Associate, Strategic Initiatives

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Royal Bank of Canada Full time

**Come Work with Us**

At RBC, our culture is deeply supportive and rich in opportunity and reward. You will help our clients thrive and our communities prosper, empowered by a spirit of shared purpose.

Whether you’re helping clients find new opportunities, developing new technology, or providing expert advice to internal partners, you will be doing work that matters in the world, in an environment built on teamwork, service, responsibility, diversity, and integrity.

**Job Title**

Associate, Strategic Initiatives

**What is the opportunity?**:
Do you have strong analytical skills? Do you have a passion for automation, data and technology? Do you have a solution-oriented mindset? Do you enjoy building relationships with internal and external partners?

As an Automation & Reporting Consultant, you will become a valuable member of the Global Credit Innovation & Solutions (GCIS) team within RBC Capital Market’s Global Credit function. You will develop (and/or work with IT partners to develop) automation and reporting solutions that support Global Credit’s strategies and business processes.

**What will you do?**:

- Complete automation projects end-to-end (from initial requirements to successful implementation), including but not limited to:

- Author automation requirements documentation
- Develop, maintain and enhance RPA (Robotic Process Automation, IE Blue Prism) solutions
- Work with IT partners to develop, maintain and enhance automation/system solutions
- Ensure all development is properly tested: Executing Unit Testing, Reviewing UAT, BAT and PIV
- Complete reporting projects/tasks from end-to-end, including but not limited to:

- Creating requirements for reporting
- Writing complex SQL queries (involving time-series data)
- Work with IT to create/modify database tables to enable/enhance reporting capabilities
- Create highly accurate and user-friendly reporting artefacts
- Ensure reports are fit-for-purpose and enable data-driven decisions
- Ensure all solutions implemented are strategic, flexible, and maximize benefit for the cost.
- Build relationships with stakeholders to:

- Understand business processes & objectives
- Facilitate progress on automation/reporting initiatives
- Extract new automation/reporting opportunities
- Redesign and optimize business processes in preparation for automation/reporting, being unafraid to challenge the status quo
- Adhere to common standards and development best practices for both automation and reporting initiatives
- Perform peer code reviews with other team members
- Participate in opportunity assessment, vetting for technical suitability and practicality while successfully interacting with stakeholders of varying seniority

**What do you need to succeed?**
**Must-have**
- Experience with RPA/Blue Prism
- Ability to confidently query data using SQL
- Business System Analysis and Project Execution experience
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong technical background with some coding experience (coding expertise not required)
- Self-motivation and highly developed organization skills that support an ability to multi-task with ease
- Experience and passion for technology
- Demonstrated curiosity for learning, especially in the discipline of automation technologies, coupled with a keen interest in problem solving

**Nice-to-have**
- Experience in 2 or more automation technologies (RPA / Blue Prism, NLP, Chatbots, etc).
- Proven relationship-building, collaboration and communication skills in order to create, maintain and enhance relationships with teammates, as well as internal and/or external partners
- Process Analysis and optimization experience
- Undergraduate degree with a focus in Computer Science, Business, Mathematics or other quantitative fields
- Ability to understand IT language and Business Language
- Experience interfacing with Business Clients to comprehend business requirements and develop technical or user process solutions
- Change Management skills
- Experience in Capital Markets in the Trading or Corporate Lending environment**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.
- Join a team which is making an impact for its senior and junior business audience(s)
- Enjoy work that allows you to channel your creativity for problem solving and solution design
- Build and maintain strong business relationships with various departments including Global Markets, ICCM (Institutional Client Credit Management), CTM (Credit & Transaction Management), Corporate Banking, IT
- Challenging work with a variety of assignments - every day is different**Job Summary**

**Address**:
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada**
City**:
CAN-ON-TORONTO**
Country**:
Canada**
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