Business Manager - Strategic Risk: Insights & Analysis

Capital One • McLean, VA

1d • $149,800 - $188,100

About The Position

Business Manager - Strategic Risk: Insights & Analysis As a Business Analysis Manager at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. About the role: We are seeking a Strategic Risk Insights & Analysis Business Manager to join the Strategic Risk team. This is a high visibility role that offers direct engagement with executive leadership to influence risk management decisions to manage the most significant strategic risks facing the organization. This second-line role resides at the intersection of risk management and strategy to provide independent oversight, review, and challenge of strategic risks that may impact the achievement of the company's strategic objectives or core business model. The Business Manager will focus on ensuring that risk from competitive disruption, the changing external landscape, evolving regulations or the company's own strategic choices are appropriately considered in decision-making and risk management routines.

Requirements

• Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
• Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment.
• Previous consulting experience is a plus
• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in any quantitative field (Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science, Engineering)
• At least 2 years of experience in analysis

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• At least 5 years of Corporate Strategy, Financial Services Consulting, Analysis, or Enterprise Risk Management experience
• Deep knowledge of the financial services and payments industry

Responsibilities

• Analysis: Assess the impact of short, medium, and longer term changes to the competitive landscape and external environment on the risk of achieving the company's strategic objectives or business model
• Thought Leadership: Develop and share thought leadership on the trends shaping the future of banking and payments
• Scenario Analysis: Lead scenario analysis with Business Risk Offices and other stakeholders on significant risk themes, such as sustained erosion of interchange fee income
• Oversight: Review and challenge: (1) strategic risk that may impact the achievement of the company's strategic imperatives or result from pursuing those objectives; (2) strategic risk from launches of new products or services; (3) underlying assumptions in long-term capital planning, liquidity stress testing, and balance sheet management from a strategic risk lens (e.g., a sustained low-interest-rate environment, payments disruption)
• Teamwork: Partner with stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes
• Reporting: Create executive-ready materials on strategic risk topics

What This Job Offers

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