# Senior Associate

**Company**: Capital One
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,500 - $110,100
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Credit and Financial Risk Management (CFRM) Risk Office at Capital One is seeking a highly motivated Senior Associate to apply their critical thinking, analytical, risk, communication, and process management skills.

In this role, you will contribute to CFRM's overarching risk management strategy by providing counsel, thought leadership, and driving execution across risk assessments, audits, reporting, issue management, control optimization, and process efficiency initiatives.

You will also be responsible for identifying, tracking, and reporting on trends for issues related to CFRM's governance and oversight processes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Understand CFRM's strategy and contribute to its evolution over time; understand how CFRM executes its responsibilities and help CFRM effectively communicate those activities;

- Assist in managing engagements, including internal audits impacting CFRM;

- Assist in facilitating risk assessments and related activities, providing counsel, advice, challenge, and driving outcomes;

- Provide thought leadership and guidance to business partners on implementing control enhancements to elevate risk mitigation;

- Oversee issue management by monitoring issue remediation, tracking, and closure across CFRM governance processes;

- Leverage industry benchmarking, AI-powered tools, and best practices to automate workflows and drive continuous process improvements across Business as Usual (BAU) operations;

- Analyze data to proactively identify risks, trends, and process management improvements;

- Build an understanding of the changing regulatory environment, analyze business environment trends, and evaluate their impacts to overall Risk Management within CFRM;

- Effectively collaborate with CFRM Risk Advisors, business stakeholders, and other risk management professionals across all three lines of defense;

- Assist in execution of special projects and engagements in collaboration with the overall Risk Management Team and Leadership.

**Desired Skills:**

- Understanding of banking activities and the three lines of defense framework;

- Proactive self-starter who anticipates what is coming next to drive both Business As Usual execution and continuous improvements;

- Critical and analytical thinker with an aptitude for synthesizing complex issues into a clear and concise summary;

- Strong process management and organizational skills with keen attention to detail;

- Highly motivated and results-oriented;

- Experience using AI-powered tools or automation to drive process efficiencies;

- Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear presentation materials and provide counsel to business partners;

- Independent problem-solver with the ability to navigate ambiguity;

- Ability to establish credibility, trust, and support within all levels of the organization;

- Willing to learn, adapts easily to change, and confident with diverse thinking;

- Knowledge and experience using Google Workspace.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree or military experience;

- At least 2 years of experience consulting, auditing, or working in the fields of model and data, or risk management.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 3+ years experience consulting, auditing, or working in the fields of model and data, or risk management;

- 2+ years experience interacting or engaging with internal audit or federal regulators;

- Experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency;

- Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.

**Salary Information:**

- McLean, VA: $96,500 - $110,100 for Sr. Risk Associate;

- Richmond, VA: $87,700 - $100,100 for Sr. Risk Associate.

**Benefits:**

- Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- banking activities
- three lines of defense framework
- process management
- organizational skills
- communication skills
- AI-powered tools
- Google Workspace

### Nice to have
- consulting
- auditing
- risk management
- internal audit
- federal regulators
- second-line or oversight role

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