Director, GRM Commercial Credit, Real Estate Development

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a Director for their Group Risk Management team in Toronto. The role involves adjudicating credit applications in Real Estate Development, ensuring portfolio quality, and making strategic decisions to mitigate risks. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in commercial real estate and strong communication skills. Join a dynamic team focused on operational effectiveness and client experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Competitive compensation

Opportunities for greater accountabilities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial real estate experience focused on Real Estate Construction and Development.
• Strong communication, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Adjudicate Real Estate Development credit applications within delegated lending limits.
• Maintain portfolio quality and minimize losses while maximizing return.

Skills

Commercial Real Estate

Credit Analysis

Decision Making

Financial Statement Analysis

Leadership

Education

Undergraduate Degree

Job description

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As part of the Group Risk Management team, the Director is responsible for the primary adjudication and decision making with respect to the approval and amendment of new and existing credit commitments across RBC's Real Estate Development Lending Portfolio. Directors are tasked with the review and recommendation of generally large credit exposures facing a client base that principally includes top tier Canadian developers. Experienced Directors are generally expected to be able to provide transaction structuring advice to mitigate risks, comprehensively understand the risk profiles of transactions, and communicate recommendations to leadership including senior executives. You will focus on maintaining portfolio quality, alignment with the business, operational effectiveness, sharing best practices with business partners and working towards high level of efficiency in management of assigned portfolios, and enhancing the client experience.

What will you do?

• Work with the Team to maintain a strong risk profile, and managing assigned portfolio in such a way as to minimize losses and maximize return
• Adjudicate Real Estate Development credit applications within your delegated lending limits. Influence portfolio quality through strategic assessment of risk, attention to data quality and knowledge-sharing.
• Deliver consistent decisions with solid communication of rationale for support, amendments or declines.
• Ensure clients and colleagues are treated with respect, a highly professional empathetic approach is used, and good working relationships are maintained. Look for, and act upon, opportunities to strengthen the efficiency, accessibility and responsiveness of key risk processes and practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to achieve collective results. Act as a catalyst to ensure team is strategically aligned with business strategies while maintaining the Bank's desired risk profile.
• Take initiative to proactively seek, demonstrate, and facilitate consistency in credit adjudication fully utilizing other resources including other risk teams.
• Ensure accurate and consistent processes/controls are in place and being followed to protect shareholder interests. Ensure credit transactions are adjudicated, for the most part, within Policy Guidelines, Standards, and Procedures and mitigate risks as necessary.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• 5+ years of commercial real estate experience with a preferred focus on Real Estate Construction and Development
• Strong communication, coaching, and conflict resolution skills
• Proven ability to make decisions in the presence of pressure and uncertainty
• Undergraduate Degree

Nice-to-Have:

• Previous Real Estate experience within commercial or corporate banking
• In-depth knowledge of RBC Risk Policies, procedures & practices, Folios etc.
• Proficiency with Bank Technology.
• Post graduate qualifications (CFA, CMA, MBA etc.)

What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking, to keep growing, and working together to build and deliver trusted reporting to help our stakeholders succeed 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
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Job Skills

Commercial Real Estate, Credit Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Statement Analysis, Fraud Management in Retail, Leadership, Loss Prevention Plans, Real Estate, Real Estate Development, Retail Audits, Retail Investigations, Retail Problem Management Process, Retail Service Request Management Process, Retail Systems, Taking Ownership

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-05-12

Application Deadline:

2025-05-31

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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