Senior Manager, Cyber Resilience (Capital Markets)

What is the opportunity?

• This role will be a team member of the UK, Europe and APAC Cyber Resilience function 
• Provides support to help drive cyber resilience in region(s) enabling compliance to regulatory requirements (MAS TRM, UK FCA Handbook, ECB DORA etc).
• Enhance the organisation's ability to prepare for, withstand, and recover from cyber threats and disruptions.
• Analyse and interpret business and security data to inform business decisions and drive continuous improvement of the organisation’s cyber resilience.
•  Build strong relationships across the organisation to foster collaboration on cyber resilience initiatives.
• Work with internal teams and external partners to implement effective security measures and improve resilience against evolving threats.

RBC’s expectation is that from mid-September 2025, all employees and contractors will work in the office with some flexibility to work up to 1 day per week remotely, depending on working arrangements.

What will you do?

• Develop strong relationships with business units to promote cyber resilience as a shared responsibility. Collaborate with IT, risk, compliance, and external stakeholders on security initiatives.
• Analyse and interpret security data to produce actionable insights and dashboards for business decision-making. Identify trends, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for security improvement through data analysis.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cyber resilience leading internal technical alignment with key stakeholders and external engagement with regulatory resilience and cross industry bodies.
• Support the delivery of the cyber resilience framework, principles, practices, and a roadmap to enable alignment with regulatory cyber resilience requirements defined by regulators in region
• Perform thematic analysis and modeling of revenue into products, services, systems and third parties and develop scorecards, with cyber resilience indexes, and action plans
• Work with Adversary Emulation on red team, purple team, and penetration testing exercises.
• Proactively suggest and help to implement improvements to the organisation's cyber resilience strategy.- Contribute to the development of new processes and controls to strengthen security posture.
• Act as a security advisor across business platforms in region, identifying cyber resilience issues and partnering with business leaders to implement solutions.
• Stay informed of the evolving regulatory landscape and emerging operational resilience challenges of the finance sector in UK, Europe and APAC.  
• Contribute to the consolidation of key data inputs from disparate teams, enabling a cyber resilience index (App Sec, IT Risk, TI, 3rd Party Risk, Ops Risk, Group Risk, BCP, Corporate Security etc)

What do you need to succeed?
 

Must-have:

• Extensive proven cyber security experience (ideally at a consulting or ‘broad and shallow’ not deep SME level)
• Solid experience in relationship management, threat modelling, and/or security architecture
• Experience in the financial services or other regulated industries, working at the management level
• Business and financial acumen plus operational mindset
• Demonstrated ability to build sustainable, transparent relationships / partnerships, with the ability to partner across a matrix organization 
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to think creatively and strategically
•  Able to support cyber resilience strategies in region 
• Long-term vision for building cyber value with the ability to invest in initiatives with multiple time horizon pay offs
• Strong client focus, relationship building and has “Change/Improvement” mind-set

Nice to have:

•  Financial and Business acumen

What is 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, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services.

Agency Notice 
RBC Group does not accept agency resumés.  Please do not forward resumés to our employees, nor any other company location.  RBC Group only pay fees to agencies where they have entered into a prior agreement to do so and in any event do not pay fees related to unsolicited resumés. Please contact the Recruitment function for additional details.

Job Skills

Critical Thinking, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Interpersonal Relationship Management, IT Security Architecture, Performance Management (PM)

Additional Job Details

100 BISHOPSGATE:LONDONLondonUnited Kingdom35Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2025-11-172025-12-01

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At 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.