Senior Manager, SWIFT Security Compliance

Senior Manager, SWIFT Security Compliance

At RBC, we are seeking a Senior Manager, SWIFT Security Compliance to provide strategic oversight, alignment, and quality assurance for SWIFT Customer Security Programme (CSP) assessments. This role ensures strict adherence to SWIFT security controls, regulatory requirements, and organizational standards, contributing significantly to our global security posture.

What will you do?

• Provide strategic oversight, alignment, and quality assurance for SWIFT CSP assessments, ensuring adherence to SWIFT security controls, regulatory requirements, and organizational standards.
• Coordinate evidence collection, review, and analysis for SWIFT CSP assessments, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with compliance expectations.
• Act as the senior subject matter expert on SWIFT CSP standards, offering strategic guidance to align security controls with industry best practices and regulatory frameworks.
• Establish and oversee governance processes to integrate SWIFT CSP controls with enterprise control testing, the enterprise controls repository, and internal assessments.
• Identify compliance gaps and security risks, driving the development and execution of actionable risk mitigation strategies in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Promote process optimization to streamline SWIFT CSP assessments, enhance the control environment, and ensure timely resolution of identified gaps.
• Foster collaboration with internal departments, including cybersecurity, IT, risk management, and audit teams, to ensure cohesive execution of SWIFT CSP initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver presentations and reports to senior stakeholders, providing updates on compliance status, security risks, and strategic recommendations.

Qualifications Required:

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity, compliance, or risk management roles, with a proven track record of leading security assessments and governance initiatives.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks such as NIST cybersecurity framework, ISO 27001, or similar.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders, prioritize tasks, and deliver clear, actionable reports.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and provide strategic, results-driven recommendations for security compliance and risk management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex security challenges and drive innovative solutions.

Nice to Have:

• Direct experience with the SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework or similar security control frameworks.
• Relevant certifications in security or risk management, such as CISSP, CISA, PCI Qualified Assessor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CompTIA Security+, or GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA).
• Experience in managing large-scale security programs within a financial institution or similar regulated environment.

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.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

Key skills/competency

• SWIFT CSP
• Cybersecurity
• Compliance Management
• Risk Management
• NIST Framework
• ISO 27001
• Security Governance
• Security Assessments
• Stakeholder Management
• Financial Regulation