Manager, Major Initiatives Advisory

Job Description What is the opportunity?

This role offers a dynamic opportunity to serve as a financial advisor to the Major Initiatives PMO team, where you will be instrumental in driving strategic financial planning and analysis across RBC's Capital Markets division. You will build strong partnerships with Major Initiative Projects, providing comprehensive financial advisory support that enhances project delivery and strengthens Finance's strategic alignment. Your key responsibilities will include developing scalable frameworks for project controls, reporting, and analytics, while delivering exceptional financial analysis to support continuous performance monitoring.

You will enable critical business decisions through rigorous financial analysis spanning investment prioritization, staffing optimization, and asset planning. This fast-paced, high-visibility role is ideal for forward-thinking professionals who thrive in innovative environments, embrace complex challenges, and are committed to making a tangible impact on RBC's strategic priorities around productivity and efficiency.

• Prepare financial insights for the head of Major Initiatives and the Regulatory Review Board to enable strategic decisions on investments, hiring and cost management. This spans both departmental expenditures as well as financial insights and advisory to the group’s interactions with other CM businesses on a recurring basis.
• Further enhance and build on Finance’s internal capabilities in cost reporting to proliferate learnings and best practices across CM Finance’s Advisory teams.
• Building subject matter expertise on all cost lines and opportunities that can be used to further support cost saving initiatives.
• Responsible for the financial governance, reporting, controllership and advisory to CM Major Initiatives such as the IBOR program, Regulatory Margin Requirements and Global Surveillance Programs. This includes a deep understanding of the allocation of each project to the front office.
• Proliferate the use of technologies such as Tableau and automation to create scale and standardization across projects.
• Support the Project Management Office and represent CM CFO across these programs by helping to create materials for their governance forums (e.g., Steering Committees, Executive Committees).
• Support the development of PAR Financials and analysis of proposed business cases for CM to ensure alignment with CM priorities.
• Provide line of sight and business case review for COO sponsored initiatives.
• Perform select month end close activities and assist in the preparation of transit financial plan for select COO Functions areas and monitoring variances to forecast.

• Undergraduate degree in finance/business or related fields
• 2 Years' Experience in complex wholesale business activity, namely a thorough understanding of Capital Markets businesses and transactions, and associated risks & returns.
• Experience in management reporting and analysis, stakeholder interactions and relationship management.
• Strong team and people management abilities, and ability to play a leadership role across a wide group of peers.
• Keen sense of numbers and strong analytical skills with ability to multitask and handle high-pressure executive level requests on a continuous basis
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with a strong ability to influence stakeholders and mobilize groups to deliver on common goals.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to consistently exercise independent thought and judgment and adapt to new tasks quickly.
  
  Proactive and persistent in issue resolution.
• Experience in complex wholesale business activity, management reporting and analysis, and/or financial resource optimization (capital, funding, and liquidity).
• Very strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Presentation skills required, with data mining skill and ability to explore new technologies to enhance the delivery of financial information.

• Pursuing CPA or CFA designation
• Solid experience and good understanding of bank structure, financial markets and instruments