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Senior Business Director - Enterprise Risk Management

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$245,100 - $335,700

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Description

As a Senior Business Director at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll 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.

POSITION FUNCTION: As a senior leader in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), you will join a critical second-line-of-defense function responsible for defining the bank’s risk management architecture.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities Include:

  • Actively lead our strategic approach to transform Risk Management:
  • Understand strategic issues
  • Oversee the development of project proposals, work plans, primary and secondary research, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
  • Manage ambiguity and consistently seek to drive clarity amongst team, partners and key stakeholders.
  • Craft storylines that clearly articulate findings, insights, and recommendations.
  • Directly liaise and communicate with senior leadership to move the organization to action.
  • Thought Partnership: Develop and maintain relationships with key business leaders to enable improved decision-making around go-to-market strategy.
  • Team Leadership: Manage, mentor and support the development of less experienced associates on the team.
  • Internal Leadership: Responsible for helping to lead and drive internal initiatives including but not limited to recruiting, staffing, diversity & inclusion, social activities, etc.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

  • Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands
  • Leadership: May manage and develop multiple analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
  • Execution: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
  • Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
  • Strategic; analytic orientation: 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: They should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
  • Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. They should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
  • Strong executive 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. They should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 5 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
  • At least 5 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
  • At least 3 years of experience performing people management
  • At least 3 years of experience performing project management

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters Degree
  • 5+ years of experience in people management
  • 3+ years of experience in product development
  • 3+ year of experience in consulting
  • 3+ years of experience in financial modeling
  • 3+ years of experience in economic forecasting

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Chicago, IL: $245,100 - $279,800 for Sr Business Director McLean, VA: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr Business Director New York, NY: $294,100 - $335,700 for Sr Business Director Richmond, VA: $245,100 - $279,800 for Sr Business Director

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