Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise Payments

Capital One•McLean, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

As a Principal Risk Specialist 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 Specialists 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 Specialists 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.

Requirements

At least 2 years of financial services risk management experience
At least 2 years of payments operations experience or risk management experience
At least 2 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal business clients
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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Provide advice and guidance to line of business leaders on risks impacting one or more areas within the Enterprise Payments Governance Office
Develop and leverage key relationships with Enterprise Payments and functional stakeholders to enable collaboration across the enterprise
Identify and track issues and events to mitigate risk within Enterprise Payments. Coordinate with applicable business areas to define and implement remediation activities
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.
Provide support to Enterprise Payments during audits; support in the delivery of key risk mitigation and remediation activities