Senior Manager, Payments Security (Global Security)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior Manager on the Payments Security team, you will take on a critical role in safeguarding RBC’s payments infrastructure and ensuring its compliance with regulatory and security standards. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the execution of security assessments, governance processes, and attestation activities for payments applications, while driving enterprise alignment and standardization across these efforts. You will lead initiatives to evaluate and enhance the security posture of payments systems, ensuring resilience against emerging threats and compliance with regulatory requirements.
What will you do?
- Lead the strategic planning and oversight of payments-related cyber security regulatory assessments to ensure compliance with enterprise control procedures and evolving security requirements.
- Establish and refine security assessment processes, procedures, and documentation to support audits, regulatory reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive initiatives to standardize, centralize, and integrate AI-driven automation into security assessments to enhance consistency, efficiency, and scalability while reducing manual resource demands.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration by coordinating with internal teams across Global Security, Payments, Tech Infrastructure, Group Risk Management, and AI innovation units to align enterprise-wide control standards, frameworks, and emerging technologies.
- Oversee the preparation, analysis, and delivery of comprehensive assessment reports to senior stakeholders, focusing on compliance status, security risks, AI-driven insights, and actionable improvement recommendations.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Leadership experience in managing teams, program governance and driving security programs at scale
- Proven experience in cybersecurity risk management, industry best practices and control frameworks
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to convey technical and risk information, make actionable recommendations to senior leadership and drive alignment and decision making across diverse groups
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, capable of navigating complex risk environments and prioritizing initiatives
- Relevant certifications in security or risk management: e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI Qualified Assessor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CompTIA Security+, GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
Nice-to-have
- Direct experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Knowledge of cyber security, compliance, security control frameworks and risk management principles
- Ability to deploy agile or design thinking methodologies, tools and processes
- Payments and financial services experience, particularly with international standards and regulations
- Experience with automation and process improvement
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.
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A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation
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Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
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Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
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Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
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Opportunities to do challenging work
-
Flexible work/life balance options
#LI-POST
#TECHPJ
Job Skills
Adaptability, Budgeting, Business Oriented, Decision Making, Long Term Planning, Resource Management, Results-Oriented, Team Management, Time Management, Waterfall Model
Additional Job Details
Address:
330 FRONT ST W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-08-15
Application Deadline:
2025-09-02
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
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.
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.
Senior Manager, Payments Security (Global Security)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior Manager on the Payments Security team, you will take on a critical role in safeguarding RBC’s payments infrastructure and ensuring its compliance with regulatory and security standards. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the execution of security assessments, governance processes, and attestation activities for payments applications, while driving enterprise alignment and standardization across these efforts. You will lead initiatives to evaluate and enhance the security posture of payments systems, ensuring resilience against emerging threats and compliance with regulatory requirements.
What will you do?
- Lead the strategic planning and oversight of payments-related cyber security regulatory assessments to ensure compliance with enterprise control procedures and evolving security requirements.
- Establish and refine security assessment processes, procedures, and documentation to support audits, regulatory reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive initiatives to standardize, centralize, and integrate AI-driven automation into security assessments to enhance consistency, efficiency, and scalability while reducing manual resource demands.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration by coordinating with internal teams across Global Security, Payments, Tech Infrastructure, Group Risk Management, and AI innovation units to align enterprise-wide control standards, frameworks, and emerging technologies.
- Oversee the preparation, analysis, and delivery of comprehensive assessment reports to senior stakeholders, focusing on compliance status, security risks, AI-driven insights, and actionable improvement recommendations.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Leadership experience in managing teams, program governance and driving security programs at scale
- Proven experience in cybersecurity risk management, industry best practices and control frameworks
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to convey technical and risk information, make actionable recommendations to senior leadership and drive alignment and decision making across diverse groups
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, capable of navigating complex risk environments and prioritizing initiatives
- Relevant certifications in security or risk management: e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI Qualified Assessor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CompTIA Security+, GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
Nice-to-have
- Direct experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Knowledge of cyber security, compliance, security control frameworks and risk management principles
- Ability to deploy agile or design thinking methodologies, tools and processes
- Payments and financial services experience, particularly with international standards and regulations
- Experience with automation and process improvement
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
-
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
-
Flexible work/life balance options
#LI-POST
#TECHPJ
Job Skills
Adaptability, Budgeting, Business Oriented, Decision Making, Long Term Planning, Resource Management, Results-Oriented, Team Management, Time Management, Waterfall Model
Additional Job Details
Address:
330 FRONT ST W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-08-15
Application Deadline:
2025-09-02
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
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.
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.