Manager, Operational Risk

Royal Bank of Canada>; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a risk management professional to oversee operational risk practices within their wealth management division. This role involves managing a team, ensuring compliance with risk frameworks, and providing analytical insights into risk events. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in risk management and excellent relationship skills. This position offers collaboration with senior management and the chance to make a lasting impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Dynamic, collaborative team environment

Flexibility to work remotely up to one day a week

Qualifications

• Proven experience in risk management practices including RCSA and Risk Reporting.
• Capable of managing multiple responsibilities and meeting tight deadlines.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to deliver the operational risk framework.
• Perform quality assurance checks on new issues and actions.
• Support stakeholders in identifying and analyzing operational risk events.

Skills

Relationship Management

Risk Management Practices

Financial / Data Orientation

Education

CISI, ICA, IRM Certification

Job description

What is the Opportunity?

This role can be based across multiple locations across the British Isles, including London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Jersey.

You will be a key person in ensuring best-in-class, industry leading Operational Risk (OR) partnering practices, providing management with key risk insights to enable sound business decisions in Wealth Management Europe (WME). Through effective understanding of RBC’s risk management framework, industry techniques, stakeholder engagement and collaboration with our broader Operational Risk Management colleagues, the Manager will deliver risk management advisory services to stakeholders at various levels of the organisation. The key areas of focus will be operational risk events management, issues management, focusing on internal control deficiencies, assessing risk and control environment through the annual RCSA, integrated risk profiles and regular risk reporting, incl. risk appetite measures and key risk indicators.

RBC’s expectation is that all employees and contractors will work in the office with some flexibility to work up to 1 day per week remotely, depending on working arrangements.

What will you do?

• Work closely with Senior Managers to ensure that RBC standards and requirements are met.
• Manage a team of analysts to assist in partnering with key stakeholders to deliver the operational risk framework across WME.
• Using standardized thematic reporting, you will provide key stakeholders with insights into how the control environment can be strengthened.
• Support key stakeholders in identifying, raising, and analyzing OREs, identifying common themes, and clearly articulating root cause and next steps.
• Support key stakeholders in complying with RBC Enterprise Issue Management standard.
• Perform quality assurance checks on all new issues and actions to ensure problem statements are adequately documented, actions adequately address the problem statement. Ensure evidence for action closure is adequate and adequately addresses the control gaps captured in the problem statement.
• Support key stakeholders in performing risk profiles for change initiatives. Ensure risks are adequately rated, controls are identified, and where gaps exist, issues are raised to ensure adequate control implementation. Capture control additions, changes, retirements in the RCSA.
• Support the annual RCSA cycle – under guidance from the RCSA lead, execute the roll‑out of the RCSA process to business partners, ensuring that risks are appropriately documented, controls identified to mitigate the risks, and issues raised where there is a gap in controls.
• Support the annual WME Risk Appetite Refresh cycle, ensuring delivery of an insightful set of metrics that adequately support the business in preventing and detecting key operational risks.
• Contribute to WME Quarterly Risk Reporting, KRI reporting, deep dive and thematic risk reviews and periodical reporting. Liaise with the wide team, 2LoD and central reporting team on collating, validating and analysing data.
• Drive the continuous improvement effort by proactively identifying enhancement and / or optimization opportunities within existing processes.
• Looks within and outside RBC for best practices in supporting enhanced risk management and thematic analysis.
• Keeps abreast of the RBC framework changes and industry benchmarks; and integrating learnings into business practice.
• Contribute to and drive team efforts to impact, influence and drive a standardised / best-in‑class approach to operational risk management, prioritising consistency, efficiency and reusability.
• Build and maintain employee value proposition, position group as a premier career choice for talent.
• Develop junior staff members to create a talent pool for WME through coaching, development and thought leadership.

What do you need to succeed?

Must‑have

• Proven Relationship Management / Business Development skills.
• Strong experience in risk management practices, including RCSA, Risk Issue Management, Operational Risk Event Management, Risk Reporting, Risk Appetite, and Key Risk Indicator's (KRI's), and risk thematic reviews.
• Understanding of Enterprise Risk and Operational Risk Frameworks.
• Capable of managing multiple responsibilities, meeting tight deadlines and ability to work under pressure.
• Financial / Data Orientation.

Nice to have

• CISI, ICA, IRM Certification, Risk Management or Accountancy qualifications.
• RBC Organizational awareness (UK / Global).

What is in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

Opportunities to work with the best in the field.

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team.

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Application Deadline

2026‑01‑19

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