Director, Asset Protection (Global Security)

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Insider Risk and Asset Protection Director within the greater Toronto area. The role focuses on identifying, assessing, and protecting assets including applications, intellectual property, and physical infrastructure working across departments within a cross-functional team. A key part of the role will be ongoing control reviews and oversight, a need to engage with technical and business teams while working with stakeholders to help better control coverage based on the likelihood of potential exposure. The incumbent will be responsible to ensure risk and controls are managed, sustainable, and maintained. The role will also be responsible to help aggregate risk reporting and metrics while socializing these across risk and governance functions.

What will you do?

• Develop and drive risk-based controls to detect and prevent unauthorized access, mishandling, and misuse while ensuring monitoring practices are enhanced.
• Conduct regular review of higher-risk application areas to ensure compliance with protections, policies, and standards.
• Communicate improvement and enhancements at all reporting levels.
• Review and recommend enhanced controls while engaging teams to help mature relevant data analytics and oversight functions.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with risk and operational partners.
• Track and manage issues findings until remediated.
• Create, manage, and maintain sustainable procedure and process documentation.
• Establish, lead, and manage a team to help deliver ongoing protection and oversight needs across RBC.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• A practical understanding of data protection risks, exposures, and effective controls to help mitigate them.
• 3+ years of risk management experience.
• Experience with behavior-based monitoring and technology.
• Staying up to date on emerging threats, trends, and technologies on insider risk management.
• Experience managing, engaging, and tracking large scale application assessments.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work independently and effectively manage multiple priorities.
• A willingness to make a difference and to help maintain and build trust.
• Audit, operational support, data protection, or governance experience.

Nice-to-have:

• Industry related certification – e.g. CASP+/CISSP/CISA
• Knowledge of financial services business line(s) and associated applications and processes.
• Information Technology standards, methodologies, and audit requirements.

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.
• A world-class training program in financial services.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

Job Skills

Audits Compliance, Communication, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Regulation, Industry Knowledge, Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Interpersonal Relationship Management, People Management, Prioritization, Product Services, Risk Control, Risk Management, Risk Management Assessment, Risk Management Strategies, Strategic Thinking, Teamwork, Working Independently

Additional Job Details

Address: 330 FRONT ST W:TORONTO

City: TORONTO

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-04-04

Application Deadline: 2025-04-30

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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