Principal Associate, Risk Consultant

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

This role is a Principal Associate, Risk Consultant at Capital One Canada, focusing on supporting and improving risk management processes within the Strategic Risk Defense (SRD) Team. The role involves guiding business through regulatory changes, conducting risk assessments, collaborating with various risk and compliance experts, and building tools to facilitate risk management. It requires experience in heavily regulated industries and cross-functional environments. The role is not directly AI/ML development but operates within a fintech domain that may use AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supports risk assessments to ensure they meet enterprise needs for consistency while meeting our business partners’ needs for an approach that addresses their unique processes, products and tech
  2. Develops sustainable Risk Processes, which put a premium on the time of business partners by to minimizing their effort while maximizing the value they get
  3. Collaborates with second line Risk (e.g. ERM, ORM, Compliance/AML), Audit, Legal, and LOB Risk partners to support assessments and create leading-edge solutions
  4. Draws linkages to other business units and leverages a strong knowledge of precedent within assessments
  5. Be a trusted risk advisor to executives and senior leaders, all of whom value potentially dissenting opinions and organized, clear, and efficient processes

Skills

Required

  • risk management
  • project management
  • stakeholder management
  • cross-functional collaboration

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • CPA designation
  • certification in risk management
  • PMP certification
  • knowledge of industry frameworks (e.g ISO 31000 and/or COSO)

What the JD emphasized

  • heavily regulated industry
  • risk management
  • cross-functional environment