Royal Bank of Canada

Manager, Business Continuity Risk

Royal Bank of Canada • $100K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University degree or equivalent
  • 5+ years in operational risk management within financial services
  • Strong understanding of Business Continuity Risk Management
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Effective program management and planning abilities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience in a complex, matrix environment with diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Provide BCRM subject matter expertise to RBC Business Units
  • Support business units in managing business continuity risk
  • Partner with business units to identify risks and populate business impact analysis
  • Develop recovery strategies and contingency plans with business units
  • Identify recovery time gaps and assist in developing workarounds
  • Coordinate testing of plans and workarounds with business units
  • Support the incident management process as needed

Benefits

  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities for greater responsibilities and accountabilities
Full Job Description
Job Description

What's the Opportunity?

As Manager, Business Continuity Risk, you are responsible for the execution of the Business Continuity Risk Management (BCRM) Program within Personal Banking and Commercial Banking Canada. As a key contributor, this role will provide BCRM subject matter expertise and work directly with the RBC Business Units and Business Risk Managers regarding all policy and standard requirements, ensure viable recovery strategies and business continuity plans are tested. The Manager, Business Continuity Risk also supports RBC Business Unit to prepare and respond to incidents.

What will you do?

  • Provide BCRM subject matter expertise and work directly with the RBC Business Units
  • Support RBC Business units in the ownership and management of business continuity risk to ensure adherence to the BCRM program, policy and standard
  • Partner with RBC Business Units to ensure all business continuity risks have been identified and populated within the business impact analysis (BIA)
  • Partner with RBC Business Units to develop clear requirements for recovery strategies & internal contingency plans (long, medium, and short term) and workarounds, including protocols for invoking Business Continuity Plans
  • Identify RBC Business Unit recovery time and point objective gaps or single point of failure, challenging business requirements as required and assist in developing workarounds
  • Support the planning and coordination with RBC Business Units to validate plans and workarounds by testing severe but plausible scenarios
  • Support the incident management process, as required


What you need to succeed?

Must- have

  • University degree, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in executing operational risk management practices in the financial services industry, including implementing appropriate strategies to mitigate risk
  • Strong understanding of Business Continuity Risk Management
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio)
  • Strong critical thinking skills, with the ability to independently recognize problems, propose solutions and execute on them
  • Strong program management skills with the ability to independently create and execute a detailed plan
  • Strong presentation and communication (verbal and written) skills
  • Effective collaboration skills
  • Experience working in a complex, matrix environment and proactively managing a diverse set of stakeholders


Nice-to-have

  • Operational Risk Management or Internal Audit background
  • Business experience in executing business continuity plans
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements and leading practices regarding Operational Risk
  • Experience of working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities


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.

  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities


Job Skills
Communication, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Operational Risks, Risk Control, Risk Management, Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-10-01

Application Deadline:

2026-10-09
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

About Royal Bank of Canada

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