# Third-Party Disaster Recovery Risk Assessor

**Company**: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role is critical to the success of the T&O Business Continuity & Third-Party Disaster Readiness team’s ability to build and maintain a successful Centre of Excellence.

You will support the end-to-end process for assessing, monitoring, and validating suppliers’ disaster recovery (DR) capabilities, ensuring alignment with corporate resilience standards, internal risk frameworks, and applicable regulatory expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing oversight and support to business units for the identification, mitigation, and remediation of third-party disaster recovery risks.

- Conducting third-party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments for new, existing, and renewed contracts.

- Identifying and escalating material risks, unresponsiveness, delayed service level agreements (SLAs), and critical deficiencies to senior leadership.

- Supporting the evaluation of concentrated supplier risks and recommending strategies to mitigate single points of failure.

- Documenting end-to-end requirements for meeting new obligations in Third Party Disaster Recovery risk assessment, monitoring, and reporting.

- Looking for opportunities to automate processes, communication, and/or reporting.

- Partnering with Line of Business teams, IT Risk, BCM, Supplier Management Office, and SaaS Architecture to ensure comprehensive and accurate DR assessments.

- Acting as a subject matter expert to support supplier engagements, contract negotiations, and renewal discussions related to resilience and disaster recovery provisions.

Requirements:

- University/College Degree in a relevant or applicable field.

- 2-4 years of experience in performing risk assessment and related reporting and tracking.

- Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management.

- Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and Third-Party Supplier Lifecycle.

- Ability to understand policies, standards, and related regulatory requirements.

- Ability to work independently or within team structures.

Nice to have:

- Working with financial institutions or a similar large organization.

- Software/system implementation experience for SaaS/cloud solutions.

- Some knowledge or experience with MSA/contractual agreements.

Benefits:

- 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
- Cyber Security Management
- Information Security Management
- IT Network Security
- Operational Delivery
- Problem Management
- Process Management
- Threat Management
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)

### Nice to have
- Software/system implementation experience for SaaS/cloud solutions
- MSA/contractual agreements
- Working with financial institutions

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