Sr. Associate, Finance Risk Management, Risk Advisory & Special Projects

Overview

Sr. Associate, Finance Risk Management, Risk Advisory & Special Projects

Capital One is seeking a motivated professional for a Senior Associate position within the Finance Risk Management (FRM) team. FRM associates are engaged and insightful risk management partners working across the Finance organization to execute robust and proactive risk management programs, improve effectiveness and efficiency of operation while reducing risk and influencing risk stakeholders, risk offices, compliance, internal audit, and regulators. FRM strives to enable a strong culture of risk management across Finance that is adaptable to a changing environment.

A successful candidate for this role will have strong critical thinking and analytical skills, be a proactive problem solver with the ability to operate in white space, and have strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex topics both orally and written to a wide variety of audiences. The candidate should be a well-organized, self-starter who is comfortable functioning autonomously, taking end-to-end ownership of work streams, ensuring all deliverables are completed timely, and leveraging their subject matter knowledge to synthesize all available information to influence our partners to make grounded, risk-based decisions.

General Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on a unique and diverse set of processes and activities in the Finance organization by leveraging a risk management mindset and robust Finance expertise.

• Work alongside a broad set of Finance stakeholders, process owners and performers in support of special projects to understand the risks, recommend control improvements, and support their ongoing well-managed environment.

• Support various Finance project management teams in scoping, planning and ensure proper execution of risk management activities of large initiatives impacting the Finance division.

• Connect with other risk teams across US businesses to understand best practice and to ensure all relevant policies and procedures are adhered too.

• Partner with Finance change management teams to ensure early inclusion of risk considerations in large project scoping and planning.

• Collaborate with partner teams on issues and events investigation, root cause analysis and suggested remediation actions.

• Engage with risk partners to ensure alignment on enterprise guidance, standards and policies. 

• Synthesize information from disparate sources in a manner that enables FRM to influence business, product and tech leaders to make grounded, risk-based decisions; identify themes to support the risk story.

• Creation of and updating of process and governance documentation such as process-flows, data maps, procedures and presentation materials.

• Assist in evaluating new regulatory changes and their impact on processes in scope, then facilitate the incorporation of those changes where appropriate (control, procedures, etc.)

• Assist with the preparation and execution of audit and regulatory exams as they pertain to responsible areas.

• Collaborate with broader horizontal FRM partner teams to provide risk analysis, insights and reporting metrics.

• Support FRM horizontal partner teams in execution of recurring and ad hoc risk activities--process level risk assessments, payments control testing, etc.

• Provide pre, during and post audit/exam management and risk advisory support for our impacted business partners.

• Support interactions with our 2nd and 3rd lines-of-defense teams and collaborate to address challenges levied on our business partners resulting from 2nd or 3rd line reviews.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or military experience

• At least 2 years of Risk Management experience in Finance, Compliance, Audit, Payments or a combination 

• At least 2 years of experience in a Financial Services Industry

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in leading complex, cross functional projects

• Experience engaging and supporting projects of large scale

• Experience with division change management forums

• Experience with regulatory compliance assessment and mitigation

• Experience with risk reporting and issue management

• Effective communication and presentation skills

• Experience with process mapping tools such as Visio or Lucidchart

• Proficient with Google Suite

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

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: $109,000 - $124,400 for Sr. Analyst, Capital Markets & Risk

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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