Royal Bank of Canada

Director, TLAP FX Portfolio Manager

Royal Bank of Canada$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Professional designation (CFA, CPA, or equivalent) and a degree in Finance or Accounting
  • 7+ years' front office experience in cross-currency relative value, interest rate hedging, and secured funding
  • Hands-on experience with institutional-level HQLA assets focusing on relative value
  • Demonstrated capability to provide buy/sell recommendations to senior management
  • Deep understanding of hedge accounting, bank capital management, and liquidity management
  • Effective communicator across diverse stakeholder groups

Responsibilities

  • Execute trades for USD HQLA 1/2A assets
  • Purchase and hedge currency risks for non-CAD/USD HQLA 1/2A
  • Perform derivative duration hedging compliant with hedge accounting standards
  • Train junior staff as the lead subject matter expert on cross-currency investments
  • Collaborate with data analytics and reporting to optimize portfolio modeling
  • Coordinate with Product Control and Performance Management for accurate reporting
  • Partner with Risk Teams to ensure compliance with exposure limits

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leaders focused on development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Potential to make a significant and lasting impact
  • Collaborative and high-performing team environment
  • Engagement with senior executives across various organizational sectors
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Join our HQLA team to manage and optimize approximately $100 billion in liquid assets across multiple jurisdictions. This role balances day-to-day portfolio execution with strategic focus on USD and cross-currency investment opportunities, hedging strategies, and profitability optimization. You'll combine robust reporting with market expertise to build ideal portfolio models while managing capital, liquidity, tax, and enterprise balance sheet value within Risk and Treasury constraints. This role will lean itself to a candidate who love to impart market knowledge into algorithms and iteratively build the ideal portfolio.

What will you do?
  • Execute trades to purchase USD HQLA 1/2A
  • Execute trades to purchase and hedge currency risk of non CAD/USD HQLA 1/2A
  • Executing derivative duration hedging compliant with hedge accounting standards
  • Be lead subject matter expert on cross currency investment opportunities (both currency and foreign markets) including training of junior staff
  • Work with the Markets' data analytics and reporting team to tell the story of the portfolio, work on the ideal portfolio given the environmental binding constraints, and build real life limitations into ideal model portfolios
  • Work with our Product Control and Performance Management team to have reporting of the portfolio performance relative to the Work with our various Risk Teams to ensure sufficient limits including (but not limited to) Single Name Exposure, Counterparty Credit, Key Rate Duration.


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:
  • Professional designation (CFA, CPA, or equivalent) and university degree in Finance or Accounting
  • 7+ years' front office experience in cross-currency relative value, interest rate hedging, and secured funding
  • Institutional-level HQLA asset experience with focus on relative value
  • Proven ability to make buy/sell recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Expertise in hedge accounting, bank capital management, and liquidity management
  • Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly across varied stakeholder groups


Nice-to-have:
  • IFRS and US GAAP accounting knowledge
  • Familiarity with Volcker Rule, Regulation W, and bank compliance
  • Performance management and management accounting experience


What's in it for you?

  • 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 senior level executives from many different parts of the organization


Job Skills
Cash Management, Currencies, Financial Derivatives, Financial Regulation, Financial Services Industry, Hedging, Interest Rates, Investments, Knowledge Organization, Management Reporting, Office Operations, Operational Risks, Risk Management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Strategic Thinking, Treasury Management

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:

OFFICE OF THE CFO

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-09-01

Application Deadline:

2026-09-18
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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