Strategy Business Analyst

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Data & Digital is a team focused on delivering tech-enabled experiences for clients and operational teams to access and utilize their data. Strategic Solutions team is at the intersection of business needs and execution teams, focused on improving Data & Digital performance by aligning RBCIS strategic priorities with execution across the team. This Business Analyst bridges strategy, team operations, and delivery, ensuring cross-domain alignment and implementation efficiency for strategic solutions across the team.

As the voice behind Data & Digital most important messages, you’ll turn complex strategic and technology topics into trusted stories, manage relationships with enterprise, vendors, support client-facing communications and ensure alignment of execution to organizational goals. This role is critical as the team evolves—you'll be the connective tissue enabling efficient delivery, preventing silos, reducing duplication, and ensuring execution remains focused on measurable outcomes.

What will you do?

• Defining Data & Digital Strategy: Help define where Data & Digital goes. Assist in developing and socializing the Data & Digital multi-year vision, update strategies, and support funding preparation; ensure alignment between with plans across RBCIS and enterprise priorities.

• Engagement & Communication Support: Build powerful relationships. Support engagement plan with partners. Lead enterprise-wide outreach as the voice of Data & Digital. Translate complex strategic and technology topics into compelling narratives for executive audiences, partners, and clients. Build and maintain relationships, prepare executive-level content, branding materials, online content and communications strategy that positions Data & Digital as a trusted partner across the organization.

• Optimise Operating Model & Conduct Research: Shape the stories for the highest level of the bank. Ensure C-level reporting on progress and OKRs/KPIs; coordinate budget planning and yearly planning cycles; maintain consolidated roadmaps with cross-team dependencies, monitor delivery against commitments and flag risks; conduct strategic research on partnerships and market trends. Ensure strategic alignment across all initiatives; anticipate and mitigate cross-team risks and dependencies; build scalable frameworks to support team growth.

• Solutions & Demand Management: Turn insight into influence. Manage Data & Digital engagement with programs across enterprise (e.g. company-wide implementations); coordinate vendor relationships and engagement (e.g. engage with potential vendors); support strategic programs implementation and tactical solution transition.

What do you need to succeed?

Must haves:

• 2-4 years of experience in business analysis, product management, technology delivery, or related roles in data or technology.

• Experience in financial services with understanding of enterprise technology ecosystems.

• Strong cross-functional coordination skills with proven ability to collaborate across domains.

• Executive communication expertise ability to prepare business cases, dashboards, and executive-level content summarizing complex concepts.

• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights and conduct cost-benefit analyses.

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience level.

Nice-to-have:

• Vendor due diligence exposure and experience managing strategic partnerships.

• Project management experience

• Knowledge of technical principles and technology transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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.
• Flexible work/life balance options.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities. 
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business.

Job Skills

Analytical Thinking, Communication, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Detail-Oriented, Independent Thinking, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Proactive Thinking, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management, Technical Knowledge, Vendor Engagement

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-28

Application Deadline:

2026-08-12

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

Compensation for this position (including salary and discretionary/variable payments) will be determined by factors, including but not limited to candidate's experience, skills, registration status, performance, individual goals, market conditions, and business needs.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is:

$55,000.00 - $90,000.00

The pay range provided is for the primary work location referenced in the Additional Job Details section of this job posting. Pay ranges may differ based on location. If the posting lists multiple job locations, a recruiter can confirm availability of the role and the relevant pay rage for the additional locations listed. RBC supports pay transparency and we strive to ensure all pay ranges are competitive, fair, and equitable.

You have the potential to earn RBC's discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided that business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.

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