Associate Director, Enterprise Market Risk Regulatory Capital Reporting & Analysis

Royal Bank of Canada•Toronto, ON

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The role of Associate Director, Enterprise Market Risk Regulatory Capital Reporting & Analysis is to ensure that all market risk regulatory capital reporting is provided to all stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner, with commensurate analytical insight and appropriate communication. The Associate Director will assist the Director, EMR Regulatory Capital Risk & Reporting by translating senior management’s requirements into clear and concise reports, ensuring an efficient reporting process that improves upon and leverages the current infrastructure. The Associate Director will ensure that the requisite inputs for complete and accurate reporting will be available for reporting periods by working closely with the Market Risk Reporting & Analysis team, the Global Risk Analytics team and the various Local Market Risk teams that contribute to the complete reporting data set. This is a key position for linking the current market environment to trading risks faced by RBC.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in front office trading or trading risk management roles
Good understanding of financial markets and trading businesses, both exchange traded and over the counter markets
Thorough knowledge of traded products including derivatives and their associated risks
Good understanding of the bank and broker-dealer regulatory environment
Working knowledge of trading book capital requirements
Excellent knowledge of MS Excel and exposure to MS Access and other database programs
Strong knowledge of programming languages, preferably Visual Basic and python
Excellent communication skills

Nice To Haves

MBA, MA or MS or equivalent with emphasis in finance, economics or a quantitative discipline
CFA, CA or other related professional qualifications

Responsibilities

Provide timely accurate and complete market risk regulatory and economic capital reporting and analysis, owning the end to end processes that facilitate this reporting stream.
Understand, analyze and communicate the drivers, trends and dependencies of the market risk regulatory and economic capital charges for RBC (and key sub-portfolios) and provide context therein with respect to changes in the market risk profile of the business
Maintain a thorough understanding of the methodologies used for FRTB Standardized Approach (SA) capital computations including Sensitivities Based (SBA), Default Risk (DRC), and Residual Risk (RRAO) charges
Compare and contrast FRTB SA Capital variance and drivers against current Business as Usual (BAU) internal risk metrics (VaR, SVaR, Stress, sensitivities)
Ensure that market risks are aggregated appropriately and accurately across asset classes, metrics, and business lines
Manage the initiatives around the build-out of the team’s frequency and scope of regulatory capital reporting by responding to ad hoc requests from senior members of GRM / business heads / Finance / Corporate Treasury and other departments / committees, providing analysis of proposed new business initiatives with regards to regulatory capital representation and ensuring oversight of the reporting framework, driving change and enhancements for improved controls, centralization and automation where feasible, ensuring alignment with current strategic initiatives
Provide a consistent and unified framework for reporting and analyzing trading book market risk regulatory capital across the bank
Participate in other ad hoc analysis around RBC’s market risk exposures. This includes longer-term trend analysis of historical risk results / concentration, forward-looking analysis of the impacts of new initiatives or regulatory changes (such as Quantitative Impact Studies and Complete Self Assessment Programs for the assessment of our Regulatory Capital measurement implementation.