Director, Data Decisions

December 4 2024
Industries Bank, Insurance, Financial services
Categories Bank, Insurance, Financial services,
Toronto, ON • Full time

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Transform RBC's journey by ensuring that data is recognized and treated as a strategic asset and is utilized to its fullest potential, while complying to appropriate standards and policies. The role's mandate is to develop, implement, and continuously evolve a comprehensive set of frameworks to enable faster decision making on next gen data use cases and empower teams across the organization to leverage accessible data to optimize processes and create value. Through strategic leadership, robust governance, and technical enablement, we ensure that data is positioned to be leveraged as a key driver of innovation, operational efficiency, and sustained competitive advantage.

What will you do?

  • Review data trends, best practices and emerging data technologies and capabilities across the industry, incorporating innovation to continuously enhance data decision while supporting evolving business objectives.

  • Establish relationships and use influence to build innovative solutions and scale consistent data decision capabilities across RBC.

  • Manage relationships with business stakeholders and build deep understanding of their data needs across the Bank and communicate new data decisions and/or strategies effectively.

  • Define, documents and socialize requirements, user profiles, integrations, implementation plans, etc. with stakeholders both from the business and process and collaborate with functional partners (e.g. T&O) to develop and deliver automation efforts and change management.

  • Create frameworks to provide guidance and expedite key enterprise data decisions to create value through data while ensuring data decisioning adheres to regulatory and compliance frameworks, risk mitigation strategies and data security across the organization.

  • Ensure that data decisioning becomes a core competency throughout the organization by providing easy access to data resources, self-service analytics, insights while empowering teams with tools, optimized processes, and insights to unlock new business opportunities.

  • Document the best practices, decision-making process for new and complex data processes and manage the approval decision-trees through the creation of playbooks, roadmaps to establish clarity, standardized approach, and stakeholder engagement.

  • Champion the importance of data throughout the organization by promoting awareness and demonstrating the value of data insights in business outcomes, identify gaps in the existing landscape and provide recommendations.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

  • Detailed knowledge of financial services and experience in using data to drive business outcomes.

  • Broad experience in data management, controls and reporting.

  • Strong project leadership and organizational change management skills.

  • Exceptional people influence skills, including collaboration with multiple teams to build new automation and capabilities.

  • Post-Secondary education or equivalent

Nice to Have

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills coupled with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

  • Broad knowledge financial services information systems, data management applications, and "big data" tools such as Teradata, Collibra, SQL, Python, Snowflake, etc.

  • Knowledge of laws and regulations governing data uses such as GDPR, as well as internal process that must be followed such as ACA, PARA, etc.

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

  • Opportunities to do challenging work, opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities and opportunities to building close relationships with clients

  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

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Job Skills

Big Data Management, Critical Thinking, Data Governance, Knowledge Organization, Logical Data Modeling, Long Term Planning, Repository Tools, Results-Oriented, Risk Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

BAY WELLINGTON TOWER, 181 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CHIEF LEGAL & ADMIN OFFICE GRP

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-12-04

Application Deadline:

2025-01-03

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.
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