Senior Manager, Financial Crimes and International Senior Counsel

Senior Manager, Financial Crimes and International Senior Counsel

The Capital One Legal Department is seeking a highly-motivated attorney to serve as Financial Crimes and International Senior Counsel. In this role, you will provide strategic legal advice and tackle complex problems at the intersection of financial crimes, technology, and international regulation. You will work with colleagues across Capital One’s lines of business, as well as with compliance officers, auditors, and regulators, and you’ll do it all in a collaborative, supportive environment that values your insight, promotes continuous learning, and rewards creative thinking.

The attorney in this position will join our Payments | Privacy | Integrity | International legal team, which supports all of Capital One’s business lines and advises on a broad range of subject matter. Working closely with senior leadership in Legal and with business, compliance, and risk partners, you will coordinate internal resources and discussions on regulatory initiatives that may include some combination of anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, foreign legal frameworks, trade and export compliance, as well as other related international legal issues. You will operate at the intersection of financial services and technology, and you will brainstorm, problem-solve, and innovate to assess and mitigate legal and regulatory risk in a challenging and evolving space.

We are looking for an attorney who is collaborative, inquisitive, and enthusiastic about law and technology, who can operate with agility in areas where the law is not clear, and who can also play a broader role as new issues arise in the areas covered by our team. You’ll need strong analytical and organizational skills, great judgment, the ability to express complexity in simple terms to non-experts, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment. We want someone with an ownership mentality who nonetheless enjoys being part of a team, who can interact with and influence across departments and job levels, and who always brings a good sense of humor to the party. 
 

Responsibilities likely to include:

• Identify and assess legal risk with respect to various cross-border initiatives.

• Provide legal advice as part of a collaborative and cross-functional team.

• Analyze and interpret new laws and regulations and assist in devising compliance methods that meet business goals and objectives. 

• Advise on the design and updating of policy frameworks based on regulatory expectations and industry standards, and facilitate their implementation with cross-functional internal stakeholders.

• Manage outside counsel. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school

• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar

• At least 5 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment, at a government agency, or as in-house counsel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Legal subject matter expertise in anti-bribery/anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, export controls, payments, privacy, and/or trade compliance

• Experience working with cross-border, cross-functional teams

• Knowledge of international regulatory frameworks

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is hybrid meaning associates spend 3 days per week in-person at one of our offices listed on this job posting. Fridays are enterprise- wide virtual work days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are options for in-person days for associates to spend time together working in our beautifully-designed team areas.

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.

McLean, VA: $193,000 - $220,300 for Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel

 

Richmond, VA: $175,500 - $200,300 for Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject