Principal Associate, Operations

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

This role is for a Principal Associate in Operations at Capital One Canada. The primary focus is on managing operational requirements, supporting budget and workforce planning, owning fraud queue operations, and ensuring customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance. The role involves analyzing performance, driving operational efficiency, and supporting business strategies. While the company uses AI in recruitment, this specific role is not directly involved in building or deploying AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute on operational requirements as an individual contributor.
  2. Responsible for supporting the management of Servicing OpEx through budgetary and workforce planning. This role will provide important resource recommendations based on data-driven projections.
  3. Own the end-to-end operations for Fraud queues, partnering with internal stakeholders and third party suppliers to deliver smooth and comprehensive customer experiences in these moments that matter.
  4. Provide overflow support to the Servicing Operations team as needed, partnering with third party suppliers to ensure key operational metrics (Customer Satisfaction, Average Handle Time, Resolution Rate etc) and business targets are met while maintaining a high bar for quality (QA monitoring, Regulatory compliance)
  5. Anticipate volume demands and scale workforce to effectively and efficiently handle fluctuations. Analyze call center performance history to help guide the team towards optimal shrinkage, adherence, occupancy goals and production activities.

Skills

Required

  • Operational Expertise: 3+ years experience working in a cross-functional environment, effectively managing projects or leading change initiatives. Must have a proven ability to adapt to changing priorities, independent problem-solving, and exercising a high degree of autonomy.
  • WFM Expertise: 1+ years of experience in Workforce Management (forecasting, budgeting, and costing) with a proven ability to turn complex data into actionable business strategies.
  • Analytical Problem-Solving: A strong quantitative orientation with the critical thinking skills needed to identify business challenges and provide grounded, data-driven recommendations.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Extensive experience leading high-performing teams and managing diverse stakeholders/outsourced partners to drive projects from inception to implementation.
  • Influential Communication: An assertive, proactive communicator capable of synthesizing complex ideas and influencing senior leadership to reach alignment.
  • Operational Flexibility: Ability to work independently without oversight and travel internationally 1–2 times per year as required.

Nice to have

  • Experience working in Customer Service Operations strongly preferred.
  • Experience working with BPO firms and scaling the operations of agents across multiple sites, languages and time zones.
  • Experience of using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to drive continuous improvement initiatives and experience working in an agile work environment.

What the JD emphasized

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Regulatory demands