Principal Risk Specialist

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Houston, TX +3

This role focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating network-specific operational and regulatory risks within a financial institution. It involves risk consulting, client management, coordinating remediation activities, and monitoring compliance efforts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Risk Consulting to one or more Business Areas relative to their business lines and provide advice and guidance as required
  2. Client Management - Develop and leverage key relationships with stakeholders that enable collaboration across the enterprise
  3. Coordinate with the applicable risk office and second line of defense to define/ implement remediation activities.
  4. Monitoring and Reporting of Retail Deposit Compliance efforts
  5. Lead change control efforts at the process level to ensure impacts are appropriately assessed, documented and implemented

Skills

Required

  • Financial Services Risk Management
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Regulatory Compliance

Nice to have

  • PMP Certification
  • Masters Certificate of Project Management (CPM)
  • Cross-functional project leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • Financial Services Risk Management Experience
  • Project Management experience