Senior Manager, Payments Security

Senior Manager, Payments Security (Global Security) Join to apply for the Senior Manager, Payments Security (Global Security) role at RBC. What is the opportunity? As a Senior Manager on the Payments Security team, you will safeguard RBC’s payments infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing execution of security assessments, governance processes, and attestation activities for payments applications, while driving enterprise alignment and standardization across these efforts. You will lead initiatives to evaluate and enhance the security posture of payments systems, ensuring resilience against emerging threats and compliance with regulatory requirements. What will you do? Lead the strategic planning and oversight of payments-related cyber security regulatory assessments to ensure compliance with enterprise control procedures and evolving security requirements. Establish and refine security assessment processes, procedures, and documentation to support audits, regulatory reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives. Drive initiatives to standardize, centralize, and integrate AI-driven automation into security assessments to enhance consistency, efficiency, and scalability while reducing manual resource demands. Foster cross-functional collaboration by coordinating with internal teams across Global Security, Payments, Tech Infrastructure, Group Risk Management, and AI innovation units to align enterprise-wide control standards, frameworks, and emerging technologies. Oversee the preparation, analysis, and delivery of comprehensive assessment reports to senior stakeholders, focusing on compliance status, security risks, AI-driven insights, and actionable improvement recommendations. What do you need to succeed? Must-have Leadership experience in managing teams, program governance and driving security programs at scale. Proven experience in cybersecurity risk management, industry best practices and control frameworks. Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to convey technical and risk information, make actionable recommendations to senior leadership and drive alignment and decision making across diverse groups. Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, capable of navigating complex risk environments and prioritizing initiatives. Relevant certifications in security or risk management: e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI Qualified Assessor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CompTIA Security+, GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA). Nice-to-have Direct experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, etc.). Knowledge of cyber security, compliance, security control frameworks and risk management principles. Ability to deploy agile or design thinking methodologies, tools and processes. Payments and financial services experience, particularly with international standards and regulations. Experience with automation and process improvement. What’s in it for you? A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation. Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities. Ability to make a difference and lasting impact. Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team. Opportunities to do challenging work. Flexible work/life balance options. At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all. I nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all. #J-18808-Ljbffr