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Principal Associate, External Affairs Risk Guide, Enterprise Services Risk Office

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Jun 2025
💰 $158,700/yr($115,900/yr$158,700/yr)

About the role

Principal Associate, External Affairs Risk Guide, Enterprise Services Risk Office

We are hiring! The Enterprise Services Business Risk Office provides risk management support to several lines of business including: Brand, Enterprise Supplier Management, Enterprise Products & Experience (EPX), Software, External Affairs, eData, Global Workplace Solutions, Emerging Payments, Ventures, and Tech.  As the risk team for Enterprise Services Business Risk, we are on the cutting edge of risk management and provide support for new and emerging technologies as well as critical business strategies. Capital One has taken a bold journey to build a technology company, while operating in a complex, highly regulated business. 

​​As a Business Risk Principal Associate in Capital One’s Enterprise Services (ES) Risk organization, you will apply your risk management and analytical skills to some of our highest profile Risk Management projects. As a Risk Manager in the Enterprise Services Risk Office, we are the first line of defense to help ensure our Company remains well-managed and avoids unnecessary risk. In this position, you will play a key role in enhancing our third party risk management processes across Capital One and driving project and program delivery. 

Here's what we're looking for in an ideal candidate:

  • You are a critical thinker who seeks to understand the business and its control environment.

  • You possess a relentless focus on quality and timeliness.

  • You adapt to change, embrace bold ideas, and are intellectually curious. You like to ask questions, test assumptions, and challenge conventional thinking.

  • You develop influential relationships based upon shared risk objectives and trust to deliver outstanding business impact.

  • You create energy and an environment that fosters trust, collaboration, and belonging, making it easy to attract, hire, and retain top talent.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with the External Affairs teams in the development and drive the execution of the risk management strategy and deliver on enterprise and team objectives.

  • Partner with the business partners to deliver on the identification and development of risks, issues, and/or mitigation plans to ensure the business implements needed changes and addresses areas of exposure.

  • Develop and help to deliver senior level risk management reporting and communications

  • Collaborate effectively with colleagues, stakeholders, and leaders across multiple organizations to achieve strategic objectives 

  • Coordinate program-related activities and deliverables to ensure effective collaboration within the team and across stakeholder groups

  • Continuously look for ways to improve and innovate in our approach to risk management.

  • Establish and maintain relationships with Enterprise Services process owners, process managers, and vertical risk advisors

Basic Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification

  • At least 1 year of experience in the Financial Services or Technology industry, or a combination

  • At least 3 years of experience in project, program, process or risk management, or a combination

  • At least 3 years of experience facilitating and leading discussions across various disciplines


 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience 

  • 3+ years of experience in risk management, technology, or a related discipline

  • 3+ years of experience in Risk Management

  • 1+ years of experience in Financial Services industry

  • 1+ years of experience in controls development, controls management, risk reporting activities such as process level assessments and risk and control self assessments

  • 3+ years of leading highly cross-functional programs

  • 3+ years of experience consulting with senior executives or strategy building, or a combination

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

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