Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As a Senior Business Analyst in the Business Solutions & Integration Group, within Capital Markets, the incumbent will necessarily be exposed to a wide range of interesting business and technical problems in the execution of the operational support and BA roles.

The successful incumbent will support the group in following areas of BSI:

• • BA and operational business responsibilities in the daily production and remediation of XVA and MCAD VA valuations, risks and PNL explain for the Resource Management Group (RMG) and;
  • BA support in the delivery of RMG and other Enterprise Programs.

What will you do?

Responsibilities and expectations of the incumbent in the two primary roles are the following:

1. Operational Business Support

Contribution in a leadership or partnering role to:

• • Support all RMG EOD processes including job setup and execution and management of market, trade, counterparty, reference and other input data;
  • Provide 2nd level business production support in the remediation of production issues at the EOD (Toronto time) or at the SOD (London time) and;
  • Support the desk with asks such as the setup and onboarding of new batches.

1. BA Support for RMG and other Enterprise Projects

There are a number of RMG business driven projects and Enterprise change initiatives in which the BSI group plays leadership or supporting roles. As a Senior Business Analyst the incumbent would be expected to consult and contribute technical knowledge and large project planning and execution knowledge through the:

• • Facilitation of planning and requirements gathering meetings
  • Producing technical and business specifications and diagramming target state views of new processes, application UIs or component features;
  • Leading or participating in joint business, front-office Quant, and IT solutioning sessions
  • Supporting the program manager in the identification of and remediation of project risks and issues
  • Developing and executing test plans, working with traders, Risk, Finance, and front-office Quants, and IT.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• • Possess solid knowledge of derivative instruments acquired through 3-5 years working in Capital Markets environment and from exposure to front-office trading or valuations systems
  • Understand SDLC/QA processes / methodologies and have experience with agile and waterfall requirement gathering and project delivery approaches
  • Be a committed team player with a flexible, enthusiastic attitude, good communication skills and an ability to adapt and multi-task.
  • Demonstrated ability to solve problems with an exceptional attention to detail
  • Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to lead scrum sessions and working groups.
  • Strong Excel, MS Project, Visio, VBA programming skills and have experience working with relational databases

Nice-to-have

• • Certified Business Analyst designation
  • Training in the BABOK ® knowledge base
  • Hold a Certified Project Manager (PMP ®) designation
  • A degree or training in computer science and / or mathematics
  • Demonstrated experience leading business architecture solutioning workshops
  • Experience working on or supporting an XVA desk
  • Experience work on large-scale trading floor transformation projects
  • Ability to code in VBA and Python would be a definite advantage
  • Experience writing technical specification documents

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
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Flexible work/life balance options

Role Expectations

• • Review and comply with Firm Policies applicable to your business activities
  • Escalate operational risk loss events, control deficiencies and risks that you identify to your line manager and the relevant risk and control functions on a timely basis.
  • Identify, assist and manage operational risks/control deficiencies in the business.
  • Work to prevent, to detect, and to eliminate the potential for risk and liability to the firms.

About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com.

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Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.

JOB SUMMARY

City: Toronto
Address: 200 Bay Street
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salaried
Required Travel (%): 0
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 01/31/2021
Req ID: 305998

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