Capital Markets & Risk Analyst - Finance Risk Management

Capital Markets & Risk Analyst - Finance Risk Management

Capital One is seeking a motivated professional for an 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.

• 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 Accountable Executives and delegates of global and international Finance processes, to identify and understand international risks, recommend control improvements, and support their ongoing well-managed environment
• Support implementation of international risk management framework for Finance, and enterprise international maturation and governance programs
• Support FRM international risk management leadership in assessing contemplated international expansion (“entry”) efforts, including assessing intent, scoping, planning and providing a risk perspective to Finance leaders whose teams and processes may be impacted
• Connect with other risk teams across global and international businesses to understand best practice and to ensure all relevant policies and procedures are adhered to
• Partner with second line of defense teams to support operational reporting and associated governance forums
• Collaborate with partner teams on issues and events investigation, root cause analysis and suggested remediation actions, if applicable
• 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
• Create/maintain process and governance documentation, such as process-flows, scorecards, SOPs, and presentation materials
• Assist in evaluating local (jurisdictional) regulatory changes and their impact on processes, 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 responsibility areas.
• Collaborate with broader horizontal FRM partner teams to provide risk analysis, insights and reporting metrics
• Support partner FRM program teams in relevant recurring and ad hoc risk activities--process level risk assessments, payments control testing, etc.
• As relevant, provide pre, during and post audit/exam management and risk advisory support for our impacted business partners

• Bachelor's Degree or military experience
• At least 1 year of combined professional work experience, which must include at least 6 months of experience within the financial services industry

• 1+ years of Risk Management experience in Finance, Compliance, Audit, Payments or a combination
• 1+ years of experience in executing complex, cross functional projects
• Experience with regulatory compliance assessment and mitigation
• Experience with international risk reporting
• Effective communication,…