Associate Director- Wholesale Finance Projects and Governance

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive and motivated leader to join its Capital Markets Platform Financial Control team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile projects, ensuring accurate financial reporting and controls within a dynamic environment. As the key point of contact with stakeholders, you'll lead project implementations and collaborate across various teams, making a significant impact on the organization. If you're ready to thrive in a fast-paced setting and make a difference within finance, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of financial reporting under IFRS accounting standards.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the strategic direction for large program implementation activities.
• Collaborate with Finance counterparts to maintain testing plans.

Skills

Accounting

Financial Reporting

Decision Making

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Team Management

Strategic Thinking

Education

CPA designation

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Access Database

Job description

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

For forward-thinking and motivated leaders, this is an opportunity to join the Capital Markets Platform Financial Control team of Canada’s largest company, frequently ranked as one of the top companies to work for in Canada.

RBC Capital Markets is an innovative and dynamic platform with a diverse product set and fast pace of continuous change, which provides ample scope for learning and career growth. You will be joining the Wholesale Platform Finance team, which is responsible for our global financial close process, project implementation, and establishes the overall control framework for Capital Markets.

If you are proactive, self-motivated, excited about working on a high profile, challenging system/program implementation, and interested in building a career within a world-class financial institution, this is a great opportunity for you.

This is a great opportunity for those who are interested in being the key point of contact with internal/external stakeholders to lead project implementations, including end-to-end strategy, planning, testing, and controls assessment for Capital Markets Finance in support of our growing and evolving business.

This role will appeal to individuals who want to work in a fast-paced area that has significant visibility and a high profile across RBC (especially within CM), who have an appetite for working in a forward looking and innovative environment, and who also thrive on challenges, want to over-achieve and make a real difference within Finance and the business.

What will you do?

Support the Director and Senior Director in setting the strategic direction for large program implementation activities impacting Global Capital Markets for Financial Control, this will include, but is not limited to:

• Working with relevant stakeholders in Finance to prepare and maintain a detailed integration and testing plan for Financial Control
• Collaborating with Finance counterparts in Financial Control, Product Control, Performance Management, Tax and Enterprise Finance and other impacted stakeholders including Front Office, IT, Operations and Law Group to support completion against plan and identify, elevate and address key execution risks
• Effectively represent Financial Control in planning and ongoing discussions related to integration/implementation initiatives.

In relation to specific initiatives, you are the Quarterback for Finance with respect to accounting, financial reporting, and controls and governance, ensuring transactions are accurately and completely captured in RBC financial systems, and orchestrating relevant activities through functional partners to enable Front Office transactions. As a result, you will:

• Create relationships with the business and other key stakeholders (e.g., Product Control, Performance Management, IT, Risk Management, Accounting Policy, Tax, Capital and other Enterprise Finance partners) striving to be a trusted business partner and the first port of call in resolving finance-related implementation issues.
• Assess and identify key risk areas, and set up appropriate controls to satisfy SOX requirements, including, but not limited to leading discussions with Internal/External auditors, IT and business stakeholders, and various Functional partners.
• Maintain a high standard of partner service quality by taking ownership and accountability of incoming requests, and proactively respond to ad-hoc inquiries and requests for financial information and analysis by senior management or other business partners.

In the successful execution of the above responsibilities, the incumbent will act as the liaison between the Platform (including regional financial control units) and other teams (e.g. Operations, GRM, Tax etc.) in discussing and resolving implementation related issues.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• CPA designation
• Strong knowledge and understanding of financial reporting under IFRS accounting standards and internal controls over financial reporting.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills – ability to work with people at all levels within the organization.
• Excellent analytical thinking and acute attention to detail.
• Highly motivated, collaborative, and self-starter attitude.
• Ability to manage numerous priorities simultaneously amidst tight deadlines.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Capital Markets businesses
• Knowledge of RBC financial systems and associated procedures
• Proficiency with computer applications, such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Access Database; EPM system knowledge also preferred.

Job Skills

Accounting, Accounting Finance, Decision Making, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Long Term Planning, Oral Communications, Organizational Savvy and Politics, Strategic Thinking, Team Management, Time Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

OFFICE OF THE CFO

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-05-07

Application Deadline:

2025-05-24

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

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