Royal Bank of Canada

Associate Director, Program Management

Royal Bank of Canada • $100K — $130K *
Toronto, ON M3C 0E3In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Project Management experience
  • 3+ years in Capital Markets project management regarding complex strategic change
  • Strong knowledge of SDLC with 2+ years of Agile methodologies experience
  • Expertise in asset classes (Rates, Credit, Equities) and relevant functional areas
  • Proven ability to engage with senior management at Director and MD levels
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office tools including Project and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic and regulatory initiatives through the full project lifecycle
  • Collaborate with business and technology owners to ensure successful initiative delivery
  • Establish governance and oversight for projects
  • Develop and refine project plans, tracking dependencies and performance
  • Identify and resolve project issues and conflicts as they arise
  • Manage communications, providing status updates to stakeholders
  • Oversee project delivery assurance and interface with internal audit

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses
  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on high visibility initiatives
  • Collaboration across cross-asset and cross-functional teams
  • Dynamic and high-performing team environment
Full Job Description
Job Description

Senior Project Manager, Strategy and Portfolio Management (SPM) will manage the execution of large & complex strategic change/regulatory initiatives within Capital Markets (CM) & Quantitative & Technology Services (QTS). The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating activities across cross-functional business and technology teams within and outside Capital Markets to ensure program goals and objectives are accomplished within approved timeframe, scope and budget. This role requires an understanding of Capital Markets & QTS Strategy and ensuring program deliverables align to that vision.

What will you do?
  • Lead and manage x-asset strategic & regulatory initiatives with multiple work streams through full project lifecycle (initiation, definition, financials, resourcing, implementation, delivery, enhancement, maintenance)
  • Work with Global Business/Technology Owners to ensure that the initiatives successfully deliver against desired business outcomes and enable value creation
  • Establish appropriate governance and oversight for assigned initiatives
  • Develop integrated baseline project plans applying estimation models; refines & tracks plans including coordination of inter-work stream dependencies; manages performance against delivery plans
  • Raise and track issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves project issues and escalates to immediate manager when required
  • Manage program communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team
  • Responsible for support & oversight of project and program delivery assurance and lead IT face off to RBC internal audit


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have
  • 5+ years Project Management experience
  • At least 3+ years of PM experience in Capital Markets (IT or business) across cross asset large scale ($5M+) complex strategic change and regulatory initiatives.
  • Possesses a strong knowledge of SDLC and 2+ years of experience with Agile delivery methodologies & tooling (JIRA, Confluence, Rally Central)
  • Domain expertise in one or more asset classes (Rates, Credit, Equities) and F2B functional areas Front Office (trade capture, pricing, trading risk/pnl), Operations, Product Control, Market and Credit Risk.
  • Domain expertise in one or more asset classes (Rates, Credit, Equities) and F2B functional areas Front Office (trade capture, pricing, trading risk/pnl), Operations, Product Control, Market and Credit Risk.
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities; Strong structured, analytical and methodological thinking
  • Demonstrated ability to face off to Director and MD level senior management across IT and business
  • Demonstrated ability to multi-task across competing priorities
  • Proficiency with MS Office (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint)


Nice-to-have
  • Prior consulting experience with "Big Four"
  • PMP and/or PgMP certification


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and competitive compensation
  • Ability to make a difference and have a lasting impact via contributions to high visibility initiatives involving challenging work
  • Opportunity to build cross-asset cross functional relationships across the bank
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative and high-performing team


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Job Skills
Business Oriented, Communication, Group Problem Solving, Long Term Planning, Meeting Management, Organizational Change Management, Resource Coordination, Results-Oriented, Time Management, Waterfall Model

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:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-08

Application Deadline:

2026-08-14
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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86,007 employees
Market Cap
$130.3 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
5 Year Trend
+8.7%
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