Principal Associate, Financial Analyst - Card Finance
Capital OneAbout the role
Capital One is seeking a motivated professional for a Principal Associate position in Card Finance. In this role you will work directly with our Mainstreet Customer Management business partners supporting the strategy of their portfolio in addition to getting to work as a part of a highly collaborative finance team on a variety of whitespace projects. By supporting the largest P&L at Capital One, you’ll get to combine high value deep-dive analytics with influential storytelling, often communicating with some of the top leaders at the company. This role will expose the associate to new technologies and will provide the opportunity to further develop technology skills (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, etc.) as well as more traditional FP&A competencies.
The Principal Financial Analyst role requires strong communication, problem solving, strategic thinking, and influencing skills in order to effectively:
Articulate outcomes of analysis and relevant insights
Partner with business leadership to assess the financial implications of strategic growth initiatives
Develop presentations to communicate business and analysis results to senior leadership audiences
General Responsibilities:
Deliver accurate, meaningful, and efficient financial forecasts and management reporting to help our partners deliver on their financial objectives
Financial reporting and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and P&L management
Coordinate and collect input data from Business and Financial Analysts in different departments, check data integrity, summarize and convert data, run models, verify, analyze, and communicate output data
Business presentations: Assist in development of presentations to communicate analysis results to senior audiences, clearly articulate outcomes of analysis to leadership teams
Ad-hoc requests and special projects
Independently manage and prioritize workload
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
At least 3 years’ experience in financial analysis
At least 3 years’ experience with financial modeling
Experience in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Master’s Degree in Finance
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) license or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license
4+ years’ experience in financial analysis
4+ years’ experience with financial modeling
3+ years’ experience in strategic analysis & planning
Proven business relationship, communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills
Demonstrated independent problem solving and strategic thinking abilities
Strong teamwork skills with the ability to positively contribute to overall success of the team
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 of hours to be regularly worked.
Chicago, IL: $106,700 - $121,700 for Principal Financial Analyst
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.Capital On
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