Director, Integrity and Security Risk

Job Description

The Director, Integrity & Security is a strategic leader responsible for safeguarding RBC against undue influence and foreign interference, ensuring the organization’s resilience and trustworthiness in an evolving risk landscape. This role champions a proactive, principle-based approach to integrity and security, fostering a culture of accountability while aligning with regulatory intent. The successful candidate will be a highly credible risk leader with strong regulatory and security acumen and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization.

They excel at building credibility, navigating complexity, and driving change through persuasion. This role is pivotal in positioning RBC as a leader in integrity and security, ensuring we protect our organizational values, our clients, and our stakeholders.

The Director, Integrity & Security is a strategic leader responsible for safeguarding RBC against undue influence and foreign interference, ensuring the organization’s resilience and trustworthiness in an evolving risk landscape. This role champions a proactive, principle-based approach to integrity and security, fostering a culture of accountability while aligning with regulatory intent. The successful candidate will be a highly credible risk leader with strong regulatory and security acumen and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization.

They excel at building credibility, navigating complexity, and driving change through persuasion. This role is pivotal in positioning RBC as a leader in integrity and security, ensuring we protect our organizational values, our clients, and our stakeholders.

• Drive enterprise-wide alignment on safeguarding RBC’s interests, emphasizing clarity, consistency, and adaptability in addressing emerging threats.
• Partner with risk owners to strengthen control design, execution, and sustainability, ensuring practices evolve with organizational and threat landscapes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, translating complex, transverse risks into actionable insights and fostering risk-informed strategies.
• Drive cultural accountability: influence stakeholders to prioritize resilience against interference, emphasizing ethical leadership and collective ownership.
• Deliver board-level insights and provide concise, forward-looking reporting on risk posture, trends, and emerging threats, supported by KRIs and scenario analysis.
• Enable governance effectiveness: ensure forums receive timely, actionable intelligence for decision-making, with clear escalation protocols for critical risks.
• Assess and elevate maturity: benchmark RBC’s capabilities against leading practices, identifying gaps and prioritizing enhancements through influence and partnership.
• Monitor horizon risks: track geopolitical, technological, and regulatory shifts to proactively adjust RBC’s defensive posture.

Must-have

• 7+ years of experience in security, insider risk, cyber or a combination
• Deep understanding of the Canadian regulatory environment as it relates to integrity, security and resilience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience with delivering to diverse executive and regulatory audiences
• Proven ability to influence enterprise policy and risk practices

Nice-to-have

• Experience in Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Internal Audit, or Compliance
• Graduate degree or equivalent in public policy, risk management, insider or cyber risk.
• Strategic mindset, with excellent knowledge and understanding of RBC businesses and organization.

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
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
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