Senior Associate, Finance Risk Management, Corporate Development, Finance Program & Delivery, Special Projects

Senior Associate, Finance Risk Management, Corporate Development, Finance Program & Delivery, 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.

* Facilitate the Finance Regulatory Change Management process to ensure adequate Finance responses to new laws and regulations and oversee the Finance owned regulatory mandates.

* 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 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…