Manager, Trade Support
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
Responsible for the overall day-to-day support management of RBC Direct Investing’s (RBC DI) and RBC InvestEase’s (RBC IE) trading platforms. Primary point of contact and central escalation point for all crisis-related trading issues; leading proactive investigations, diagnose root causes through risk analysis, and coordinate remediation across multiple teams (EOM, EAT, CCO, Operations) in collaboration with Wealth Management IT. Your oversight of all trading systems (TradeLink, Berton, Fidessa, OTIS, RTMC, RTFT, BPSA, etc.) will include strategic budgeting of maintenance, projects, and enhancements, along with defining business requirements, signing off on PMF documentation, and driving implementation from proof of concept through testing phases. Primary backup for the Manager of Online and Mobile Support and secondary backup for Manager of Business Operations.
What will you do?
- Central escalation point for all trading and trading related issues. This includes proactively investigating the issue – research, diagnosing, troubleshooting, risk analysis, and replication, assessing the severity of the issue, and engaging Wealth Management IT through a 911 call to understand root cause, confirmation of client impact, and next steps for remediation which includes a review of impacted trades and War Game Reports.
- Crisis Management – Strong communication, leadership, risk management, and influence to provide clear instructions to large groups (EOM, EAT, CCO and Operations) to review and process any trade corrections.
- Manage all trading systems maintenance and enhancement projects; own the OLT Outage Contingency Plan Procedure within Delegation of Authorities; mitigate client and business risk through ongoing management and improvement of TCC (Trade Compliance Component - the system controlling electronic order flow)
- Execute regression and production testing to ensure trading systems are not impacted by infrastructure changes, upgrades, and disaster recovery (DR) scenarios; manage Wealth Management IT BAU maintenance releases with responsibility for business requirements analysis, UAT coordination, defect management, and Production Verification Testing
- Analyze PTRs/SCRs for prioritization; execute QA/UAT data setup and analysis to improve digital services, client experience, and Contact Centre operations
- Investigate, decipher, and analyze technical and trading information related to trading and compliance issues for investigations, litigation support, and regulatory requirements
- Implement, communicate, and provide training on new and updated trading functionalities and services to IT teams, Operations, Call Centres, and ISR teams
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- Strong customer focus
- Technical expertise and business Savvy
- Solution oriented while mitigating risk in a timely manner
- Analytical
- Strong communications (Written and Verbal) and influence impacting large groups across many teams (WMIT, EAT, EOM, CWMO, Contact Centre)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)
Nice to have:
- Good knowledge of DI Online and Mobile Investing channels, IE Online Investing channels, Markit hosted pages, BPSA, BTS, Client Source, ClientLink, ServiceLink, ServiceLink+, Web Galaxy, TradeLink, Berton, OTIS, and back office operations and trading.
- Canadian Securities Course (CSC), the Conduct & Practices exam (CPH), Derivatives Fundamental Course (DFC), and Options Licensing Course (OLC).
- Understanding of project life cycle.
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
Adaptability, Business Process Design, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Operational Delivery, Time ManagementAdditional Job Details
Address:
RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOCity:
TorontoCountry:
CanadaWork hours/week:
37.5Employment Type:
Full timePlatform:
WEALTH MANAGEMENTJob Type:
RegularPay Type:
SalariedPosted Date:
2026-10-16Application Deadline:
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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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More about this job
Responsibilities
The Manager, Trade Support at RBC Direct Investing will be the main contact for trading problems, investigate and fix root causes, and coordinate teams during incidents. The role also manages system maintenance, testing and projects across trading platforms.
Requirements
Candidates need strong communication and influence across large groups, technical and business knowledge of trading systems, and analytical problem-solving skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word is required; securities courses are a nice-to-have.
Skills
- TradeLink
- Berton
- Fidessa
- OTIS
- RTMC
- RTFT
- BPSA
- BTS
- ClientLink
- ServiceLink
- Web Galaxy
- Markit
- Regression testing
- Production verification testing
- User acceptance testing (UAT)
- Defect management
- Business requirements analysis
- Root cause analysis
- Risk analysis
- Incident management
- Crisis management
- Project lifecycle management
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
Benefits
- Total Rewards Program
- Commissions and stock
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Leadership coaching
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Technology
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- trading platform support
- trade support manager
- TradeLink
- Berton
- Fidessa
- OTIS
- RTMC
- RTFT
- BPSA
- trade compliance
- UAT
- regression testing
- defect management
- crisis management
- incident escalation
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Canadian Securities Course
- wealth management IT
- online brokerage
Seniority
Manager
Perks
- Flexible hours
- Performance bonus
- Stock or equity
Licences and certifications
- Canadian Securities Course (CSC)
- Derivatives Fundamental Course (DFC)
Tools
- TradeLink
- Berton
- Fidessa
- OTIS
- RTMC
- RTFT
- BPSA
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
Languages
- English