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Hybrid Associate Director – Product Control Business Re-Engineering & Automation
Posted 5 days ago
About the role
- Associate Director responsible for Product Control automation solutions at RBC. Leading transformative initiatives for Macro products with strong technical capabilities using Python and VBA.
Responsibilities
- Lead data validation and business requirements definition for Macro PC onboarding onto PLANET, RBC’s centralised reporting platform, covering FX, Flow Rates, Structured Rates, and Commodities, identifying gaps and remediation actions.
- Support testing, UAT, and data quality validation for platform onboarding and BAU release cycles, ensuring P&L, balance sheet, and reporting outputs are accurate and complete.
- Design and build Python and VBA-based automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve control across EUC processes during the platform transition.
- Lead re-engineering of Macro PC workflows to ensure compatibility with centralised platform data flows, booking conventions, and reporting hierarchies.
- Assess, catalogue, and prioritise the Macro PC EUC landscape for stabilisation or elimination, defining and executing an EUC elimination roadmap over time.
- Work closely with the SOP/BPM team to translate newly drafted standards into actionable operational change within Macro PC, identifying and closing gaps between current practice and agreed standards.
- Build trusted working relationships with Macro PC controllers and stakeholders, facilitating workshops and discovery sessions to drive collaborative process redesign.
- Share knowledge of platform capabilities with Macro PC teams and support the development of runbooks and training materials in collaboration with the BPM team.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience in a Product Control, Finance Change, or Finance Transformation role within a capital markets environment
- Strong understanding of Macro products (FX, Rates, and Commodities) and the associated P&L and balance sheet reporting lifecycle
- Hands-on proficiency in Python, including pandas, with the ability to write end-to-end data extraction, transformation, and reconciliation scripts independently
- Hands-on proficiency in VBA for Excel and Access automation, with the ability to assess, refactor, and document legacy EUC tools to production standard
- Experience auditing and rationalising an EUC landscape, including cataloguing tools, assessing risk, and delivering structured remediation or elimination plans
- Experience implementing process change in line with documented SOPs and standards, with the ability to interpret process documentation and drive adoption with the business.
- Familiarity with BPM frameworks sufficient to interpret and implement documented standards effectively.
- Experience defining and executing an EUC-to-platform migration roadmap in a regulated financial environment.
- Accounting qualification not essential but experience gained within a Product Control department highly desirable.
- Familiarity with SQL to interrogate source systems, validate data flows, and support upstream analysis.
- Comfortable with other transformation tools such as Power Query, Power Automate, or equivalent as the situation demands.
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Opportunities to work with the best in the field
- 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.
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