Senior Manager, Digital Transformation

Who we are

RBC Capital Markets is an award-winning global investment bank, which provides expertise in banking, finance and capital markets to corporations, institutional investors and governments around the world. Our global network of highly skilled professionals works collaboratively to provide clients with strategic advice and analysis, innovative ideas and solutions, strong market distribution and superior execution.

The team

The Business and Client Services (BCS) group is the functional core of RBC Capital Markets' trading activities. We provide our business partners greater efficiency, scalability and control within their operational processing, helping to ensure the firm's continued growth and success.

Within the Digital Transformation and Business Architecture teams, we shape and advance the BCS transformation roadmap through a holistic lens including people, processes, data and technologies. Through a variety of tools and methodologies, our team strives to clearly articulate a vision for the future of our business, and drive towards it, in collaboration with our IT partners.

As a Senior Manager of Strategy & Digital Transformation, a typical day might include the following:

• Strategy development and transformation planning and execution
• Functional capability model development and ownership
• Roadmap development and ownership
• Thought-leadership on key and emerging technologies, competitive landscape and capital markets transformation
• Intake and backlog management, opportunity discovery and prioritization
• Business casing, opportunity analysis and pitch materials
• Development of elements of the client journey and experience ownership
• Identify improvement opportunities in BCS, and research and identify the right solution
• Liaise with and manage cross-functional teams to architect, implement, test and continuously deliver solutions to our clients
• Presenting key strategies to communicate vision, roadmap and achieve buy-in from senior management and stakeholders
• Report progress of project status, milestones, and achievements to stakeholders
• Lead the comprehensive mapping, analysis and redesign of business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for technology & automation, process improvements and home-of-best-fit recommendations
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and service providers in assessing new technologies and industry trends

Who we're looking for

• You are a strategic thinker with enterprise vision
• You are results-oriented and focused on user, client and business outcomes
• You develop and leverage structured approaches, frameworks and toolkits
• You are an inspiring culture and change champion
• You can captivate an audience through engaging communication and influence
• You are highly capable of learning quickly and deeply
• You have experience partnering closely with a variety of stakeholders and are comfortable presenting to senior executives
• You have a bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in financial services
• You have a broad view of the enterprise and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Lead the comprehensive mapping, analysis and redesign of business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for technology & automation, process improvements and home-of-best-fit recommendations
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and service providers in assessing new technologies and industry trends

Nice to have

• You have relevant and strong experience in capital markets and financial operations, particularly payments
• You have a great understanding of the industry trends in digitization and automation space, software providers and the factors that differentiate an organization
• You have working knowledge of applying business architecture principles to business solutions
• You have strong product leadership skills and the ability to own a portfolio of projects end-to-end independently, including a track record of successful product deliveries
• You have experience with Agile methodologies, mindset and tooling including JIRA and Confluence
• Proven experience in consulting or similar strategic, transformation focused industry roles considered an asset

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

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