Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst

The Talent Acquisition team sits within Enterprise Human Resources and is responsible for bringing in world-class talent to Capital One. On the Talent Acquisition Assessment & Analysis team, we apply strategic thinking, advanced analytical techniques, and experimental research to optimize pre-hire talent decisions. The team is comprised of Business Analysts and Industrial/Organizational Psychologists, and partners closely with LOB Accountable Executives, recruiting leaders, and other analyst teams to support both Students & Grads and Professional talent acquisition. 

As a Sr. Business Analyst, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to solve open-ended, complex questions about how we should source, select, and convert top talent. You will work closely with HR partners and senior executives to shape talent policy, automate real-time data, and improve talent decision-making. Your day-to-day might involve:

• Developing analyses and models that help Capital One recruiters identify great talent to source

• Using data and experimentation to optimize the candidate selection process in partnership with Industrial/Organizational Psychologists

• Designing new ways to understand and measure interviewer quality

…and you will do it all in a collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning, rewards innovation, and prioritizes your development.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Strategy consultation: Partner with our clients to identify high impact opportunities to transform the candidate and associate experience, conduct analysis, and share insights that inform solutions

• Design: Drive and build key programs and analytics solutions for our partners, including measurement strategy, attribution modeling, and automated insights

• Experimentation: Partner with clients to design experiments to understand key drivers of candidate and associate behavior

• Insights & analysis: Analyze the impact of our programs and combine those insights with the latest thinking in organizational science to help our clients make data-driven, informed decisions

Successful Team Members Demonstrate Competencies In These Areas

• Purpose: You feel a deep personal connection to improving the candidate and associate experience and are motivated by applying advanced analytics in a mission-driven way

• Analytical thinking: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation. Identify opportunities for improvement and use data to make strategic and tactical recommendations

• Execution: Develop and test hypotheses, design solutions, assess operational feasibility, support implementation efforts, and develop plans and tools for monitoring outcomes

• Partnership: Collaborate effectively with other team members and clients in HR

• Business communication: Strong written and oral communication skills, including visualization skills (i.e., able to “tell the story” using data and highlight key insights in a clear and concise manner that is easily understood by stakeholders)

• Results focus: Drives for results and achieves important goals applying strong organizational skills and detail orientation, even amidst ambiguity

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any quantitative field (Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science, Engineering)

• At least 1 year of experience in analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 2+ years of experience in quantitative analysis

• 2+ years of experience in SQL querying

• 2+ years of experience in business analysis

• 2+ years 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 listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations,