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R219252 Posted 06/23/2025

Director, Retail Bank - Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory

McLean, Virginia | Richmond, Virginia | Plano, Texas | Wilmington, Delaware
  • Category Risk Management
  • Experience Director
  • Primary Address McLean, Virginia

Overview

Director, Retail Bank - Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory

Capital One is a leading banking and technology company seeking to reimagine banking. One of our key risk management priorities is to continue to transform our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions program to enable rigorous, nimble, and sustainable AML and Sanctions risk management, delivered through partnership between the first second and third lines of defense, tailored to Capital One’s products, services, risks, and capabilities.

The Director, AML Advisor for Capital One’s Retail Bank performs a key risk management role to help ensure corporate initiatives and lines of business products, services, and processes comply with applicable laws and regulations. This position will report to the Senior Director, Retail Bank & Financial Services Advisory Lead.  

We are seeking a candidate with AML subject matter expertise, excellent leadership, decision-making, and communication skills, a team-first mentality, proven operational effectiveness, and vision to help lead Capital One’s AML program and department. The successful candidate will serve as the primary point of contact for Retail Bank stakeholders, with the goal of providing holistic end-to-end risk management, producing optimal risk management outcomes, and elevating our AML program to a position of preeminence in the field. To accomplish these objectives it will be critical that this person possess significant experience in retail banking products and services, and driving outcomes with business, technology, and operational partners.  

The successful candidate will be a strong leader who will represent the AML program with business and risk management leaders.  Excellent written and verbal communication, influencing skills, and the ability to adapt and be effective in the progressive, dynamic Capital One culture are essential to success in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Provide risk management consultation to Retail Bank stakeholders  on conducting risk assessments, identifying and mitigating risk, developing mitigation plans, business initiatives, and other risk management and control activities 

  • Provide line of business stakeholders with effective, credible and grounded challenge regarding money laundering and AML regulatory risk and control management, ensuring management is making informed and appropriate risk decisions, and allocating appropriate attention and resources to risk management 

  • Influence senior management to drive realization and mitigation of new and emerging risks

  • Escalate emerging and identified risks to AML senior management and provide leadership in strategic line of business initiatives.

  • Provide leadership across broader AML department for program enhancement and associate development

Competencies

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned financial services professional with strategic leadership skills, a forward lean, and a proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly-regulated environment.  Candidates should have a passion for providing financial products and services that improve our customers’ lives while also complying with all applicable regulatory requirements and expectations.

Business Judgment

  • Strong business judgment, analytical acumen, and the ability to evaluate complex, multi-dimensional situations and risk characteristics and to formulate appropriate compliance recommendations and advice

  • Proven capability to influence and build consensus among peers and senior leadership leveraging sound logic and analysis

Communication

  • Highly developed interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills 

  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, as well as with external parties 

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience 

  • At least 7 years in legal, compliance, regulatory or risk management experience in consumer financial services  

  • At least 5 years of experience with financial services industry

  • At least 5 years of people management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • At least 5 years of experience structuring information for senior audiences

  • Experience as a financial regulator preferred but not required

  • Operational familiarity with retail banking and lending products

  • At least 7 years of experience as a Risk Manager or Assurance within the financial services or tech industry 

  • Proficiency with structuring slides and presentations in order to convey risk information

  • Advanced degree (JD, MBA, MA) is a plus but not required


At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $200,100 - $228,400 for Director, Compliance


Plano, TX: $181,800 - $207,500 for Director, Compliance


Richmond, VA: $181,800 - $207,500 for Director, Compliance


Wilmington, DE: $181,800 - $207,500 for Director, Compliance








Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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