What is the Opportunity

The Senior Manager, Finance – Developer Productivity will lead the Finance pillar within a high-impact technology portfolio that spans development productivity across RBC. Your focus: Manage end-to-end financial operations including budgeting, forecasting, developer productivity impact, and executive reporting across the enterprise. You'll be the single point of accountability for financial integrity and insight across a portfolio supporting all RBC lines of business—leveraging modern data and AI tools to drive efficiency and insight.

What will you do?

1. Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead annual budget planning; align with enterprise cost optimization targets.
• Build and maintain rolling 18–24 month forecasts, integrating both operational and value realization.
• Monitor and communicate financial risk exposures, variance drivers, and corrective actions.
• Use AI-assisted tools (e.g., Claude Code, Power Query, Python-based analytics) to automate forecast modeling, scenario analysis, and anomaly detection.

2. Workforce Financial Oversight

• Maintain and refine capacity models to support strategic workforce planning.
• Leverage data analytics platforms to model workforce costs across FTE, contractor, and cloud spend categories in real time.

3. Financial Reporting & Insights

• Produce monthly and quarterly financial packages for senior leadership.
• Generate executive-ready dashboards and commentary (variance, run-rate, YOY/MTD analysis).
• Translate financial data into operational recommendations with business impact.
• Design and maintain self-service analytics using AI-driven tools; use advanced data visualization and predictive analytics to surface hidden cost drivers and optimization opportunities.

4. Governance & Controls

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory reporting standards, and cost allocation rules.
• Collaborate with Vendor Management on accruals, invoice validation, and contract alignment.
• Identify high-effort manual processes and automate them using AI and scripting tools; implement data validation rules and anomaly detection to improve accuracy and cycle time.

5. Partnership & Influence

• Act as strategic advisor to technology and product leaders on financial matters.
• Drive transparency and accountability by embedding financial rigor into planning cycles.
• Support the business case development and ROI evaluation for large-scale tech investments.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to translate financial models into actionable insights; partner on cost implications of AI and data infrastructure investments.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 3+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, or Business Management in a large enterprise.
• Proven track record owning budgets >$50M across technology or operations portfolios.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools expected.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted financial analytics tools (e.g., LLM Models, Python, R, or equivalent) to build custom financial models, automate reporting, and conduct advanced analysis.
• Strong understanding of workforce costing, including contractors and cloud-based spend.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with HR, vendor management, and engineering teams.
• Excellent executive communication skills—both written and verbal.

Nice-to-have:

• 3+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, or Business Management in a large enterprise.
• Proven track record owning budgets >$50M across technology or operations portfolios.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools expected.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted financial analytics tools (e.g., LLM Models, Python, R, or equivalent) to build custom financial models, automate reporting, and conduct advanced analysis.
• Strong understanding of workforce costing, including contractors and cloud-based spend.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with HR, vendor management, and engineering teams.
• Excellent executive communication skills—both written and verbal.

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, commissions, and stock where applicable
• 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
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Job Skills

Accounting, Business Analytics, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Decision Making, Financial Forecasting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Interpersonal Relationships

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeINTERNAL AUDITContract (Fixed Term)Salaried2026-02-182026-03-27

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.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.