Principal Risk Specialist, Third- Party Strategy | Retail Bank

Principal Risk Specialist, Third- Party Strategy | Retail Bank

Job Description

At Capital One, you will help drive initiatives, programs and projects to implement strategic enhancements in Third Party Management. Capital One includes innovative businesses that include merchants along with traditional third party relationships. We are seeking a strategic, pragmatic and practical third party risk specialist in the Banking & Premium Products Third Party Management team. This associate will have a seasoned understanding of financial services third party management focused on complex inventories to include affiliate relationships. They are collaborative, innovative, influential and able to push the envelope. They will challenge and innovate within the team to drive process improvements to elevate program strategy with a focus on well managed third party management risk.

Responsibilities:

• Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders 

• Proactively identify third party risks and partner with key stakeholders to reduce or eliminate risk

• Coordinate and execute proactive consulting to both internal and external teams as it relates to third party risk including controls and mitigation

• Support business and tech related projects and initiatives and influence customers to make solid business decisions 

• Influence customers to leverage risk based capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the development processes

• Support data and cyber security risks

• Provide ad hoc support on special departmental goals, objectives, and initiatives

• Work with line of business leadership to anticipate their objectives and needs to better serve the line of business

• Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills 

About You:

• Financial services third party risk professional with a background in complex third party inventory risk management 

• You have a desire to work in a very fast moving, forward leaning, and modern computing environment

• You have a strong desire to continually learn about new technologies

• You possess strong conceptual thinking and communication skills

• You are able to work well under minimal supervision

• You have extensive market affiliate third party experience

• You are a demonstrated team-oriented professional with interpersonal skills and the ability to interface effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management, IT leaders, and external third parties

• You maintain calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and ability to maintain confidentiality

• You demonstrate strong ability to analyze information and data

• You demonstrate strong subject matter expertise and sound judgment when analyzing third party risk

• You operate in a collaborative manner to effectively assess risk while maintaining business relationships

• You develop and communicate quality recommendations to key stakeholders

• You communicate technical issues to non-technical people

• You demonstrate collaborative partnership skills for working with various points of contacts

• You demonstrate capacity to think broadly but go deep into subject matter when needed

• You have a deep understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to drive results toward those objectives

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience working in third party risk management including affiliate relationships

• At least 2 years of experience performing risk assessments at a Financial Institution

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with PCI DSS, NIST, ISO, Physical Security, or IT Operations Management Certifications

• 3+ years of experience at a Financial Institution

• 3+ years of experience in Third Party Security Risk with Cyber or Data

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

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