Senior Manager, International Risk Assessments

Senior Manager, International Risk Assessments

At Capital One, we are building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking globally. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.                                               

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. 

Capital One is one of the fastest growing organizations in the world today and we are growing our teams globally. As a Senior Risk Manager for international strategic change risk assessments, you will play a pivotal role in developing and driving our international risk management framework for Capital One’s largest, most complex initiatives. 

The Senior Manager for Strategic Change Risk Assessments will support our Enterprise Services (ES) Risk office in Capital One’s first line of defense, and will be on the forefront of enabling our business partners to efficiently and effectively deliver strategic change initiatives (e.g., international activities), while ensuring that risks are appropriately identified and mitigated. Specifically, in this position, you will help lead the international risk assessment processes for ES, which includes executing and enhancing our risk management processes to achieve strategic transformational change objectives, influencing outcomes supporting the broader enterprise International Risk Strategy, and driving consistency and transparency to ensure that we consistently identify individual risks to mitigate, as well as comprehensively roll up key themes and generate views of aggregate risk across the company. You will collaborate closely with associates and senior leaders across all lines of defense, Lines of Business, and other risk management teams to support this work. This includes developing and implementing risk management frameworks and approaches for the organization, and managing a sustainable and mature process to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor risk.

Senior Risk Managers at Capital One are highly motivated risk and process management professionals with excellent analytical, organizational, risk management, project management, and communication skills. These skills allow us to gain insights, and act as a change agent to influence our business partners. As Capital One evolves to meet the ever-changing technology landscape, so do our risk managers. A successful Strategic Risk Manager operates from a foundation of knowledge about the Line of Business with whom they are working, the international risk landscape (e.g., geopolitical, laws / regulations), processes and associated controls, and good risk management practices. They are forward thinking, quick to adapt, and technologically adept. Strategic Risk Managers have a broad level of exposure across the Lines of Business, and have the opportunity to work with the business to create and implement innovative solutions to appropriately manage risks across the enterprise. The demands and high-visibility nature of this position require an expert with leadership presence, a proven ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, and who can begin contributing immediately. 

Responsibilities: 

• Drive and coordinate work related to Capital One’s emerging strategic change risk management function, specifically developing the approach strategic change international risk assessment processes and conducting associated assessments

• Track and assess international initiatives through Enterprise Wide risk assessment. processes, working with the First Line Technology and Cyber teams, Lines of Business, and Second Line teams, to ensure effective collaboration within the team and across stakeholder groups

• Provided embedded and proactive advisory within Capital One’s largest, most complex strategic initiatives

• Assist the ES Risk, Enterprise Wide initiative, and Country leadership team(s) in delivering their strategy and service model

• Assist and drive project and program delivery, including project and process management, reporting, engagement in senior leadership meetings, drafting and