Senior Associate / Associate Director - Projects and Reg Reporting - Chief Financial Office

$80,000 - $190,000/Yr

Royal Bank of Canada - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

10,001+ employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Associate or Associate Director within the U.S. CFO Operations Office, Data Strategy & Analytics group will lead strategic initiatives across the US Finance team, focusing initially on Regulatory Reporting. This role is pivotal in transforming business processes and collaborating with various functions and stakeholders across the Enterprise. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining comprehensive project plans that align with corporate strategy, particularly in regulatory and business innovation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Enhance existing Regulatory Reporting processes, including TIC series.
• Manage all front-to-back aspects of a project to ensure that milestones are accomplished within a set deadline.
• Partner across functions, including regulatory report owners to collect current state requirements to support the adoption of various strategic solutions.
• Ensure effective execution of analysis and requirements gathering by team members.
• Lead the execution and implementation of the end-to-end change management cycle (program/project initiation through project closure and postmortems).
• Lead Working Group meetings with cross-functional teams to deliver results, triage issues, and drive progress.
• Prepare senior management meeting materials.
• Perform risk assessments in order to identify potential risks/opportunities and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Successfully deliver the implementation of all project objectives and ensure business stakeholders are well-informed of the future-state benefits.
• Represent the business needs while interfacing with functional and technology teams for major initiatives, working collaboratively on scope and plan definition.
• Manage multiple Regulatory and Data Strategy tasks simultaneously.
• Prepare budget approval submissions, change requests and partner with stakeholders to determine impact analysis.

Requirements

• Graduate or Undergraduate Degree, with a focus in Business, Finance, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of US regulatory space, including reporting, bank capital management, and stress testing processes.
• Prior experience with regulatory-focused projects/initiatives.

Benefits

• 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.
• Flexible work/life balance options.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business.