Director, Public-Private Partnerships Investigations

Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Director, Public-Private Partnerships Investigations

The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Group is a core risk function within Capital One’s Corporate Compliance Department. This Group serves as a second line of defense and operates certain first line of defense controls for Capital One’s Lines of Business. In this role, you will work within Capital One’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on the new Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Investigations team. 

Among other things, you will: 

• Lead and build a team that will investigate the outputs from the new public-private partnership investigations team as part of Capital One's new PPP Investigations team.  

• Lead and engage with various stakeholders at other peer banks to share information through the 314(b) process to ensure successful complicated financial crime related investigations. 

• Work and collaborate with AML’s Modeling Analytics and Data Insights team to obtain the data necessary for these reviews. 

• Hire, train and manage a team and supervise that team member’s day to day reviews. 

• Effective liaise, engage, and communicate with AML advisory and business stakeholders when control gaps are identified and/or refer potential work to the appropriate stakeholders. 

• Maintain knowledge of financial industry laws and regulations and provide regulatory expertise in consulting with a diverse group of business leaders. 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing a new function, designing processes and procedures, ensuring successful integration with existing teams and functions, and ensuring excellent relationships with stakeholders, especially inside and outside the bank, as well as within all areas of the FIU, the wider AML, Compliance & Ethics, and Risk teams.  

• Brief, influence and guide business leaders in the execution of their decisions and ensure that business stakeholders understand potential control risk and gaps identified.

• Leads and participates in conducting a preeminent PPP investigations and reports.  

Our ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:

• Experience in a financial crime compliance role, preferably within financial services with a sound knowledge control gaps and financial crime typologies and financial services data.

• Experience in leading PPP and proactive investigations, building a function doing the same, influencing executive leaders, and resolving highly complex business problems through critical thinking.

• Experience effectively liaise, build and maintain excellent, credible relationships with relevant government agencies and peer financial institutions. 

• Experience providing leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an inclusive environment that encourages associate participation, teamwork, and communication.

• Ability to manage projects and conflicting deadlines. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer focus mind-set.  Significant experience briefing senior stakeholders succinctly but effectively under potentially stressful deadlines.   

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or military experience. 

• At least 10 years of experience in financial crime compliance or financial crime risk in the public sector.

• At least 10 years of people management experience. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration 

• Certified Risk Professional, or Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager certification, or its equivalent

• 15+ years of experience in compliance management, or financial crime related roles, either in the private or public sector

• 12+ years of people management experience 

• 5+ years of experience in complex, PPP investigations, or their equivalent. 

• Experience working in government, with government in PPP investigations or other types of public-private initiatives. 

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $202,400 - $231,000 for Direc