Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Professional Development
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Yanchen (Grace) Liu

Yanchen (Grace) Liu

Toronto,ON

Overview

3
3
Languages
8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Banking Advisor

RBC Royal Bank
04.2025 - Current

• Meet with 20-25 clients weekly to provide tailored financial advice and product recommendations to help clients achieve their banking and investment goals.

• Proactively identify opportunities and collaborate with partners (IRPs, BAMs, Mortgage Specialists), initiating 4-6 referrals per week to uncover additional value and advance clients' financial goals across all life stages

• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive outreach and exceptional service. Coordinate follow-up appointments to monitor client needs and help them stay on track with their long-term financial objectives

• Provide tailored financial advice and conduct detailed financial reviews with client on a regular basis and identify cross-selling opportunities for everyday banking, credit, and investments

Consistently meeting sales and service targets in a fast-paced, client focused environment. Ensure every client interaction was a meaningful appointment by identifying needs and presenting appropriate financial solutions

State Street Corporation

Business Analyst, Senior Associate
06.2023 - 09.2023

• Perform both middle-office and back-office roles, to support investment managers from Pacific Investment Management Company during APAC hours, to ensure proper responses and timely follow-up on clients' trading& investment related queries till resolved

• Monitor trade status from instruction authorization til settlement, work with internal teams to monitor clients' account status with custodian banks in a timely manner to ensure smooth trade flow

• Handle 5-10 cases daily (e.g., asset servicing, trade operations, client reporting, etc.), identify operational issues, co-operate with onshore and offshore teams accordingly for further investigation, and provide resolutions to clients and various impacted teams

• Mainly focus on derivatives (e.g. derivatives trading, fees, termination, broker statement discrepancies, etc.), book cross-currency swap tickets from PIMCO, and utilize Excel template to perform cross-currency swap notional& coupon cash flow calculations (e.g. NZD/ AUD/ JPY v.s. USD)

Participate in enhancing procedures to ensure the most up-to-date guidance are delivered to all team members, so that correct figures and trade instructions are sent to bank and brokers accurately

Support Leader

CIBC
06.2021 - 08.2021

• Closely work with team leaders to train new recruits on credit card and investment products and training

• Support colleagues on floor or MS Teams, arrange coaching sessions to share best practices and keep team members updated to new procedures and campaigns

• Coordinate training sessions for new staff, improving onboarding efficiency and team performance; present, and thoroughly go through the banking procedures with classes of around 12-20 new recruits; leave a 30-minute role play session, or end-of-day session for questions and pick them up on the following day

• Handle client escalations transferred from frontline agents, co-operate with other internal departments to facilitate resolution of customer inquiries, enhancing service quality and client satisfaction

Bilingual Financial Services Representative

CIBC
07.2018 - 05.2021

• Patiently listen, and communicate with both English and Mandarin speaking clients, to show genuine care, fulfill their banking needs, and help achieve their financial goals to build strong client relationship

• Deeply understand and continuously learn about banking/investment products, campaigns, and systems to better assist clients with their inquiries and provide personalized solutions

• Utilize available tools and applications to look into client's profiles to discover potential opportunities to go beyond their primary needs to further create value

• Focus on excellent client experience while striving to meet personal sales goals and completing priorities for the business as well as clients

Always self-challenge to achieve and improve overall targets (no compliance error; exceeding sales target by 30-50%)

Education

BBA - Finance And Management

University of Toronto
Toronto
06-2018

Skills

Strong attention to detail developed from extracting key information from clients’ profiles and providing comprehensive investment solutions at RBC

Exceptional analytical and multitasking skills proven through Business Analyst role at State Street Corporation

Superb communication skills, and problem solving skills equipped from working as an FSR at CIBC

Fluent in both spoken and written in English, Mandarin Intermediate proficiency in Japanese

Superior capacity of learning and utilizing new banking applications and systems

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Adobe Photoshop

Energetic individual who is passionate about achieving a challenging position that allows meaningful contributions to a business’ success

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Mandarin
Native or Bilingual
Japanese
Limited Working

Professional Development

Chartered Financial Analyst , Level II Passed in May 2024

Investment Funds in Canada Course (IFC) , Passed in June 2025

Timeline

Banking Advisor

RBC Royal Bank
04.2025 - Current

State Street Corporation

Business Analyst, Senior Associate
06.2023 - 09.2023

Support Leader

CIBC
06.2021 - 08.2021

Bilingual Financial Services Representative

CIBC
07.2018 - 05.2021

BBA - Finance And Management

University of Toronto
Yanchen (Grace) Liu