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Jersey City, NJ | United States

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Job Summary

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

Provide leadership in assisting the US Internal Audit (IA) teams in the research, development, and delivery of strategic and analytics initiatives to achieve Audit objectives in alignment with Internal Audit’s transformation goals.  These initiatives affect operations and audit execution across multiple geographies and/or across multiple business units/platforms.  Responsible for supporting the performance and quality of analytics that will provide continuous improvements of the audits that have been planned for the respective platforms.

Support the business phases of the analytics lifecycle for the respective IA platform(s). Responsible for assisting in internal and external research, stakeholder management, collaborative requirement gathering, and a user-centric approach that in combination ensure technical solutions are both valuable and readily adopted across IA.

Effectively collaborate closely with technical talent pools who transform proposed business cases into leading edge technological solutions. Strategically recommend and apply existing technology to reduce duplication of efforts and ensure the Internal Audit platforms have the skills and capacity to use and understand the technology available across Internal Audit. Responsible for researching and developing foundational analytics that support Internal Audit RBC US teams.

What will you do?

Leadership & People Management:

• Manage a team of data analytics professionals to effectively advance the Data Analytics agenda in line with Audit objectives in US. 
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with team members, process stakeholders, support groups, business partner teams, to ensure collaboration and cooperation to meet timing of projects.
• Continually demonstrate commitment to and application of RBC Leadership Model Behaviors.

Relationship Building and Client Experience:

• Engages Senior Directors and Regulators on a regular basis to facilitate proactive and ongoing, formal and informal, monitoring and insights.
• Manages and escalates regional issues to the Managing Director, CUSO Head of Audit Operations and Analytics, US CAE, CNB CAE, and/or Deputy US CAE. 

Analytics Lab Support:

• Create and maintain foundational data & analytics initiatives that provide continuous improvements of the audits that have been planned in the platform(s).
• Lead effective delivery of a pipeline of data analytics and automation initiatives that impact Audit execution activities globally across all regions and lines of business.
• Lead the prioritization of analytics based on areas of best return; deciding on accept/decline analytics and automation activities for the Lab to execute on; hosting regular cadence with lab stakeholders; ensuring analytics initiatives are tracked in central repository.
• Empowered to challenge and refine the value of analytics ideas as proposed by the auditors.

Business Case Development and Adoption Support:

• Provide guidance and conduct research and identify opportunities for improving processes and technology: Externally, research best practices, emerging risks, and innovation across RBC and broadly throughout the financial sector. Internally, gather, understand, and analyze auditors’ pain points.
• Size potential upside of deploying a solution across platforms, in line with your findings. In partnership with technical experts and other stakeholders, define and articulate ROI for your business cases for Executive Selection Committee approval.
• Lead and support technical builds and process reengineering aligned with business cases at every step of analytics lifecycle; engage auditors as needed and support user acceptance testing across your platforms.
• Lead and support the communication of ongoing work to broad Internal Audit audience and support creation of training materials and experiences for selected tools.

Technological Use and Reuse

• Lead and support the adoption of centrally developed data products in the platform with support from the DMA team.
• Lead and support global adoption of IA wide data initiatives.
• Lead and support technology use and reuse by having a thorough understanding of available and upcoming technology across the Internal Audit toolkit.
• Lead and assist in review of quarterly Audit plan for existing tool use to reduce duplication of efforts and to ensure technology provides expected return.
• Support gathering and triage feedback for technical experts on an ongoing basis.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10-15+ years of experience
• Experience in data analytics
• Experience working in Internal Audit
• Experience leading people and teams

Nice-to-Have

• 2+ years of experience with big data technologies, Python, SWL, Data Visualization
• Experience working in financial services or banking

What's 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.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

The good-faith expected salary range for the above position is $150,000-$250,000 depending on factors including but not limited to the candidate’s experience, skills, registration status; market conditions; and business needs.  This salary range does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

·       Drives RBC’s high performance culture

·       Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

·       Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

Job Skills

Adaptability, Auditing (Inactive), Detail-Oriented, Internal Controls, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Long Term Planning, Multi-Level Communication, Organizational Savvy and Politics, Results-Oriented

Additional Job Details

Address:

GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITY

City:

Jersey City

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Internal Audit

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-03-05

Application Deadline:

2024-03-13

I nclusion 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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We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.

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