Senior Manager, HR Operations Control Governance

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About the role

  • Senior HR governance manager strengthening RBC's global worker screening and onboarding controls. Leading monitoring, testing, audit remediation, and risk alignment across geographic regions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and establish the control framework for globally standardized worker screening and onboarding processes
  • Define control specifications, KCIs, testing methodologies, and risk/control alignment with RBC's Operational Risk Framework
  • Develop and operationalize control monitoring routines across all geographic regions
  • Establish metrics dashboards, exception reporting, and escalation protocols
  • Lead control self-assessments and testing, including quarterly control reviews and annual control testing
  • Conduct root cause analysis of exceptions and compile evidence for audit readiness
  • Oversee audit finding remediation, including timeline tracking, remediation quality validation, audit-ready documentation, and status reporting
  • Prepare control effectiveness reports, KCI analysis, exception summaries, and remediation updates for the Global Service & Controls Governance Committee
  • Collaborate with geographic leads and regional teams to address control gaps, investigate process deviations, and implement corrective actions
  • Partner with Risk, Compliance, and IT teams to align controls with risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and system capabilities
  • Identify emerging control risks and improvement opportunities through data analysis, stakeholder feedback, and industry benchmarking
  • Recommend enhancements to strengthen control effectiveness and efficiency

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of enterprise ORM principles, KRI development, and risk appetite definition
  • Ability to translate risk requirements into effective, testable controls
  • Ability to design control matrices and risk/control alignment
  • Proven ability to design standardized operating procedures, control policies, and testing protocols
  • Strong capability to document complex processes clearly for audit readiness and stakeholder understanding
  • Experience working with Internal Audit and external regulators
  • Strong understanding of audit methodologies, evidence requirements, and remediation validation
  • Proven track record of managing audit finding remediation to closure
  • Excellent ability to communicate complex control concepts to diverse audiences
  • Strong interpersonal skills to build alignment and trust across geographies
  • Proven experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional and regional teams without direct authority
  • Experience managing and implementing change initiatives to improve operational efficiency
  • Experience in operational risk management, compliance, internal audit, or control governance roles is nice to have
  • Background in HR operations, talent acquisition, or people processes is nice to have

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Commissions
  • Stock where applicable
  • Coaching and managing opportunities to support development
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to do challenging work

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

OnsiteVancouverCanada

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