Royal Bank of Canada

Associate Director, Model Innovation and Implementation

Royal Bank of Canada$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in market risk and counterparty credit risk management
  • Broad knowledge of capital markets products
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proficient in Python for finance use cases
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting complex concepts
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
  • Master's in Financial, Engineering, Statistics or equivalent; PhD preferred

Responsibilities

  • Research and evaluate best practices for market risk modeling
  • Identify key risk features in the trading portfolio
  • Integrate risk model libraries into enterprise architecture
  • Collaborate with partners to implement risk methodologies
  • Document methodologies and validation processes
  • Develop tools to assess model performance
  • Maintain and recalibrate existing market risk models

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Leadership support for professional development
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for challenging and impactful work
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Associate Director, Model Innovation and Implementation is responsible for the conceptual design, development, implementation, deployment, documentation and maintenance of models used to measure market risk and counterparty credit risk within the bank's risk management frameworks. This includes ensuring that the model's underlying methodologies are appropriate and that they are implemented with integrity so that they accurately measure RBC's risks.

In your role, you will be focused on building and implementing trading risk methodologies for instruments across various asset classes, as well as ensuring that the strategic build-out of the overall platform is complete and robust. You will leverage AI tools to boost efficiency and accelerate development cycles, enabling you to deliver high-impact solutions while maintaining rigorous quantitative standards.

What will you do?
  • Conduct research, review regulatory requirements and consult with industry stakeholders to evaluate best practices for modeling, and develop market risk methodologies.
  • Become proficient with key risk features of the products and risk factor identification process in the trading portfolio
  • Develop, maintain and integrate risk model libraries with the overall enterprise architecture to provide end-to-end solutions.
  • Work with risk and technology partners to productionize risk methodology implementations by adopting industrial standard and strategic architecture.
  • Document model methodologies, implementation details and testing results, and work with internal validation to facilitate their approval of the models.
  • Develop tools to assess and monitor model performance, and benchmark against alternative models
  • Maintain existing market risk models by conducting exercises include but not limited to regular model recalibrations, and assumption re-assessment.
  • Utilizing AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, streamline development processes, and improve code quality while maintaining compliance and accuracy standards.


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have
  • 2+ years of working experience in regulatory & internal risk management requirements under market risk, CCAR or counterparty credit risk.
  • Broad capital markets product knowledge across various asset classes.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Strong Python development skills with focus on finance use cases
  • Above average oral and written presentation skills: ability to present clearly complicated modelling concepts and techniques to senior management
  • Ability to work collaboratively to achieve team goals
  • Agility to adapt to changing circumstances in a dynamic environment
  • Masters in Financial, Engineering, Statistics or equivalent. PhD in Finance, Engineering or Applied Sciences


Nice-to-have
  • Experience in Big Data development and toolsets (HDFS, PySpark, Spark, Scala, etc.)
  • Knowledge and experiences in AI models and tools, such as Copilot, Claude, Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Transformers, and similar emerging AI technologies


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits and competitive compensation
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


Job Skills
Client Counseling, Critical Thinking, Economic Analysis, Financial Derivatives, Financial Instruments, Investment Banking Analysis, Investment Risk Management, Market Risk, Quantitative Methods

Additional Job Details

Address:

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-10

Application Deadline:

2026-07-10
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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