What is the opportunity?

Collects, identifies, analyzes and interprets business data using various techniques to meet the organization's business needs and requirements. Applies experience and seasoned knowledge, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments.

What will you do?

​​PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Fully knowledgeable on the day to day activities of a product or process and acts as an effective layer of escalation for junior or less experienced staff on complex issues. 

• Knows when to escalate and does so appropriately. 

• May have oversight of a team of junior staff to ensure all daily responsibilities are completed. 

• Holds technical expertise and is known inside and outside of immediate Ops team as subject matter expert. 

• Develops and harnesses ideas for process improvement; understands core business or regulatory reason for function; thoughtful about risk and performance metrics for team. 

• May be responsible for various projects to improve efficiencies.  Has a clear understanding of the firm’s different businesses.

CAPITAL MARKETS LLC/BROKER DEALER FUNDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Daily funding of firm bank accounts*

• Responsible for timely deposits to/from 15C3-3 accounts.

• Responsible for intraday liquidity monitoring and reporting.

• Responsible for timely deposits to various Clearing Organizations

• Planning and coordinating with other groups to meet funding needs

• Syndicate Operations – to determine need for day loans in order to intra-day finance new issues underwritten by RBC.

• Treasury Clearance – as a conduit to the Repo Desk to raise or reduce cash as needed.

• Foreign Settlements – To forecast key cash needs for all US Dollar securities settling overseas.

• Stock Loan Desk – To determine their use of funds to enable accurate forecasting

• Repo Desk – As the group responsible for raising or laying off funds, we need to work with the Repo Desk throughout the day.

• Affiliated legal entities for their daily settlement versus the Broker Dealer

AFFILIATE FUNDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Daily funding across select entities engaging in below products types/activities:

• Equities, Fixed Income & Derivative (both Listed & OTC)

• Stock Loan/Stock Borrow

• Repo/Reverse Repo

• Overnight and Term Loans

•  Various miscellaneous payments/receipts as provided internally from Product Control/Financial Control

• Book and track overnight and term loans

• Daily bank reconciliations for proprietary trading entities

• Manage related bank accounts to ensure proper funding daily - approx 10-15 bank accounts (USD & Multi-CCY) in our control currently

• Projecting future settlements and other funding needs

• Provide the forecasts to appropriate MM Desks throughout Toronto and London to ensure proper coordination.

• Daily reconciliation of funding suspense accounts

• Wire processing and approvals through various internal system and banking portals

ACCOUNTING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Post daily accruals & cash flow activity to multiple GL’s. Includes accruals on Bank Loans, Stock Loan/Borrow, Repo/Reverse Repo, & Custodian Cash Balances

• Process the Cost of Carry function across multiple trading units.

• Monthly reconciliation & Attestation for all Cash, Loan, & Accrual GL accounts

• Assist Product Control with P&L/Carry related issues whenever possible.

• Assist Financial Control with monthly reconciliation issues

• Prepare month-end reporting for Home Office/Financial Control

What you need to succeed?

Basic Qualifications

• This role would typically require some functional and industry experience and/or expertise, as they are expected to be subject area experts in one (or more) specific skill sets, business areas or products.

• Requires a level of maturity and ability to form relationships across the Firm to do things to do things the RBC way (e.g., focuses on "How" and "what").

• Typically requires at least 4 years of relevant industry and operations experience, expertise and relationships.

• Undergraduate Degree in related field of study i.e. Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Business Management, Economics.

Other Required Qualifications:

Advanced knowledge of the following concepts through prior experience or college coursework is preferred:

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE

• Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivative products & associated settlement cycle

• Stock Lending and Borrowing

• Repo/Reverse Repo agreements

• Initial and Variation Margin management; Futures, Swaps etc.

• Foreign currency funding

• US Banking and cash flows

TREASURY

• Bank loan management, including day loan, overnight loan, secured and unsecured borrowing

• Issuing and calculating funding rates and spreads

• Allocating interest expense back to the business units

• Intra-day liquidity and collateral tracking & reporting

• Prior day liquidity and collateral tracking & reporting

FINANCE/ACCOUNTING

• General ledger postings

• Daily bank reconciliations

• General ledger reconciliations

• Balance Sheet Analysis

Suggested Qualifications:

• Expert Level MS Excel. Intermediate VBA & SQL skills.

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 include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.

• 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.

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

• Opportunities to build close relationships with clients.

The expected salary range for this particular position is $75,000 - $105,000 USD, 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

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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 believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.