Senior Associate, Technology Controls Testing - Enterprise Services Risk

Senior Associate, Technology Controls Testing - Enterprise Services Risk

The Enterprise Services Risk organization is expanding with a focus on attracting innovative, pioneering, collaborative, and highly skilled professionals. We operate at the forefront of risk management, providing support for novel and developing technologies, as well as critical business strategies. Diverse perspectives and experiences are valued as we work to redefine the financial sector.

As a Senior Associate in Capital One’s Enterprise Services (ES) Core Risk, you will apply your risk management skills to the company’s Technology organization. You will partner across Enterprise Services, Divisional CIO, and Information Security teams to develop and support best-in-class industry risk solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders and associates. As a member of the 1st line controls testing team, you will collaborate with other 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line teams to monitor and test processes and control environments, report results, and evaluate compliance with Cyber Security requirements and regulations for the Technology organization.

Your contributions will drive insight into risk and control performance, and organizational change through risk identification, measurement, analysis and reporting to enable better management of technology risks in an open and collaborative environment.

The Technology and SOX Automation team, within Enterprise Services Core Risk Controls Governance and Testing (CGT), is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Technology Controls Testing specialist, with strong interest in process maturity, cybersecurity, identity and access management (IAM), and cloud technologies. A clear understanding of requirements, controls, and testing methodologies is necessary for this role. The ideal candidate will be able to design/execute test plans, identify process and control gaps, and compose clear and concise findings to document shortcomings.

In addition, the ability to clearly communicate results is imperative in this role. This will be an exciting role in a dynamic and fast-paced environment requiring the ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments appropriately. In this role, the associate will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, develop relationships with partners across technology divisions, and materially contribute to process enhancements to reduce risk.

• Perform independent control testing activities and document results.

• Uses code to perform and/or automate analysis and repeatable tasks. Leverages tools [e.g. Python/SQL] to extract and analyze data. Visualize and create charts to support testing efforts.

• Maintains a broad understanding of relevant operating systems and their respective vulnerabilities in order to quickly identify the severity of potential issues [doesn't just know how the tools and reports work, but also how to recognize risk].

• Demonstrates a broad understanding of major categories of cyber threats, how those threats can occur in our environment, and the measures required to safeguard the enterprise.

• Leverages reporting & tools [doesn't build them] to perform analysis on different types of projects, efforts, or datasets & uses data to inform policies and drive change.

• Possesses an understanding of technology systems at an aggregate level, including networks, applications, cloud computing, and data.

• Quickly and accurately analyzes data, assesses risk, & prioritizes published vulnerabilities and potential risks to differentiate critical, high‑risk, and low‑risk issues, and elevate as appropriate.

• Researches, assembles, and/or evaluates information regarding industry practices or applicable regulatory changes affecting cyber security policies or programs; recommends sound, practical solutions to complex issues.

• Makes recommendations regarding changes to policy, procedures, and control programs to mitigate evolving risks.

• Effectively self‑challenges cyber control programs as part of first line duties and escalates risks where appropriate.

• Demonstrates sound lifecycle program management to include documenting and…