Principal Associate, Capital Markets and Risk

Principal Associate, Capital Markets and Risk

As a Principal Associate, Capital Markets and Risk 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.

The Market and Liquidity Risk Oversight (MLRO) team performs independent risk management of the firm’s balance sheet activities conducted by the company’s Capital Markets group, Treasury group, and other lines of business engaged in managing our balance sheet.  Our team’s work includes risk analysis, strategic thinking, market research, and developing an independent perspective across risk factors influencing Capital One.   

The MLRO team covers a wide range of risk management activities within Capital One.  We are constantly evaluating financial markets and business trends to understand and quantify the impact to Capital One’s risk management framework.  This Principal Associate role will allow the successful candidate  to grow into an expert on interest rate risk, liquidity risk, funds transfer pricing, stress testing, and other areas as well. You will interact with many different business groups with the ability to provide independent analysis and effective challenge. The ideal candidate will possess:

• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills

• Strong foundational understanding of finance and broader macro economics

• Comfort with data governance and data management with proven experience working with large data sets

• An understanding of the banking system and financial market concepts

• Fluency with python and experience using python in a financial setting

• Some experience using AI tools such as Gemini to automate and improve the day to day processes being run within a team

• The ability to communicate complex topics to a wide range of audiences

• Experience working in a liquidity risk team and an understanding of bank liquidity regulatory requirements a bonus

• An understanding of a bank balances sheet dynamics including securities investments, cash management, wholesale funding activity and loans/deposits a bonus 

Specific Responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Proactively engaging with lines of businesses and providing analytical support for research, analysis, and independent risk management in various areas of MLRO’s oversight of balance sheet risk

• Become a subject matter expert in one or more areas of balance sheet risk oversight, such as interest rate risk, stress testing, liquidity risk, or funds transfer pricing

• Utilize technology to perform data analysis and support process automation as a source of independent risk assessment

• Understand and analyze financial market developments and regulatory guidance in relation to the impact on the balance sheet 

• Interacting with key stakeholders across multiple organizations to evaluate risk and providing support for balance sheet analysis

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree 

• At least 3 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis

Preferred Qualifications: 

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

• 3+ years of experience in risk management or capital markets

• 3+ years of experience in banking industry or equivalent financial services firm

• 3+ years of experience working with business intelligence tools

• 2+ years of experience in SQL, Python, Snowflake, and Excel

• 2+ years of experience in data analytic tools, including Tableau and Quicksites

• 2+ years of experience in bank stress testing, interest rate risk, or liquidity risk management practices or regulations

• 2+ year of experience in consulting

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 l