Lead, Third Party Cyber Risk & Analysis

Lead, Third Party Cyber Risk & Analysis

At Capital One, you will help consult on initiatives, programs, and projects to raise their game in Information Security. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of risk and security, but also willing to know when to pull in experts and elevate. You collaborate and innovate with other teams within Capital One to push the envelope. The associate will support Card’s Third Party Risk Management function from a Cyber lens.

The associate will partner with Card leaders, Third Party Managers, risk management functions, and various cyber teams to provide sound risk consulting and influence business decisions that reduce or eliminate risk to Capital One. You will challenge and innovate within your team to drive process improvements to elevate program efficiency. Security is essential to what we do here, from protecting our customers to our associates.

Holding our third parties to the same security bar is essential.

• Act as a central Information Security point of contact to identify and mitigate Third Party risk in the Card line of business
• Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders
• Proactively identify information security risk and partner with key stakeholders to reduce or eliminate Third Party risk
• Coordinate and execute proactive consulting to both internal and external teams as it relates to third party information security risk
• Support business related projects and initiatives and influence customers to make solid business decisions
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership within Cyber and other stakeholders on the overall Third Party Management health and risk environment
• Influence customers to leverage security capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the vendor procurement and contract renewal processes
• Escalate and manage cyber security risk introduced by Capital One Third Parties
• Provide ad hoc support on special departmental goals, objectives, and initiatives

• You have a desire to work in a very fast moving, forward leaning, and modern computing environment
• You have a strong desire to continually learn about new technologies
• You possess strong conceptual thinking and communication skills
• You are able to work well under minimal supervision
• You are a demonstrated team-oriented professional with interpersonal skills and the ability to interface effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management, IT leaders, and external third parties
• You maintain calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and ability to maintain confidentiality
• You demonstrate strong ability to analyze information and data
• You demonstrate strong subject matter expertise and sound judgment when analyzing third party risk
• You operate in a collaborative manner to effectively assess risk while maintaining business relationships
• You develop and communicate quality recommendations to key stakeholders
• You communicate technical issues to non-technical people
• You demonstrate collaborative partnership skills for working with various points of contacts
• You demonstrate capacity to think broadly but go deep into subject matter when needed
• You have a deep understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to drive results toward those objectives

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
• At least 6 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology
• At least 2 years of experience providing guidance and oversight of Security concepts
• At least 2 years of experience performing security risk assessments

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 4+ years of experience in PCI DSS, NIST, ISO, Physical Security, or IT Operations Management
• 2+ years of experience at a Financial Institution
• 2+ years of experience in Third Party Risk
• Experience in a regulated environment
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, CTPRP, CTPRA, or CRISC certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other…