Sr Business Analyst, Commercial Bank Sustainable Finance

Sr Business Analyst, Commercial Bank Sustainable Finance

Summary:

As a Senior Business Analyst at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will 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 team:

The team’s core responsibility is developing and executing the Commercial Bank’s Sustainable Finance strategy by delivering data driven insights, pioneering thought leadership, and fostering cross-functional collaboration across Capital One. Its goal is to drive sustainability-related Commercial activity in line with Capital One’s resiliency and growth objectives as well as the interests of customers, shareholders, employees, and regulators. Key workstreams include supporting risk management focused on known and emerging financial and credit risks, benchmarking external factors that will influence the evolving strategy, and identifying and executing on new opportunities for solutions that better serve our Commercial Clients. A Senior Business Analyst on the Commercial Sustainable Finance team applies strategic and analytical skills to their work. The Senior Business Analyst will track competitor, regulator, and client positioning, manage Sustainable Finance reporting for Commercial, and work closely with the Head of Sustainable Finance and internal stakeholders to identify and develop our data and reporting needs to support evolving strategic initiatives and potential public disclosures.

Responsibilities:

Hires are expected to be well-rounded and inventive problem-solvers comfortable addressing ambiguous questions, executing sophisticated analyses and presenting recommendations to senior leaders. A focus on teamwork and building long-term trusted partnerships, both within the team and beyond, are essential to success. Strong interpersonal skills, poise, and a willingness to roll up one's sleeves and tackle diverse challenges as they come are invaluable in this business. 

Specific responsibilities & competencies include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on data analysis and intellectual rigor

• Market analysis & forecasting: Analyze sustainable finance performance trends (internal and market trends), investigate variance, frame up risks and opportunities, anticipate future outcomes, and make recommendations 

• Quality and clarity: Pursue standardization and clarity around how we analyze data, and support improvements in our data infrastructure to be more robust and reliable. Deliver error-free work and crystal clear insights to enable rapid response efforts and efficient decision-making. Scope of work examples include building, owning & maintaining Commercial Sustainable Finance Dashboards, owning data and calculations to support climate-related disclosures, and managing regular reporting to Commercial leadership

• Clear results orientation: Display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. Be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment. Lead individual workstreams to completion and support cross-functional working groups 

• Foster a collaborative culture: Champion our culture to enable all associates to deliver career-defining successes and exceed our goals in an open and welcoming environment. Lean in as appropriate to support partners and peers to drive highest business priorities

• Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect and negotiation skills

• Learning Agility:  Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. This includes an eagerness to pick up new skills including SQL and Python and investigate external data and tools relevant to Sustainable Finance initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any quantitative field (Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science, Engineering)

• At least 1 year of experience in analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering

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