Senior IT Audit Leader – Infrastructure & Risk

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC in Toronto is seeking a Senior Manager, Technology Infrastructure to provide independent assurance over IT risk management, governance and internal controls. You will lead audits of RBC Infrastructure and Service Management, coordinating with global IT teams and regulators to meet evolving expectations.

This role requires strategic leadership, staff development, and delivering timely, actionable findings to senior management, while strengthening IT controls across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 7 years banking/audit IT experience including IT service management and IT risk management audit experience, with in-depth knowledge of ITIL and IT Operations, Cloud Technologies (IaaS, PaaS), Web & Application Hosting, Microsoft Azure, and AWS.
• Minimum 5 years of business experience in a financial institution or technology company, dealing with multiple business platforms, business processes, geographies, and legal entities, and with in-depth knowledge of financial services banking technology and related risks.
• Minimum 5 years of Audit experience (strategic planning through reporting) in a senior leadership role with a current working knowledge of Internal Audit practices, policies, procedures and systems.
• CISA, CISM, CISSP and/or CIA designation

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead and execute on the annual Audit Plan for RBC Infrastructure & Service Management audit universe, ensuring that audits conform to local and global regulatory and internal audit requirements.
• Supervise and implement the execution of the audit plan and ensure effective audit practices for traditional and continuous audits. Collaborate with broader Global RBC and CUSO IT teams and departments to achieve the plan (where needed).
• Make recommendations to clients on control deficiencies and follow up to ensure significant deficiencies are corrected. Assist business management to develop appropriate action plans to address identified deficiencies, and ensure corrective actions are implemented in a timely manner to effectively address the issues.
• Plan and execute complex and confidential/special audit projects enterprise wide as requested by senior management of the Bank.
• Communicate trends in risk and control issues to senior management on the results of ongoing reviews of the businesses that are key relationships, or any other business as requested.
• Provide support for RBC IT and regulatory requests, responses and meetings.
• Build, direct, counsel, and instruct staff assigned to an engagement and review audit plan, findings and reports for sufficient scope and for accuracy.
• Develop capability of team use of analytic tools to widen scope of assurance.

Skills

IT risk management

IT audit

IT service management

IT operations

ITIL

Cloud technologies

AWS

Azure

Banking industry experience

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

RBC in Toronto is seeking a Senior Manager, Technology Infrastructure to provide independent assurance over IT risk management, governance and internal controls. You will lead audits of RBC Infrastructure and Service Management, coordinating with global IT teams and regulators to meet evolving expectations.

This role requires strategic leadership, staff development, and delivering timely, actionable findings to senior management, while strengthening IT controls across the organization.