Disaster Recovery Risk Analyst

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program including bonus

Coaching and development

Impact and collaboration

Dynamic team environment

Challenging work

Opportunity for greater accountablity

Job summary

RBC in Toronto is seeking an experienced risk and disaster-readiness professional to support end-to-end assessments, monitoring, and reporting of third-party disaster recovery capabilities. You will align with corporate resilience standards, risk frameworks, and regulatory expectations, providing oversight to business units for identifying and mitigating DR risks.

This role offers a comprehensive rewards program, development opportunities, and a collaborative, high-performance team environment

Qualifications

• University/College Degree in a relevant or applicable field.
• 2-4 years experience in performing risk assessment and related reporting and tracking.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and Third-Party Supplier Lifecycle.
• Ability to understand policies, standards and regulatory requirements related to third-party relationships.
• Ability to work independently or within team structures.
• Ability to learn quickly to understand stakeholder positions throughout the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end process for assessing, monitoring, and validating suppliers’ disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
• Ensure alignment with corporate resilience standards, internal risk frameworks, and applicable regulatory expectations.
• Provide oversight and support to business units for the identification, mitigation, and remediation of third-party disaster recovery risks.
• Conduct third-party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments for new, existing, and renewed contracts.
• Identify and escalation material risks, unresponsiveness, delayed SLAs, and critical deficiencies to senior leadership for timely action.
• Support the evaluation of concentrated supplier risks and recommend strategies to mitigate single points of failure.
• Documents end-to-end requirements for meeting new obligations in Third Party Disaster Recovery risk assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Looks for opportunities to automate processes, communication and/or reporting.
• Partner with Line of Business teams, IT Risk, BCM, Supplier Management Office, and SaaS Architecture to ensure comprehensive and accurate DR assessments.
• Act as a subject matter expert to support supplier engagements, contract negotiations and renewal discussions related to resilience and disaster recovery provisions.
• Leverages the existing supplier management process to determine risk assessment needs and priorities, makes assessments, and reports results.
• Identify any issues or risk gaps and track issues through to completion.
• Documents opportunities for improvement uncovered through reviews or researching as required, to increase efficiency and better meet the goals of the business.
• Assists in implementing KRIs/ KPIs/ EXI metrics for our overall compliance reporting obligations.
• Assists in understanding how new regulations, policies or standards impact the disaster readiness process and reporting in order to make meaningful recommendations on suggested changes.
• Develop or improve tools and mechanisms for building reporting processes for the team and the business.

Skills

Business Continuity and Disaster Reco

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cyber Security Management

Firewall Management

Information Security Management

IT Network Security

Operational Delivery

Problem Management

Process Management

Threat Management

Education

University/College degree in relevant field

Job description

RBC in Toronto is seeking an experienced risk and disaster-readiness professional to support end-to-end assessments, monitoring, and reporting of third-party disaster recovery capabilities. You will align with corporate resilience standards, risk frameworks, and regulatory expectations, providing oversight to business units for identifying and mitigating DR risks.

This role offers a comprehensive rewards program, development opportunities, and a collaborative, high-performance team environment