Business Manager - Strategic Risk: Insights & Analysis

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

This role is a Business Manager focused on Strategic Risk Insights & Analysis within the financial services industry. The primary responsibilities include assessing the impact of changes in the competitive landscape and external environment on strategic objectives, developing thought leadership on banking and payments trends, leading scenario analysis for significant risk themes, and providing independent oversight and challenge of strategic risks. The role requires strong analytical, quantitative, business judgment, leadership, and executive communication skills. It is a second-line role providing independent oversight of strategic risks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assess the impact of short, medium, and longer term changes to the competitive landscape and external environment on the risk of achieving the company's strategic objectives or business model
  2. Develop and share thought leadership on the trends shaping the future of banking and payments
  3. Lead scenario analysis with Business Risk Offices and other stakeholders on significant risk themes, such as sustained erosion of interchange fee income
  4. Review and challenge: (1) strategic risk that may impact the achievement of the company's strategic imperatives or result from pursuing those objectives; (2) strategic risk from launches of new products or services; (3) underlying assumptions in long-term capital planning, liquidity stress testing, and balance sheet management from a strategic risk lens (e.g., a sustained low-interest-rate environment, payments disruption)
  5. Create executive-ready materials on strategic risk topics

Skills

Required

  • Analysis
  • Strategic thinking
  • Analytical skills
  • Quantitative orientation
  • Business judgment
  • Leadership
  • Integrity
  • Executive communication skills
  • Influencing skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Results orientation
  • Problem solving
  • Decision making
  • Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field or MBA with a quantitative concentration

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Business or quantitative field
  • Experience in analysis
  • Experience in financial services
  • Experience in consulting
  • Experience in people management

What the JD emphasized

  • quantitative field
  • quantitative orientation
  • quantitative concentration
  • quantitative field
  • quantitative field