Director Market Risk

Royal Bank of Canada

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TORONTO, Ontario, Canada Until 10/5/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 6, 2026 Last posted August 6, 2026
Job description

Job Description

The Director will lead a team of market risk professionals who provide risk management oversight and guidance to the different stakeholders through an independent and effective monitoring, controlling, and communicating of all material market risk positions–including developments, trends and concentrations; and ensures implementation of and compliance with risk management policies.


•    Partners closely with Business Lines, Enterprise Market Risk Reporting & Aggregation Teams, Local Market Risk Teams, and Finance, to ensure robust risk identification, measurement, monitoring, and reporting processes related to asset-liability management.

•    Partners with Market & Counterparty Credit Risk (MCCR) Risk Modernization and ALM Risk Transformation teams to collaborate on broader risk capture and reporting process improvements.

  • Develop and strengthen market risk practices and key oversight programs and conduct reasonability reviews of risk assessment around key activities.
  • Ownership of the market risk limit structure, including limit calibrations, annual limit reviews, and review and challenge of new limit requests with recommendations made to senior management.
  • Daily reporting and monitoring of market risk exposures against limits, escalating breaches to the appropriate conduct review forums.
  • Participate in annual Enterprise Market Risk Appetite calibration by providing guidance around future business plan and corresponding market risk impacts.
  • Provide senior management with forward-looking analysis on potential market developments, risk concentrations, and emerging trends that could result in significant financial losses under adverse conditions.
  • Perform gap analysis to identify remediation plans for adherence to internal policies and compliance with local and international regulatory requirements.
  • Enhance risk analytics and reporting dashboards for senior management visibility
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive Traded Risk Management policies and procedures and conduct due diligence for new products.
  • Develop and execute market risk projects to implement a feasible infrastructure and enable reliable market risk measures.

Job Skills

AI Risk Management, Balance Sheet Management, Business Analytics, Derivatives Markets, Effectiveness Measurement, Financial Derivatives, Financial Markets, Fixed-Income Markets, GitHub, Interest Rate Risk Management, Investment Banking Analysis, Long Term Planning, Market Analysis, Market Risk, Results-Oriented, Risk Management, Risk Management Analysis, SQL Coding, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Script

Additional Job Details

Address:

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-08-06

Application Deadline:

2026-08-31

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

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About this role

Summary

Lead market risk team, oversee risk monitoring, reporting, and policy development.

Job title

Director Market Risk

Experience level

senior level

Industry

financial services

Location requirements

Toronto, Canada; remote not allowed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

AI Risk ManagementBalance Sheet ManagementBusiness AnalyticsDerivatives MarketsEffectiveness MeasurementFinancial DerivativesFinancial MarketsFixed-Income MarketsGitHubInterest Rate Risk ManagementInvestment Banking AnalysisLong Term PlanningMarket AnalysisMarket RiskResults-OrientedRisk ManagementRisk Management AnalysisSQL CodingVBA

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

market riskrisk managementderivatives marketsinterest rate risk managementfinancial markets
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Toronto, ON, Canada

On-site City