Senior Market Risk Analyst

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

RBC is seeking a highly motivated individual to contribute to strategic initiatives across Market Risk teams, spanning reporting standardization, infrastructure enhancement, and enterprise-wide project delivery. This role will support the coordination and execution of projects across multiple market risk teams and regions, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives. The ideal candidate will bring strong programming and analytical skills, project management aptitude, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and cross-regional teams in a dynamic environment.

What will you do?

Strategic Project Management

• Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic projects across market risk teams and regions.
• Track project milestones, manage dependencies, and escalate risks or blockers to senior stakeholders.
• Create clear and concise written communications and presentation materials on project progress for committee meetings, working groups, and senior management.
• Draft supporting documentation, including methodology documents, process flow diagrams, and system lineage diagrams.

Market Risk Infrastructure Support

• Contribute to the improvement of Local Market Risk (LMR) infrastructure by identifying opportunities for data standardization and centralization.
• Assist in building analytic tools to enhance risk managers' risk assessment capabilities.
• Support sensitivities reconciliation efforts across businesses and regions, including analysis of identified breaks and collaboration with stakeholders to resolve issues.

Market Risk Report Standardization

• Review existing market risk reports and analyze IT infrastructures to identify opportunities for streamlining.
• Assist in developing reporting strategies and contribute to project planning.
• Work closely with IT to support the development and refinement of reporting-related processes.

Enterprise/Strategic Infrastructure Alignment

• Support efforts to align market risk reporting and infrastructure with broader enterprise initiatives (e.g., Risk Modernization Project).
• Act as a liaison between LMR and enterprise-level programs to ensure consistency in approach and minimize duplication of effort.
• Collaborate with teams across Group Risk Management (GRM) to share relevant tools, frameworks, and information.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field.
• 1–2 years of experience at an Investment Bank with exposure to market risk and knowledge of trading products.
• Proficiency in tools and systems used for data analysis and reporting (e.g., Python, Excel, SQL, or similar).
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large data sets and identify trends or issues.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create clear documentation and presentations.
• Autonomous and highly motivated with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and work both independently and collaboratively.
• Exposure to or interest in regulatory capital frameworks (e.g., FRTB) is an asset.

Suggested Qualifications:

• Knowledge of market risk modelling.
• Experience with AI tools.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional or cross-regional projects.
• Familiarity with enterprise-level change programs within a risk management context.

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 competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as a 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 position is $85,000-$145,000 (New York), depending on 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 provides an opportunity to increase total compensation if business targets are met and individual goals are achieved.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and play 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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Job Skills

Analytical Skills (Inactive), Data Science, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB), GitHub, Market Risk, Microsoft SQL Server, Position Reconciliation, Python (Programming Language), Python for Data Analysis, Python Numpy, Quantitative Methods, Reporting Processes, Risk Analytics, Risk Control, Risk Models, Risk Reporting, SQL Database Queries, Statistics, Structured Query Language (SQL), System Applications, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address: BROOKFIELD PLACE FKA 3 WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, 200 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK

City: New York

Country: United States of America

Work hours/week: 40

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2026-06-09

Application Deadline: 2026-09-05

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

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