What is the opportunity?

Reporting to the Senior Director, Risk, Controls & Regulatory, the Director, Risk, Controls, & Regulatory will lead a team to provide comprehensive risk management, controls, and regulatory governance and oversight in support of the Cyber Technology Office (CTO) and its functionally aligned City National Bank (CNB) teams. With strong leadership and risk management experience and expertise, you will partner closely with stakeholders within the CTO and across the Enterprise to drive effective risk management and governance while ensuring the department meets and successfully delivers on its regulatory, audit, risk, compliance, and governance obligations.

What will you do?

• Lead and set the strategic direction and vision for the risk, controls, and regulatory function within the CTO with a focus on governance.
• Drive results and hold stakeholders accountable to bring tasks to closure, meeting risk, compliance, and regulatory obligations with high quality deliverables.
• Execute effective communication with project managers, program teams, stakeholders, executives, and sponsors across the organization.
• Provide strategic and tactical direction for effective risk management across regulatory programs and governance domains.
• Partner closely with control testing, GRC, first, second, and third-line of defense teams to ensure effective execution of projects.
• Manage conflicting priorities between various stakeholder groups.
• Identify, raise, and address, where feasible, program/domain risks, ongoing process and program improvements, operational gaps, and inefficiencies.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• University/College graduate or equivalent.
• Demonstrated strong leadership abilities, including the capacity to inspire, mentor, and coach team members to achieve their full potential.
• Proven experience in setting and driving strategic direction, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while effectively guiding teams through complex challenges.
• Experience in GRC, Audit, or comparable risk management or governance role.
• Experience with various cyber technology domains such as network security, cloud security, endpoint security, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills.
• Keen attention to detail with an aptitude for problem-solving, challenging the status quo, and thinking outside the box.
• Effective time management and organization skills with the ability to multi-task and flexibly adapt to changing priorities.
• Passionate about IT Risk Management and Governance.

Nice to Have:

• One or more related professional designation such as CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP.
• Experience responding to and/or participating in regulatory requests and exams.
• Experience building and leading governance of a cybersecurity domain.
• Proven track record of driving complex initiatives to completion on time.
• Institutional knowledge and familiarity with RBC and CNB policies and standards.

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, 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
• Flexible work/life balance options

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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

16 YORK ST:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-03-102026-03-27

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

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