Business Director - Credit Analytics

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +2

This role is a Business Director focused on Credit Analytics within Capital One. The primary responsibilities involve reviewing and challenging credit loss forecasts, informing the company's allowance and stress testing estimates. The role requires strong leadership, strategic and analytical skills, credit risk expertise, and the ability to manage projects and collaborate with various internal teams like Model Developers and Finance. While the role involves quantitative and qualitative analysis, it does not directly involve building or researching AI/ML models, but rather using analytical insights to inform business decisions in a regulated financial environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive step-change improvements in credit forecast performance by connecting drivers of future consumer (and commercial as a plus) credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk analytics, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis
  2. Manage the credit forecast challenge process, including forming challenge hypotheses, designing analytics to prove the hypotheses, interrogating the data and permutating the analyses to uncover the truth, and synthesizing the takeaways for leadership with influence and effective communication.
  3. Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: Loss forecast teams, Model Developers, Model Validation team, Finance, Credit Accounting, and others to drive improvement in company’s ACL and CCAR process and outcomes
  4. A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the role’s output is based on rigorous analytic work in credit and forecasting risk management
  5. Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • quantitative analysis
  • qualitative analysis
  • people management
  • project management

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Business or quantitative field
  • financial services experience
  • Consumer credit management
  • consulting experience

What the JD emphasized

  • rigorous monitoring and analysis
  • rigorous analytic work