Principal Risk Specialist
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 Associate 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 Associates 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 Associates 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:

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
• At least 2 years of experience supporting risk management
• At least 2 years of project management experience
• At least 2 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal business clients

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• 3+ years of Project Management experience leading cross functional projects and programs in risk
• 3+ years of payments operations or financial services risk management experience
• Certification within the payments industry (e.g., AAP, APRP)

• 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 activitie