Sr. Business Analyst - Risk Management

The Role

As a Senior Business Analyst at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

This Sr. Business Analyst will perform highly impactful strategic and analytical work supporting the evaluation of Line of Business (LOB) incentive compensation plans across Capital One. The Analyst will develop an understanding of the company’s incentive compensation plans, third party incentive compensation plans, business strategies, and corporate risk programs and apply quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to assess incentive plan designs to help ensure that Capital One is paying its employees in ways that do not encourage imprudent risk taking and encourage alignment with business goals..

The Analyst will analyze incentive plan design and structures, performance measures, payout mechanics, participant and performance data, and other relevant information to identify trends, relationships, and potential areas of risk within plan designs. The Analyst will translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights; produce high quality data modeling and analysis; develop high-quality presentations and recommendations. The Analyst will communicate findings to senior leaders and key stakeholders to support effective challenge, informed decision-making , and the appropriate balance of risk and reward across the enterprise.

• Analysis: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
• Execution: Involve problem frame-works, develop hypotheses, test and analysis, solution development, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan
• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Human Resources, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
• Strategic & analytic orientation: Demonstrate a proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business. Demonstrate strong judgement and conviction when evaluating complex business and risk considerations
• Strong communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Clear results orientation: Display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals and have the ability to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus

• At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related…