Associate Director - Cyber and IT Risk

What is the Opportunity?

Reporting to the Director, Cyber and IT Risk within Group Risk Management Enterprise Resilience Risk (ERR), you will drive the Second Line of Defense engagement across all Regulatory Examinations and Regulatory Issue Issues Remediation. The work entails collaborating effectively with global Cyber and Technology Risk, Business Regulatory & Issues Management Team, US Regulatory Relations Team and Global IT Risk (Global Cyber Security, Technology & Operations) teams to ensure that regulatory examination requirements across first and second lines of defense are met.  This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high profile role that provides a broad perspective and exposure across Technology and ORM.

What will you do?

• Responsible for performing review and challenge for all regulatory submissions to ensure accuracy, validity, completeness, and alignment with internal RBC policies, standards, and regulatory requirements

• Identify areas requiring improvements through the review of regulatory submissions and communicate issues, risks and control gaps with the broader Second Line of Defense team and subject matter domain leads to ensure that issues are targeted for deep dives

• Coordination and drafting of Second Line of Defense Regulatory Exam First Day Letter Requests

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of Second Line oversight, review, and challenge for regulatory workstreams within the US

• Partners with senior leaders within the US Operations and Global Technology to ensure integrated activities across regulatory remediation

• Partners with senior leaders to ensure that output from remediation activities has traceability back to root causes and regulatory responses and has proper signoff through appropriate governance channels, as necessary

• Responsible for performing review and challenge for all regulatory remediation activities to ensure alignment to the corrective actions stemming from the regulatory issue and to ensure documentation appropriately evidences remediation activities

• Tracking and reporting on trends and gaps within regulatory activity and submissions

What do you need to succeed?

• Undergraduate degree in Technology or Business followed by a minimum of 7 years of experience in progressively responsible Technology, IT Risk or IT Internal Audit experience including risk analysis and reporting roles

• Detail-oriented and operationally savvy, action-oriented individual who continually strives for improvement

• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory and risk management in the financial services industry

• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and communications skills with an ability to interact effectively with stakeholders and regulators, and the ability to effectively manage and build relationships across large organizations

• Experience in working within a large, global financial services company preferred

• CISSP, CRISC or other Information Security Certifications preferred

• 5 years’ experience in IT risk management preferred

• Working knowledge of GRC tools (e.g., Archer, ServiceNow, etc.) preferred

What’s in it for you?

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.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and 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

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to build close relationships with clients

The good-faith expected salary range for the above position is $110,000 - $190,000 (New Jersey), $85,000 - $150,000 (MN) depending on factors including but not limited to the candidate’s experience, skills, registration status; market conditions; and business needs.  This salary range does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

• Drives RBC’s high performance culture

• Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

• Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At 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.