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Sr. Business Analyst - Incentive Compensation Risk Management

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$111,200 - $126,900 per year

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Description

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

The Role: 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.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
  • Involve problem frameworks, develop hypotheses, test and analysis, solution development, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan
  • 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
  • Demonstrate a proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics
  • Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity
  • Strong communication skills
  • Clear results orientation

Requirements:

  • 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 or a Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
  • 1+ years of experience in evaluating incentive compensation plan designs
  • 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building
  • 1+ years of experience in SQL querying
  • 2+ years of experience in business analysis
  • 1+ years of experience in consulting

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

Salary: McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 for Sr. Business Analyst Richmond, VA: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Business Analyst

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Statistical model building
  • SQL querying
  • consulting
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