

Job Skills

Adapt Quickly, Always Learn, Business Risks, Communication, Compliance Management, Control Self Assessments, Controls Testing, Corporate Treasury, Drive to Impact, Financial Regulation, Financial Services Industry, Knowledge Organization, Office Operations, Operational Risks, Operation Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Compliance Management, Risk Management, Risk Registers, Strategic Thinking, Treasury Management

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeOFFICE OF THE CFORegularSalaried2025-08-182025-09-03

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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