Manager, Sanctions Evasion and Trade

What is the Opportunity?

• Conduct investigations involving higher risk clients and transactions triggering due to sanctions and export control evasion risks. Investigations review the client, account activity, open-source information, vendor intelligence, and sanctions regulations, where applicable (i.e. Canadian, US, EU and UK), to assess and mitigate the sanctions as well as the sanctions and export control evasion risks associated with the client or the transactions.

• Contribute to projects related to enhancing RBC’s control environment to incorporate sanctions and export control evasion risks globally.

• Assist with the development of RBC’s new sanctions evasion and trade compliance program, including among others developing policies and procedures, training content, risk and gap assessments, reporting/metrics, etc.

• Assist providing advisory guidance and support to internal partners and RBC units globally on risks and requirements related to sanctions and export control evasion, including Financial Crimes & AML, trade finance, and commercial banking.

• This position directly mitigates RBC’s exposure to regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks and requires a compliance professional with a strong background in sanctions/AML compliance who also operates in a fast faced and high-pressure environment and can adapt quickly and confidently to changing regulatory requirements and expectations. Provides support to the Director, Sanctions Evasion & Trade or Senior Manager, Sanctions Evasion & Trade as required to ensure RBC continues to comply with all applicable economic sanction’s laws and regulations

What will you do?

• Mitigate RBC’s regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks by conducting investigations, assisting with projects, and generally assist with the development and enhancement of RBC’s controls related to sanctions and export control evasion to ensure RBC continues to comply with all applicable economic sanctions laws and regulations.

• Maintain a strong and in-depth knowledge of Canadian, US, UK and EU sanctions regulations, as well as Canadian and US export control regulations, and stay abreast of changes to sanctions and export controls regulations.

• Day-to-day management of sanctions and export control evasion investigations, including proactively identifying higher risk clients and transactions

• Assess potential sanctions as well as sanctions and export control evasion risks, ensuring that clients are not engaging in prohibited activities through RBC accounts and transactions are properly assessed given higher sanctions and export control evasion risks.

• Maintain accurate documentation of investigations and assessments of sanctions regulations per established procedures.

• Act as a point of escalation to internal partners and RBC units globally that require guidance/direction on sanctions and export control evasion.

• Identify clients and transactions that pose unacceptable sanctions risks to RBC and engage the Senior Management in Global Economic Sanctions to share these risks to RBC, including identifying and reporting transactions/activities to the FIU for potential STR reporting and drafting disclosures to law enforcement where potential violations of sanctions laws have been identified.

• Assist with projects enhancing RBC’s sanctions-related controls to incorporate sanctions and export control evasion risks globally

• Demonstrate leadership, ownership, and a growth mentality to ensure positive and professional working relationships within Global Economic Sanctions, Financial Crimes & AML, and RBC’s business units.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum 2-4 years of direct Financial Industry Compliance or legal experience, including sanctions experience

• Prior sanctions compliance experience at a Canadian Financial Institution is an asset

• Experience excelling in a fast paced, high-pressure environment

• Experience demonstrating strong written and oral communication skills

• Experience collaborating effectively with internal and external partners

• Strong knowledge of sanctions regulations/guidance and compliance challenges (e.g. deemed ownership)

• Knowledge of the changing geopolitical landscape and its impact to Financial Institutions

• Ability to review, understand, and apply complex regulations (critical thinking skills)

• Developed organizational and time management skills with an ability to be agile to shifting priorities

• Concise and accurate documentation of incidents and sanctions risk mitigation (communication skills)

• Strong knowledge of US, EU, UK and Canadian sanctions regulations, including export controls regulations

• Knowledge of the global RBC organizational and control structure (organizational awareness

• Multilingual or an ability to leverage technology to translate language

• ACAMS or ACSS Certification preferred

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 include competitive compensation and flexible benefits.

• 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 build close relationships with clients.

You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

• Drives RBC’s high-performance culture

• Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

• Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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Job Skills

Analytical Thinking, Commercial Laws, Communication, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Fraud Management, Fraud Risk Management, Legal Practices, Long Term Planning, Quality Orientation

Additional Job Details

WATERPARK PLACE, 20 BAY ST:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeGROUP RISK MANAGEMENTRegularSalaried2026-03-162026-05-02

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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