Job Summary

The Senior Director, Regulatory Compliance Management, leads the development, implementation and oversight of the Regulatory Compliance Management program at RBC. This role ensures RBC’s compliance management framework meets evolving regulatory expectations globally, whilst enabling the robust oversight of regulatory requirements, processes and controls, to support the Global Chief Compliance Officer’s report to the Board on the state of compliance risk management at RBC.

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

This enterprise-level role is responsible for ensuring that the bank maintains robust policies, standards, and frameworks to meet regulatory expectations and internal compliance risk management objectives. Key areas of focus include the compliance risk assessment program, quality assurance reviews, and compliance governance standards.

This individual will play a critical role in driving consistency, effectiveness, and continuous improvement across the Compliance function globally, partnering with regional and business compliance leaders and risk management teams.

What will you do?

1. Compliance Risk Management Program Leadership

Design and maintain the bank’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practices.

Oversee the Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) program, ensuring that compliance risks are effectively identified, assessed, and mitigated across business lines and regions.

Establish methodologies for risk identification, rating criteria, and reporting, integrating findings into overall risk governance.

Lead compliance risk appetite, ensuring integration with the enterprise risk management framework.

2. Policies, Standards, and Governance

Develop and maintain the bank’s compliance policies and standards, ensuring consistency across regions and businesses.

Provide subject matter expertise on regulatory expectations for compliance risk management and support the evolution of compliance practices..

3. Quality Assurance Reviews

Develop and oversee the Compliance Quality Assurance Review (QAR) framework, ensuring independent assessments of the effectiveness of compliance programs across the bank.

Identify and drive remediation of thematic issues across compliance functions and provide insights to business and control partners.

4. Internal Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as a key compliance liaison with senior management on compliance risk management topics.

Provide thought leadership and best practices in compliance risk governance, participating in industry forums and regulatory discussions.

Lead engagement with business, regional, and functional compliance teams to drive consistency and effectiveness in compliance practices.

Foster strong collaboration and working relationships within Compliance, to ensure operating effectiveness of the program

Champion enterprise-wide and industry best practices to support and drive ongoing enhancements to the Regulatory Compliance Management Framework and providing active change management leadership to support Compliance goals

5. Compliance Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Act as Product Owner for RBC’s internal and vendor-based technology platforms, ensuring adequate technology controls and fit-for-purpose configuration of tooling to support program execution.

Identify opportunities to enhance automation, analytics, and reporting capabilities within compliance risk assessments, QA, and monitoring.

Foster a culture of continuous improvement, identifying emerging risks and trends to proactively refine compliance practices.

What do you need to succeed?

10+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, regulatory oversight, or a related function in a global financial institution.

Deep expertise in compliance risk management frameworks, risk assessments, governance, policies, and regulatory expectations.

Strong understanding of global financial regulatory requirements, including those from OSFI, the Federal Reserve (Fed), and OCC, and other major regulators.

Experience leading enterprise-wide compliance programs in a complex, multinational financial services environment.

Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills with the ability to drive change across an enterprise.

Experience with compliance quality assurance, testing, and regulatory change management programs.

Familiarity with data analytics, automation, and emerging compliance technologies is a plus.

Key Competencies

Strategic Leadership: Ability to set and execute a vision for compliance practices across a global bank.

Regulatory Acumen: Strong understanding of financial regulations, risk management frameworks, and regulatory expectations.

Influence & Collaboration: Skilled at working across business lines, compliance teams, and senior leadership.

Analytical & Problem-Solving: Ability to assess risk trends, identify gaps, and develop practical solutions.

Change Management: Experience driving transformation in compliance risk management frameworks.

Communication & Executive Presence: Ability to present complex compliance matters effectively to senior management, regulators, and the Board.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, thinking progressively 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.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

Work in an agile, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

The opportunity to interface with executives from many different parts of the organization

Job Skills

Audits Compliance, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Regulation, Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking

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:

CHIEF LEGAL & ADMIN OFFICE GRP

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-02-18

Application Deadline:

2025-03-08

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.
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