Associate, Investment Analytics, RBC Wealth Management

Job title: Associate, Investment Analytics, RBC Wealth Management

Job description: What is the Opportunity?

RBC Wealth Management is one of the world’s top 10 largest wealth managers. RBC Wealth Management directly serves affluent, high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) clients in Canada, the United States and select international markets with a full suite of banking, investment, trust and other wealth management solutions. The business also provides asset management products and services directly and through RBC and third party distributors to institutional and individual clients, through its RBC Global Asset Management business (which includes BlueBay Asset Management).

Are you looking to help move forward the advanced analytics capabilities of an investment group from early stages to beyond? Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining performance, risk and advanced analytics reporting for RBC Wealth Management Investment & Trading group (I&T) in Canada. If you are detail-oriented, eager to learn, ready to apply both investment and technical knowledge skills, this Associate position in our Investment Management Analytics team might be the right opportunity for you. Help us deliver the best portfolio and market insights, in addition to the tools to support the needs of our portfolio managers and strategists.

What will you do?

• Learn the business as usual for performance and risk management to support our investment committees.
• Help improve processes as we integrate new datasets to automate business as usual where possible.
• Support the development of our data pipelines and methods to deliver insights (web, tableau, excel, etc) to our various equity and multi-asset portfolio specialists.
• Support I&T’s ability to capitalize on opportunities to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of RBC Wealth Management’s investment strategy by partnering with the Investments & Trading team and various groups across RBC focused on improving our analytics processes and capabilities.
• Ensure accuracy and quality through production of summaries and reports while meeting timelines on recurring reporting needs.
• Ensure policies and procedures are implemented and documented.
• Conduct Ad hoc projects, data extractions or analysis as directed.
• Be a part of a start-up like setting where fast-fail is highly valued, level of uncertainty is high and requirements are not all defined in advance (iterative feedback loop).

What do you need to succeed?
Must Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Finance, Economics, Computer Science or related quantitative discipline (e.g., Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics)
• Experience/interest in performance and risk reporting and analysis.
• Pursuing/interest in Chartered Financial Analyst or other finance/risk training or designation
• Knowledge of SQL and at least one programming language (Python, R, Matlab, C, C#, Java, etc).
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills. Good communication with peers and end users, to understand and translate the business requirements into data-related recommendations and solutions.
• Knowledge of financial systems (FactSet, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc) and working with time series data from these vendors.
• Drive to ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including data sourcing/collection, normalization, and transformation.
• Great attention to detail.

Nice to Have

• Experience using Git, Github, Zenhub. Experience in agile design methodologies and frameworks.
• Experience working with Tableau.
• Experience using cloud-enabled technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically S3, Athena, EMR, RDS, or other AWS database related products.
• Experience with big data analytics technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka); experience compiling, manipulating and analyzing large datasets, with a good understanding of data processing frameworks.

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.

• Opportunities to do challenging work, and to gain wide breadth of exposure in the Operational Risk space, including Supplier/Third Party risk, Legal and Regulatory risk, IT risk, as well as other aspects of product, financial, project and Fraud risk.
• Gain a breadth of experience and exposure to the global WM platform
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com.

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Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.

JOB SUMMARY

City: Toronto
Address: 155 Wellington St. W
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salaried
Required Travel (%): 0
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 02/07/2022
Req ID: 445856

Posting Notes:

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