Director, Finance (fp&a)- HR and Corporate Overhead

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +1

Seeking a Director of Finance (FP&A) to lead a team supporting Capital One's Human Resources and Corporate Overhead functions. Responsibilities include budgeting, financial analysis, identifying business issues and opportunities, and communicating insights to senior leadership. The role requires strong customer focus, partnering abilities, problem-solving, strategic thinking, executive communication, project management, and influencing skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide reporting, analysis, and forecasting to facilitate strategic decision making and to track performance to operating goals and imperatives
  2. Assess business opportunities and risks with an orientation to long-term value creation and delivering appropriate financial performance
  3. Achieve a deep understanding of the goals and imperatives of the Staff and Enterprise Services organizations with the context of the company's overarching goals and imperatives; identify risks, opportunities and drive collaboration to achieve results
  4. Communicate effectively at the highest levels of the organization, articulate key messages clearly, and respond both to questions and issues knowledgeably and with confidence
  5. Management of a cross-functional team with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to accomplish a common goal

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or other quantitative discipline, or military experience
  • Ability to build and manage robust financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
  • Ability to balance analytics and judgment, think beyond department objectives and influence corporate decision making
  • Be a strategic thought partner and advisor with senior business leaders
  • Develop and deliver insightful and influential senior management presentations
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage highly matrixed cross functional teams
  • Proven leader with the ability to drive results on with large scale deliverables
  • Be a cultural beacon and attractor/developer of top talent
  • Challenge the status-quo and create well-managed sustainable processes

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Finance
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) license or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license
  • 8+ years’ experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
  • 5+ years’ experience managing a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function
  • 4+ years of people management experience including both direct & indirect reports

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 7 years of experience in Finance, Business Analytics, Accounting, Strategy Consulting, or a combination
  • at least 4 years’ experience managing a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function
  • at least 3 years of people management experience