Director, Annual Audit Planning

Royal Bank of Canada•Jersey City, NJ

3d•$160,000 - $260,000

About The Position

What is the Opportunity? As the Director, Annual Audit Planning, you will lead the design, execution, and evolution of the global Annual Audit Planning (AAP) process across a large, complex Internal Audit (IA) function. As a leader within Internal Audit Practices & Reporting, you will own the methodology underpinning AAP while driving end-to-end execution of the annual plan – ensuring alignment to top enterprise risks, regulatory expectations, and strategic priorities. This is a high-impact role requiring both strategic judgment and operational excellence, with direct exposure to senior leadership (SVP/EVP) and influence over how IA delivers its global mandate. RBC’s CAE Group leverages a unique perspective — with a coordinated view across the entire business — to deliver valuable advice that not only gives assurance, but that illuminates a bigger picture, connects dots, builds best practices and broadens possibilities. We connect intelligence to protect and enable RBC. What will you do?

Requirements

Undergraduate degree
Deep Internal Audit expertise: Minimum 7 years’ experience in internal audit; strong understanding of annual internal audit planning, including regulatory expectations thereof
Strategic and analytical mindset
Proven leadership in complex environments

Nice To Haves

Professional designations (e.g., CIA, CPA, CA, CISA, CRMA)
Working background/experience with major business segments of RBC or comparable peer bank
Experience within Internal Audit Practices/Methodology/Transformation function

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the global AAP methodology: Ensure alignment to regulatory expectations and leading practices across peer institutions, and address increasing complexity
Lead end-to-end execution of AAP: Orchestrate the global process and lead analysis and approvals to deliver a high-quality, risk-aligned global audit plan
Drive insight through data and analysis: Monitor, analyze and report on coverage and risk alignment, translating complex data into clear, executive-level insights to support decision-making
Enable transformation and scalability: Partner with technology teams to support digitization of audit planning and reporting, simplifying and standardizing processes
Lead and develop a high-performing team: Build team capability to operate in a high-demand, fast-paced environment

Benefits

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
The expected salary range for this particular position is $160,000-260,000 , depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.
You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.
RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
Drives RBC’s high-performance culture
Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value