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Job Title Associate, Investment Analytics



What is the Opportunity?

RBC Wealth Management is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s top 10 largest wealth managers. RBC Wealth Management directly serves affluent, high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) clients in Canada, the United States and select international markets with a full suite of banking, investment, trust and other wealth management solutions. The business also provides asset management products and services directly and through RBC and third party distributors to institutional and individual clients, through its RBC Global Asset Management business (which includes BlueBay Asset Management).

Are you looking to help move forward the advanced analytics capabilities of an investment group from early stages to beyond? Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining performance, risk and advanced analytics reporting for RBC Wealth Management Investment & Trading group (I&T) in Canada. If you are detail-oriented, eager to learn, ready to apply both investment and technical knowledge skills, this Associate position in our Investment Management Analytics team might be the right opportunity for you. Help us deliver the best portfolio and market insights, in addition to the tools to support the needs of our portfolio managers and strategists.

What will you do?

Learn the business as usual for performance and risk management to support our investment committees.

Help improve processes as we integrate new datasets to automate business as usual where possible.

Support the development of our data pipelines and methods to deliver insights (web, tableau, excel, etc) to our various equity and multi-asset portfolio specialists.

Support I&T\xe2\x80\x99s ability to capitalize on opportunities to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of RBC Wealth Management\xe2\x80\x99s investment strategy by partnering with the Investments & Trading team and various groups across RBC focused on improving our analytics processes and capabilities.

Ensure accuracy and quality through production of summaries and reports while meeting timelines on recurring reporting needs.

Ensure policies and procedures are implemented and documented.

Conduct Ad hoc projects, data extractions or analysis as directed.

Be a part of a start-up like setting where fast-fail is highly valued, level of uncertainty is high and requirements are not all defined in advance (iterative feedback loop).

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Commerce, Finance, Economics, Computer Science or related quantitative discipline (e.g., Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics)

Experience/interest in performance reporting and analysis.

Experience/interest in risk reporting and analysis

Pursuing/interest in Chartered Financial Analyst or other finance/risk training or designation.

Knowledge of SQL and at least one programming language (Python, R, Matlab, C, C#, Java, etc).

Knowledge of financial systems (FactSet, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc) and working with time series data from these vendors.

Nice to Have

Experience using Git, Github, Zenhub. Experience in agile design methodologies and frameworks.

Experience working with Tableau.

Experience using cloud-enabled technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically S3, Athena, EMR, RDS, or other AWS database related products.

Experience with big data analytics technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka); experience compiling, manipulating and analyzing large datasets, with a good understanding of data processing frameworks.

What\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

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: Salaried

Posted Date: 2023-01-18

Application Deadline: 2023-07-17

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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