Senior Manager, Productivity Performance Management

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto seeks a skilled professional for productivity performance management. The role involves collaboration with senior leaders to provide analytical insights, create financial trend reports, and manage productivity initiatives. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience communicating effectively with executives and working with large data sets. A post-graduate degree in a relevant field is preferred, along with finance accreditations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering presentations to senior leadership.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Experience with large data sets and actionable insights.
• Ability to adapt through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Provide analysis and recommendations on business performance.
• Create insight reports for CFO and HR committees.
• Prepare comprehensive financial trend reports.
• Develop relationships with finance teams to align metrics.
• Lead productivity culture and manage reporting progress.
• Build analytical dashboards for executive reporting.

Skills

Active Learning

Business Appraisals

Business Process Design

Decision Making

Group Problem Solving

Interpersonal Relationship Management

Organizational Change Management

Process Management

Time Management

Education

Post-graduate degree – MBA/EMBA, Masters in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a similar field

CPA/CMA, CA, CFA or other finance/risk accreditations

Job description

Job Description

The Productivity Performance Management team is looking for someone who enjoys collaboration, problem‑solving and driving impact across the organization. In this role, you will work with senior leaders across Finance and Businesses to align performance metrics and drive insights to enable RBC’s bold growth ambitions. If you have a passion for productivity and enjoy working with data, generating insights, and telling compelling stories to executive audiences, this is a role that you will thrive in.

What You Will Do

• Provide business executives and senior management with analysis and recommendations on business performance, including identification of issues and ongoing monitoring, and analysis of strategic initiatives and key decision variables.
• Create weekly and monthly insight reports for the CFO and HR operating committees, providing detailed visibility of workforce movement and its financial implications to RBC. Proactively elevate issues and work with senior leaders to understand and manage growth.
• Prepare comprehensive financial trend reports for all business segments and lines of business on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, covering actual results, forecasts, and planning periods.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with segment strategy and finance teams to ensure performance across financial and non‑financial metrics is aligned to mid‑term objectives.
• Champion the productivity culture across the enterprise by leading key productivity routines and ensuring alignment and connectivity to financial routines.
• Own the production and socialization of the Productivity Performance Management reporting at the enterprise level to provide visibility to progress against goals.
• Provide insights and guidance across planning and forecasting financial processes to ensure alignment to our ambitions.
• Manage build‑out of analytical and performance management dashboards for operating committees, group executives, and CEO/CFO reporting purposes. Establish data solutions to consume and present financial and non‑financial data to a wide spectrum of senior audiences.

What You Need to Succeed

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience developing and confidently delivering compelling and visually appealing presentations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a genuine passion for working collaboratively in a team environment across various teams and with executive audiences.
• Strong analytical and structured problem‑solving skills, with a passion for challenging the status quo in a collaborative manner.
• Experience and comfort working with large data sets and delivering actionable insights and recommended strategies.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and adapt accordingly.

Nice to Have

• Strategy or consulting experience in a consulting management, financial services, or entrepreneurial environment, or other comparative experience.
• Experience in a finance performance management and/or cost efficiency function.
• Post‑graduate degree – MBA/EMBA, Masters in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a similar field.
• CPA/CMA, CA, CFA or any other finance/risk accreditations.

Job Skills

Active Learning, Business Appraisals, Business Process Design, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Organizational Change Management, Process Management, Time Management

Location

20 KING ST W – TORONTO, ON, Canada

Equal Opportunity

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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