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Principal Associate, Cyber Risk Management | Retail Bank

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Mar 2025
💰 $133,900/yr($117,300/yr$133,900/yr)

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Principal Associate, Cyber Risk Management | Retail Bank

Principal Associate, Cyber Risk Management | Retail Bank

As a Principal Associate in Capital One’s Retail Bank Division, you will apply your risk management and cyber expertise to the company’s Technology organization. You will partner across Enterprise Services, Divisional BISO team, Second Line of defense, and Technology teams to develop and support best-in-class industry cyber risk identification and mitigation solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders and associates. Collaboration with various teams will entail implementation of risk and control tools, techniques, and frameworks for the Retail Bank organization, as well as provide cyber risk advisory services into our first line control owners. Your contributions will drive organizational change through effective and proactive risk identification, measurement, analysis of cyber and technology risks and reporting in order to better manage the company’s risk in an open and collaborative environment.

This highly collaborative role will work with various stakeholders to deliver value-added risk management services to our Technology savvy business partners. You will work across lines of business and have the opportunity to partner with cybersecurity subject matter experts to create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the Company. Familiarity with cyber risk management programs and frameworks (such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53) will be key to achieving success in this role. The successful candidate will be a professional who is proactive and familiar with cyber risk frameworks, cyber control environments, technology functions, and organizations, with strong analytical, planning, strategic thinking, organizational and polished communication skills. This role will report to the Cyber Risk Manager within the Retail Bank.


Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Retail Bank Tech and Business teams to assess their compliance with the divisional and enterprise level cybersecurity control.

  • Assist the Retail Bank Tech Cyber & Data team in delivering against their strategy and service model

  • Proactively drive identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting on cyber risks inherent to business and technology concepts

  • Apply understanding of cybersecurity controls to proactively mitigate risks  to the assigned areas of technology

  • Influence control owners and other stakeholders  to build consensus on risk mitigation and remediation strategies

  • Support key strategic cybersecurity initiatives and assess impact of these initiatives on the Retail Bank control environment

  • Proactively identify and implement continual program enhancements based on industry standards and best practices related to cyber risk management 

  • Design and implement information based internal risk and control governance 

  • Build successful relationships with line of business risk offices and team members to understand impact of technology risk on critical business processes

  • Support Risk and Control  Self Assessments

  • Excellent work prioritization skills to proactively drive the right priorities

Basic Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification

  • At least 2 years experience in Cybersecurity, Audit or Technology Risk Management

  • At least 1 year of experience in Business Process Management, Project Management, Relationship Management or Risk Management

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree

  • 1+ years experience in a financial institution

  • 3+ years of Project Management or Compliance Experience

  • Cyber security certification such as Security+, CISM/A, or CISSP

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $117,300 - $133,900 for Pr

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