2024 Fall - GRM, Climate Risk Intern

Description du poste:

Job Summary

This is a climate risk analytics intern position in Global Risk Analytics.

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Global Risk Analytics (GRA) is the center of expertise for models used in risk management. This includes risk analytics for market risk, counterparty credit risk and emerging risk. GRA's analytics innovation team focuses on emerging risks, including machine learning and climate analytics.

Due to increasing importance of assessing the impacts of climate change to financial institutions, GRA is building expertise in climate risk analytics to support RBC's various climate risk stress testing and scenario analysis mandates (e.g., B-15 in Canada, ICAAP in UK, CCAR in US). GRA has the model development ownership for several climate risk scenario analysis models, covering both transition risk (posed to clients in transition to low-carbon economy) and physical risk (posed by acute weather events) for different asset classes (e.g., corporate bond, municipal bonds, real estate, and wholesale loans).

Climate analytics is an emerging field. Institutions around the world (e.g., regulators, banks, vendors, etc.) are grappling with the challenges in how to enhance the data, scenario design, and methodology. At this stage, GRA is currently developing climate risk modules, and potentially utilizing open-source data (if deemed appropriate) for research purposes.

GRA is seeking an individual who is interested in applying data analytics (including machine learning) and programming skills to empower our climate risk analytics capability. The intern student will be involved in researching open-source data platforms for climate risk and developing Python-based tools for climate risk related analytics applications. The candidate will learn data analytics and machine learning with applications in climate risk.

What will you do?

* Assist to research open-source data and analytics platforms, such as Climada.
* Assist to design and implement Python-based tools for climate risk related applications.
* Make presentation to senior people in risk.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

* Strong programming experience in Python.
* Knowledge about machine learning, data analytics, and data visualization
* Ability to communicate technical matters in written and oral forms.
* Team players to collaborate and innovate.

Nice-to-have

* Interest in learning about emerging data and techniques to assess climate risk impact.
* Understand of the big picture regarding how risk function works in banks.
* Knowledge of financial products in trading book and banking book.

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.

* 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 and make a difference
* Opportunities to building close relationships

Please note: This posting is for a 4-months Fall 2024 Student placement with a start date of September 2024, and end date of December 2024. In order to be eligible for this 4-months Student position, you must either:

* Be returning back to school after the work term end-date of December 2024 ; or
* If you are not returning back to school (i.e. are graduating in December 2024), you must require the full 4-months work term as a mandatory component to in order to graduate successfully.

Please ensure that you meet these eligibility requirements before applying - candidates who apply but are found to be ineligible are not able to be considered.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we accept applications on a rolling basis, but please note that the formal application deadline is June 3, 2024. Should you be selected to progress, someone from our team will reach out directly to provide instructions on next steps. Otherwise, feel free to check for progress updates by logging in to your RBC profile. If the status has not changed, it denotes the fact that your application is still under review.

RBC is committed to supporting flexible work arrangements when and where available. The successful candidate for this role will be required to be located within Ontario for the duration of the work term. Details regarding the specific virtual, hybrid, and in-office arrangements for this Integrated Learning/ Co-op position are to be discussed with the Hiring Manager.

ET24

Job Skills

Derivatives, Financial Instruments, Risk Analytics, Risk Measurement

Additional Job Details

Address:

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Student/Coop (Fixed Term)

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-05-03

Application Deadline:

2024-06-03

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