Senior Director, Cyber Risk & Analysis | Retail Bank

Senior Director, Cyber Risk & Analysis | Retail Bank

Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our mission is to create one of the nation’s great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared Values, come together to make Capital One a great company – and a great place to work.

As a Senior Director, Cyber Risk and Analysis- you will apply expertise on cyber best practices to assess current state, identify gaps, and assess cyber risk, threats, and business impact. Defines mitigation strategies, prioritizes and escalates recommendations. Participates in design and implementation of cyber control programs. Cybersecurity area-specific SME [knowledge of risk frameworks, information security risk assessments, information risk controls, regulatory and internal governance], data analysis [metrics and reporting], & customer engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Possesses an understanding of technology systems at an aggregate level, including networks, applications, cloud computing, and data.

• Maintains a broad understanding of relevant operating systems and their respective risks in order to quickly identify the severity of potential issues [doesn't just know how the tools and reports work, but also how to recognize risk].

• Demonstrates a broad understanding of major categories of tech, cyber, and data threats, how those threats can occur in our environment, and the measures required to safeguard the enterprise.

• Leverages reporting & tools [doesn't build them] to perform analysis on different types of projects, efforts, or datasets & uses data to inform policies and drive change. Understands associated reporting metrics and is able to think strategically and innovatively.

• Quickly and accurately analyzes data, assesses risk, & prioritizes published and potential risks to differentiate critical, high-risk, and low-risk issues, and escalate as appropriate.

• Researches, assembles, and/or evaluates information regarding industry practices or applicable regulatory changes affecting the business and recommends sound, practical solutions to complex issues including influencing enterprise policies and processes.

• Effectively self-challenges risk control programs as part of first line duties and escalates risks where appropriate.

• Demonstrates sound lifecycle program management to include documenting and communicating action plans, impediments and risks, and stakeholder engagement.

• Manages internal and external risk assessments relative to the line of business to ensure proper functionality and alignment with enterprise standards [able to understand and explain, but not required to resolve].

• Acts a primary risk partner for the tech executives and advises Accountable Executives of risks on a consistent basis via relevant risk forums and through existing processes such as exception and issue management.

• Keeps pace with evolving tech and cyber threat landscape to ensure ongoing relevance of cyber risk mitigation and has knowledge of leading Technology and Cybersecurity frameworks.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 7 years of experience with Technology or Cyber Security Risk Management

• At least 7 years of experience in People Management

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Process or Project Management certification (i.e. Lean, Six Sigma, PMP), Business Management certification

• 10+ years of experience with Technology or Cyber Security Risk Management

• 9+ years of experience in People Management

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