Job Description

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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 youre 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 Branch Director



What is the Opportunity?

With C$217 billion in assets under administration, RBC Dominion Securities is the Canadian leader in wealth management for affluent and high net worth investors, on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. While investment management is the core offering, our 1,500 investment professionals also provide a full scope of wealth management advice and solutions, such as insurance, retirement, estate and tax planning and charitable giving to help our clients preserve, grow and transfer their wealth to succeeding generations.

The Associate Branch Director is responsible for overall branch profitability while meeting strategic targets through: sales management, human resource management, operations control and supervision of compliance. Provide leadership and support to Investment Advisors and support staff in hiring, training and motivating. Assesses performance, provides appropriate developmental opportunities, coaching and feedback as required. Promotes the firms corporate image by developing and maintaining business relationships throughout RBC Financial Group and within their respective communities.

What will you do?

• Clearly demonstrates effective management and supervision of all compliance issues and responsibilities on a daily basis.
• Provides effective and consistent communication via weekly sales meetings, sales support meetings and team meetings.
• Engages in high performance coaching with each IA.
• Provides ongoing coaching to Branch Administrator to ensure their duties are understood and accomplished with a high degree of success; also provides ongoing opportunities for mentoring and development.
• Clearly demonstrates behaviors which motivate all employees for greatest results including, personal development, recognition and promotion.
• Consistently seeks opportunities to engage employees in improving the working environment within the branch.
• Develops actionable feedback for IAs and support staff, whether it is positive or corrective. Is willing to make tough decisions.
• Solves difficult problems effectively. Deals with the root cause, looks beyond the obvious and doesnt stop at the first or easy answer.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.

What do you need to do to be successful?
Must Have:

• Post-Secondary Education (College or University)
• Retail Brokerage Experience with minimum of 2 years Investment Advisor experience or similar experience
• Demonstrated experience in dealing with ambiguity and managing multiple operations and servicing activities in a fast paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience in dealing with ambiguity and managing multiple operations and servicing activities in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to engage a diverse team that includes branch staff, middle office and internal and external partners
• Experience in managing multiple priorities and in dealing with challenging and sometimes complex situations to drive success.
• Proven experience in leading a team, coaching and developing and motivating others.
• Decisive and Results Driven
• CSC, CPH, BME, Options Supervision, Options licensing preferred.

Nice to Have

• RBC Dominion Securities experience
• WM Operations and Financial Industry background

Whats 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.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• 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
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business

Job Summary

Address: TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

City: CAN-ON-TORONTO

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: Wealth Management

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Commission

Posted Date: 2023-03-16

Application Deadline: 2023-09-18

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.

We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.

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