Associate Director, Trade Surveillance Strategy Officer

Job Overview

Be a part of a global Compliance Surveillance team responsible for designing and implementing surveillance scenarios and controls. In this role, you will analyze and integrate transaction data and oversee development to implement market manipulation trade surveillance scenarios and controls for RBC Capital Markets and Wealth Management businesses.

Responsibilities

• Design trade surveillance scenarios and write business requirement documents.
• Analyze transaction data feeds to integrate with existing trade surveillance scenarios and identify enhancements.
• Identify data‑driven enhancements or supplements to the surveillance controls.
• Facilitate user testing of the surveillance scenarios and coordinate promotion of the scenarios to production.
• Manage the implementation of multiple concurrent projects, monitor and control activities, identify potential issues, conflicts, and risks, and present book of work status.
• Develop the annual BoW, work with Technology to define the budget, and track spend against the budget.
• Work with regional teams to define business and technology requirements for the surveillance program, including technology selection and surveillance development.
• Establish strong working relationships across Surveillance and collaborate on cross‑functional Compliance initiatives and manage the effective implementation of assigned deliverables.

Qualifications

Must have:

• Extensive knowledge of trade data and trade flow for wealth management trading businesses.
• Demonstrated communication skills with strong presentation abilities; ability to summarize issues, propose solutions, and determine stakeholder communication needs.
• Strong organizational, project management, and time‑management capabilities.
• Deadline‑driven and results‑oriented; able to meet consistently high‑quality standards while handling multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.

Nice‑to‑have:

• Experience with data science that enhances business processes.
• Knowledge of trade surveillance techniques and methodology.
• Experience with agile development and general software development standards.
• Some experience with communications surveillance.
• Experience working in a global organization with teams across multiple regions on large, complex initiatives.

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and management opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team.
• A world‑class training program in financial services.
• Flexible work/life balance options.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.

Job Skills

Change Management, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Detail‑Oriented, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Prioritization, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking

Location & Employment Details

• Address: RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO
• City: Toronto
• Country: Canada
• Work hours/week: 37.5
• Employment Type: Full time
• Pay Type: Salaried
• Posted Date: 2026-06-15
• Application Deadline: 2026-07-11