McLean 1 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Associate - Enterprise Controls Tester

As a Senior Associate in Capital One's Enterprise Services (ES) Risk, you will apply your analytical and delivery skills to our highest profile Risk Management projects. You will partner across Enterprise Services to develop and support cutting-edge Risk solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders, and associates. You will partner with peers and senior leaders, second and third lines of defense, as well as lines of business to drive organizational change in order to better manage the Company's risk in an open, collaborative environment where new ideas and solutions are both welcomed and rewarded.

This position will play a key role in the organization's first line of defense independent controls monitoring and testing program by providing subject matter expertise in providing control build, monitoring/testing, and oversight capabilities. This position will perform independent first line monitoring and testing of the first line of business controls to evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, document findings, create reports, and support remediation planning. As part of the first line of defense, you will collaborate closely with associates in the second line functions, third line audit, and broader organization, as well as risk management offices in the various lines of business, to perform and support evaluations of the effectiveness of the company's controls infrastructure, and offer independent advice and recommendations regarding ways to further mature the company's risk management capabilities.

Enterprise Services Risk professionals are experienced, well-trained, and progressive individuals that operate within a highly collaborative team environment to deliver value-added risk services to our business partners. The candidate will be a highly-motivated Risk Management professional with excellent support, analytical, planning, collaboration, and communication skills. This will be a challenging role in a dynamic and fast-paced environment requiring ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments appropriately.

Responsibilities:

This role supports the ES Risk's horizontal Core Risk Program and specifically, this role will:

• Perform assessment analysis of requirements and controls to existing processes
  
• Ability to understand and follow documented planning, testing, and reporting procedures
  
• Assist in enhancing and implementing a service model that meets the requirements of the new Enterprise Risk and Controls Standards requirements and ongoing change control processes
  
• Demonstrate ability to understand complex processes and how they align to policy/regulatory requirements
  
• Contribute to developing an effective engagement model with ES' Risk Guides to identify, document, and monitor risks across all ES verticals via Risk Assessments (such as RCSA, PRA, and Scenario Analysis) and other channels
  
• Proactively identify process improvements that will improve Risk Assessment and Controls Management practices
  
• Partner with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and other second line partners and Enterprise Services teams to enhance the Risk Assessments framework and to develop and build out the Controls Management framework for ES
  
• Support innovation through process improvements and automation
  
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment and support ad hoc projects
  
• Establish and maintain good client relations during controls testing engagements
  
• Strong ability to create and deliver verbal and written communications between business partners
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or military experience
  
• At least 3 years of Risk Management experience
  
• At least 3 years of experience in implementing and managing controls validation assessments or controls testing functions
  
• At least 2 years of experience working with internal business customers
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of experience using automated testing tools
  
• At least 1 year of project management experience
  
• At least 1 year of experience in Presentation/Communication
  
• Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, Business Process Management, or Project Management certification
  
• Ability to communicate clearly and to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, and to influence as warranted and appropriate
  
• Experience in requirements evaluation
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Understanding of risks and risk mitigation or corrective actions
  
• Experience auditing internal controls
  

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.