Grace Baylis

Professional Experience

Intro

I recently left RBC and am currently seeking my next role! I have two primary areas of focus.

Firstly, I am passionate about sport. I am particularly interested in the player relations or investment side of professional and college sports. I am especially excited about women’s sports and believe we are still at the beginning of significant progress in this area.

Secondly, I am drawn to the start-up space. Either within a early stage start-up company focused on FinTech or Green technology, or within the VC space, helping support new and exciting businesses. I am eager to be part of a fast-moving company where scrappiness and innovation are encouraged.

Please see resume as of May 2024.

Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Associate: March 2022 – Feb 2024

As the third employee on the US Strategy team, I helped grow the team to over eight members under the leadership of Debraj Ghosh.

I worked on a variety of projects, including US Board Strategy (twice), Risk Strategy, Commercial Banking Strategy and Loan Reallocation, and Private Banking. See the detailed project library below.

I also led the DEI and Culture team, defining a bottom-up culture through peer interviews, establishing the ‘DEI Hub’ and diversity metrics dashboard, and publishing the LGBTQ+ series.

Project Library

US Annual Board Strategy

  • Partnered with executive stakeholders to create and drive the strategy and annual planning of the 2022 & 2023 Enterprise Strategy
  • Created Enterprise wide scorecard for OKRs and client metrics

Commercial Banking Strategy

  • Created loan reallocation model for the Commerical buiness line. Objective to maxmize revenue and ROE with minimal loan book growth
  • Presented findings to executive leadership, reallocation suggestions were accepted and implemented
  • Worked with sub-business leads to pivot straregy and OKRs as necessary

Risk Strategy

  • Led a data-driven analysis of inefficiencies for Risk team
  • Prioritised suggestions based on forecasted impact; execution resulting in reduced response times, the elimination of multiple steps within the review process, and the mitigation of select risks to regulators

Private Banking Strategy

  • Conducted a detailed peer review and market research on the private banking space
  • Created a customer segmentation analysis; hosted a senior leadership workshop to share insights and ideas and align on three target client profiles

M&A Considerations

  • Created detailed M&A synergies model for target acqusitions. Model considered total revenue and cost synergies over 10 years
  • Conducted expert insight interviews surrounding potential target

US Growth Opportunities Analysis

  • Evaluated enterprise wide growth opportunties to drive substantial revenue impact
  • Modelled revenue impact and shared prioritized list of potential oporutnities
  • Segmented opportunities based on ability to execute, right to win, and forecasted revenue

BNP Paribas

Senior Analyst: July 2020 – March 2022

Joined BNP Paribas in 2020, worked as part of the small strategy consulting team with Bank of the West

Worked across the Bank on a variety of topics and business lines, including a Bank-wide IT Strategy, Commercial Banking Underwriting resource review, and 5-year Strategy refresh