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Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Capital One
Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-06-01
Job specializations:
  • Finance & Banking
    Risk Manager/Analyst, Financial Compliance
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120800 - 137900 USD Yearly USD 120800.00 137900.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise Payments

Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise Payments

Do you like working in the spotlight? Are you ready to work on the front line of a top 10 Bank? Can you build relationships as well as develop and implement innovative solutions?

As a Principal Risk Specialist in the Retail Bank Risk Office at Capital One, you’ll be responsible for working with business partners to identify, assess and mitigate potential risks to Capital One. Principal Risk Specialists at Capital One are the front line of defense to ensure our Company remains stable and profitable. This role will focus on risks and controls impacting one or more of our Payment Governance teams.

You'll play a key role in ensuring that millions of customers interact with their money in a well-managed fashion by partnering with Operations, Product, Technology and Business partners to manage the risks associated with payments.

Principal Risk Specialists at Capital One are highly motivated risk management professionals with excellent problem solving, critical thinking, organizational and communication skills. They have a high level of exposure across lines of business and have the opportunity to create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the Company.

Responsibilities:

  • Risk Consulting - Provide advice and guidance to line of business leaders on risks impacting one or more areas within the Enterprise Payments Governance Office

  • Client Management - Develop and leverage key relationships with Enterprise Payments and functional stakeholders to enable collaboration across the enterprise

  • Issues Management - Identify and track issues and events to mitigate risk within Enterprise Payments. Coordinate with applicable business areas to define and implement remediation activities

  • Governance - Enhance payments-related control and governance environment by leading process-level change control efforts to ensure impacts are thoroughly assessed, documented, and implemented, while also establishing ongoing routines to support these improvements.

  • Audit Management - Provide support to Enterprise Payments during audits; support in the delivery of key risk mitigation and remediation activities

We want you if you are:

  • A communicator: You can communicate complex, often technical, ideas clearly. Maybe you’re an introvert, or maybe you’re an extrovert, but nobody around you feels out of the loop.

  • A learner: You have an appetite to learn new processes or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help.

  • Team player: You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships.

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 2 years of financial services risk management experience

  • At least 2 years of payments operations experience or risk management experience

  • At least 2 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal business clients

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of Project Management experience leading cross functional projects and programs

  • 3+ years of financial services risk management experience

  • 3+ years of payments operations experience or risk management experience

  • Certification within the payments industry (e.g., AAP, APRP)

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: $120,800 - $137,900 for Principal Risk Specialist

Richmond, VA: $109,900 - $125,400 for Principal Risk Specialist

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…

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