Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Analyst - AI Models Risk and Governance

Royal Bank of Canada$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bold passion for AI and emerging technologies
  • 3-5 years of experience in product management, information security, or risk management
  • Creative problem-solving skills and positive energy
  • Expertise in IT risk assessments using frameworks and best practices
  • Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills

Responsibilities

  • Ensure AI compliance with regulations and close risk findings
  • Define key performance metrics and build a real-time model performance dashboard
  • Forge alliances for streamlined certification processes in GenAI projects
  • Guide compliance with model risk documentation and leverage innovative technology
  • Implement control testing and monitoring automation to drive efficiencies
  • Establish and lead the Model Risk and Governance Centre of Enablement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support for personal development through coaching
  • Opportunity to make a lasting impact
  • Collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team environment
  • Access to a world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Engagement in challenging work opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

As a Senior Analyst - AI Models Risk and Governance, you are the strategic accelerator that takes our initiatives from concept to real world. You will provide sound risk advisory and compliance services to help navigate the ever-evolving risk landscape for Gen AI initiatives within the AI Advice Centre team. Think of yourself as the high-speed rail that allows our AI Advice Centre team to move fast while ensuring our AI-driven solutions are both groundbreaking and risk compliant.

This role is a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between IT, Business, and Risk, collaborating with top-tier stakeholders to architect the future of digital banking. If you're a dynamic go-getter, passionate about AI, and shaping the future of Gen AI driven initiatives within Contact Centre, this is your playground.

WHAT WILL YOU DO
  • Model Risk, Governance and Compliance Management: Be the AI compliance trailblazer, ensuring all GenAI use cases meet regulatory standards while closing risk findings within the allotted remediation timeframes.
  • Model Performance Framework: Partner with business teams to define key performance metrics and build a state-of-the-art dashboard that tracks model performance and trends in real time.
  • Risk Management: Forge strategic alliances with the Enterprise Model Risk Management (EMRM) team to streamline certification processes, making GenAI projects smoother and more efficient.
  • Risk Documentation and Remediation: Guide teams through model risk compliance with a focus on innovation, leveraging LLMs and agentic workflows to streamline documentation and summarize the risk landscape for executive audiences.
  • Risk Monitoring and Automation: Partner with stakeholders to implement control testing/monitoring automation where possible, driving efficiencies for coverage/assurance.
  • Centre of Enablement: Champion the establishment of the Model Risk and Governance Centre of Enablement for Advice Centre & Branch Technology, serving as its spokesperson and steward, leading knowledge-sharing initiatives that empower engineering speed while ensuring uncompromising compliance.


WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have:
  • A bold passion for AI and emerging technologies, with a vision for how they can transform risk governance.
  • 3-5 years of accelerated, high-impact experience in product management, information security or risk management, with a track record of turning complex regulatory challenges into engineering enablement.
  • Creative problem-solving skills, positive energy, and the ability to challenge the status quo to constantly innovate and streamline processes.
  • Expertise in IT risk assessments, using frameworks, policies, and industry best practices to drive tangible results.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and guide cross-functional, agile teams.


Nice-to-have:
  • Advocacy for Safe AI adoption and a deep understanding of best practices.
  • The ability to translate technical jargon into actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels.
  • A strategic mindset and excellent interpersonal skills to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Experience with Agile delivery and a love for dynamic, iterative workflows.
  • Familiarity with RBC's Enterprise Model Risk Policies and a desire to shape their future.


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
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


Job Skills
AI Risk Management, Audits Compliance, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Emerging Technologies, Industry Knowledge, Information Security, Internal Controls, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Product Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking

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:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-09

Application Deadline:

2026-08-13
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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