Senior Associate, Corporate Strategy

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Founded by former strategy consultants, Capital One is a strategy driven company. The Corporate Strategy group engages on a number of ultra-high impact issues that drive the direction and performance of the company. Projects focus primarily on formulating enduring and profitable growth and value enhancement strategies, while working within the business to ensure follow through. The Corporate Research team (within Corporate Strategy) serves as Capital One’s competitive intelligence team, leveraging data, research, and financial analysis to provide company leadership with competitive and market intelligence, insights and advice, and strategic communications. As an analyst on the Corporate Research team, you will collaborate with C-suite executives, Strategy, Investor Relations, Finance, and various other teams across the company to provide research support, market insight, and company-wide communication. You will work on a variety of different initiatives in a close team environment. Many of the day-to-day projects emphasize a need for strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. Key to success in the role will be synthesizing information from various sources, performing analysis, and integrating findings into cohesive and insightful presentations and summaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 2 years of consulting or investment banking experience

Nice To Haves

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Interest or experience with the banking or payments industries
• Financial modeling or investment research expertise
• Strong judgment and problem-solving skills
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Naturally inquisitive with a passion to “figure stuff out”
• Confidence and intent to drive change

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical support to senior management across the company
• Provide recurring and ad hoc research to support various business lines and internal partners
• Benchmark Capital One’s performance vs. industry competitors
• Daily monitoring of financial and economic events to inform senior leadership how they impact Capital One
• Analysis of large financial data sets (Fed, FDIC, Census, etc.)
• ‘Deep dives’ and longer-term projects on a wide range of topics relevant to Capital One
• Ad hoc project work with partner teams (Strategy, Corporate Development)
• Analyze and benchmark Capital One and competitor capital and balance sheet performance (including CCAR, DFAST, funding profile, regulatory disclosures, etc.)

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior