Principal Risk Specialist

Capital One•Richmond, VA
•$109,900 - $125,400

About The Position

As a Principal Risk Specialist at Capital One, you will work with business partners to identify and mitigate potential risks to the company. The role serves as a front line of defense to help ensure Capital One remains stable and profitable. Principal Risk Specialists are motivated risk management professionals with strong organizational and communication skills, broad exposure across lines of business, and opportunities to create and implement innovative risk identification and mitigation solutions. The position provides risk consulting to one or more business areas, supports retail deposit compliance monitoring and reporting, and leads process-level change control. It also involves building stakeholder relationships and coordinating corrective actions to mitigate risks.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or military experience.
  • At least 3 years of Risk Management experience.

Nice To Haves

  • 3 or more years of Project Management experience leading cross-functional projects and programs in Risk.
  • 4 or more years of Risk Management experience.
  • PMP Certification or Master's Certificate of Project Management (CPM).

Responsibilities

  • Provide risk consulting to one or more business areas and offer advice and guidance relative to their business lines.
  • Develop and leverage key stakeholder relationships to enable collaboration across the enterprise.
  • Identify and track events and issues, and coordinate with applicable business areas to define and implement remediation activities.
  • Monitor and report on Retail Deposit Compliance efforts.
  • Lead process-level change control efforts to ensure impacts are appropriately assessed, documented, and implemented.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.
  • Eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
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