Director, Compliance Advisor

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

This role is a Director, Compliance Advisor for Capital One's Shopping function, focusing on leading second-line Compliance functions. The individual will advise senior business leaders on product/service development, oversee the compliance management program, and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory environments, including engaging with external regulators. The role requires strong business judgment, interpersonal skills, and experience in compliance, legal, risk management, or regulatory roles within financial services or related industries.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a credible authority and partner to senior business leadership, providing expert advice on business strategy, including the transformation of core operating systems.
  2. Oversee the development and execution of the CMP, ensuring all components are operating effectively to identify and mitigate risks.
  3. Manage the evolution of the compliance risk management function by challenging the adequacy of controls and facilitating comprehensive corrective actions for process breakdowns.
  4. Actively promote a culture of compliance risk management and balanced risk taking, while ensuring appropriate monitoring is in place to identify process breakdowns and facilitating comprehensive corrective action.
  5. Maintain deep subject matter expertise in relevant laws and regulations and monitor emerging consumer protection trends and regulatory changes, domestically and internationally.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience
  • At least 8 years of experience in compliance, legal, risk management, or regulatory roles within affiliated marketing, on-line retail or financial services
  • At least 5 years of experience supporting, partnering, and interacting with business clients

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree (JD, MBA, or MA) or Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) certification
  • 12+ years of experience in legal, compliance, risk management, or regulatory roles
  • 5+ years of people management experience
  • 2+ years with a domestic or international consumer protection regulator (e.g. state AGs, FTC or international equivalents)

What the JD emphasized

  • Agility, strong business judgment and the ability to evaluate complex, multi-dimensional situations to formulate appropriate recommendations to support a fast-paced, growth oriented tech business are required.
  • This position will regularly engage with senior leaders in other parts of Compliance (such as Privacy, Fair Lending, and AML), Risk Management, Audit, and Legal as well as Capital One’s external regulators (such as the CFPB, OCC, and FRB) as needed.
  • As Shopping expands internationally, the advisor will collaborate with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-managed growth, while evaluating, engaging and ensuring compliance with new legal and regulatory environments.