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Risk Analyst, Third Party Disaster Readiness
@ Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Royal Bank of Canada is hiring a Risk Analyst for its Third Party Disaster Readiness team in Toronto, full time at 37.5 hours per week on a salaried basis. The role assesses, monitors and validates suppliers' disaster recovery capabilities, runs due diligence on new and renewed contracts, and escalates material risks to senior leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Assess, monitor and validate suppliers' disaster recovery capabilities
- Conduct third-party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments
- Escalate material risks and SLA delays to senior leadership
- Support supplier engagements and contract renewal discussions on resilience provisions
- Document requirements and implement KRI/KPI compliance reporting
Requirements summary:
- University or college degree in a relevant field
- 2 to 4 years of risk assessment and reporting experience
- Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity management
- Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and third-party supplier lifecycle
- Ability to interpret policies, standards and third-party regulatory requirements
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-05
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Business operations |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Hours per week | 37.5 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Perks mentioned | Flexible hours, Performance bonus, Stock or equity |
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Royal Bank of Canada
Stock listing: TSX:RY · NYSE:RY · Source checked: 2026-11-02
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Full company description
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact. http://rbc.com/legalstuff. La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social. https://www.rbc.com/conditions-dutilisation/
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- 200 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5, CA
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- Other recorded names
- Royal Bank of Canada
- RBC
- Specialties
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- wealth management
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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market…
| Field | Value |
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| Industry | Banking |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | financebankinginvestinginsurancefinancial planningwealth managementand capital markets |
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Job Description
What is the Opportunity?
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 via clearly documented risk assessment processes, insightful reporting, and alignment to industry and internal standards, and to
regulatory/legislative requirements.
What will you do?
- Support the end-to-end process for assessing, monitoring, and validating suppliers’ disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
- Ensure alignment with corporate resilience standards, internal risk frameworks, and applicable regulatory expectations.
- Provide oversight and support to business units for the identification, mitigation, and remediation of third-party disaster recovery risks.
- Conduct third-party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments for new, existing, and renewed contracts.
- Identify and escalate material risks, unresponsiveness, delayed service level agreements (SLAs), and critical deficiencies to senior leadership for timely action.
- Support the evaluation of concentrated supplier risks and recommend strategies to mitigate single points of failure.
- Documents end-to-end requirements for meeting new obligations in Third Party Disaster Recovery risk assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
- Looks for opportunities to automate processes, communication and/or reporting.
- Partner with Line of Business teams, IT Risk, BCM, Supplier Management Office, and SaaS Architecture to ensure comprehensive and accurate DR assessments.
- Act as a subject matter expert to support supplier engagements, contract negotiations and renewal discussions related to resilience and disaster recovery provisions.
- Leverages the existing supplier management process to determine risk assessment needs and priorities, makes assessments, and reports results.
- Identify any issues or risk gaps and track issues through to completion.
- Documents opportunities for improvement uncovered through reviews or researching as required, to increase efficiency and better meet the goals of the business.
- Assists in implementing KRIs/ KPIs/ EXI metrics for our overall compliance reporting obligations.
- Assists in understanding how new regulations, policies or standards impact the disaster readiness process and reporting in order to make meaningful recommendations on suggested changes.
- Develop or improve tools and mechanisms for building reporting processes for the team and the business.
What do you need to succeed?
Must have:
- University/ College Degree in a relevant or applicable field.
- 2- 4 years 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 Lifecyle.
- Ability to understand policies, standards and related regulatory requirements, particularly with respect to third-party relationships.
- Ability to work independently or within team structures.
- Ability to learn quickly in order to understand stakeholder positions throughout the enterprise.
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.
What’s 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.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
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Job Skills
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Cyber Security Management, Firewall Management, Information Security Management, IT Network Security, Operational Delivery, Problem Management, Process Management, Threat ManagementAdditional Job Details
Address:
RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOCity:
TorontoCountry:
CanadaWork hours/week:
37.5Employment Type:
Full timePlatform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:
RegularPay Type:
SalariedPosted Date:
2026-11-05Application Deadline:
2026-11-23Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
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