Senior Business Analyst - Climate & Geopolitical Risk

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Are you looking for a role that challenges you to bring Capital One’s risk ecosystem to life? Are you interested in building tools and performing analysis to enable senior executives to better understand how climate and geopolitical events impact our business? If so, a position as a Senior Associate, Business Analyst on the Climate & Geopolitical Risk team may be your perfect fit. The primary responsibilities of the analyst will be to help run capabilities to assess the impact of key climate and geopolitical events and trends over the immediate, short, medium, and long-term horizons, across all our Lines of Business (LOBs). The team partners with people across Capital One with diverse skills and backgrounds including: data analysts, product managers, data scientists, risk managers, and business analysts. As a Senior Associate, Business Analyst at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to address major company challenges. You will team with world-class professionals to develop and develop analytics and reporting tools that will help senior executives to better understand climate and geopolitical risks. And you will do it all in a collaboration environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. The Senior Associate, Business Analyst will report to the Head of Climate & Geopolitical Risk Management.

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 (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
• A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building
• 1+ years of experience in market research
• 1+ years of experience in SQL querying
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis
• 1+ years of experience in consulting
• 1+ years of experience working with AI coding, such as Claude Code
• Previous consulting experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive a cross-functional effort to develop, implement and mature climate risk analytics capabilities across the firm
• Design and develop tools for monitoring and managing geopolitical risks across the enterprise
• Develop reporting on the outcomes of climate and geopolitical analysis to a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, Board, and regulators
• Contribute to appropriate scenario design processes for climate and geopolitical risk
• Run ad hoc analysis to support the identification and assessment of climate related and geopolitical risks
• Identify incremental data needs relative to climate and geopolitical risk analytics and participate in efforts to acquire and/or improve the quality of this data
• Support climate risk content for external disclosures (e.g., 10-K, Climate disclosures)
• 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, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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