# Strategic Execution Leader

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

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## Description

The Strategic Execution team within the Chief Legal and Administrative Office (CLAO) plays a critical role in driving highly visible, enterprise-level transformation initiatives. We are seeking a high-performing and motivated leader to join our team to lead the delivery of enterprise-wide strategic and regulatory initiatives.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with business stakeholders to assess needs, identify optimization opportunities and execute on program deliverables, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and fostering collaboration across stakeholders

- Lead and facilitate working groups with cross-functional teams to shape strategic direction, triage issues, and drive progress on enterprise-level initiatives, ensuring effective coordination and accountability

- Contribute to senior management materials preparation, including Executive Steering Committees, and other program forums, ensuring clear, concise, and impactful communication of program updates, risks, and key decisions

- Support program status reporting across the program and at the executive level to ensure program goals and objectives are executed and consistently communicated, enabling transparency and informed decision-making

- Maintain project plans and ensure that tasks are on track to meet project milestones, identifying and resolving potential roadblocks proactively

- Facilitate issue resolution and escalation, manage interdependencies, and ensure the accurate and timely maintenance of the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) log to support effective program delivery and governance

- Engage with third-party suppliers/consultants as needed to deliver on program objectives, while ensuring alignment with internal delivery standards and governance frameworks

- Provide leadership and guidance to junior staff, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration within the Strategic Execution team

**Requirements:**

- Undergraduate university degree in Business, Finance or a related field required

- MBA or relevant professional designation strongly preferred

- 5+ years of project management experience with a demonstrated track record of leadership, problem-solving, and relationship management

- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

- Ability to collaborate, partner with senior business stakeholders, project managers and team members

- Advanced proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, lookups) and PowerPoint (strong storyboarding of executive presentations)

- Comfort with ambiguity

**Nice to Have:**

- Management Consulting experience

- Regulatory programs and/or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) experience

- Experience with Financial Crimes functions such as High-Risk Clients, Financial Investigation Unit, Analytics, KYC, Sanctions, etc…

- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified

- Experience with enterprise transformation initiatives

**What's in it for you?**

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Variety of assignments over the course of your placement

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team

- Opportunities to do challenging work

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- leadership
- problem-solving
- relationship management
- communication
- Excel
- PowerPoint

### Nice to have
- Management Consulting
- regulatory programs
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Financial Crimes
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- enterprise transformation initiatives

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