Senior Associate, Control Tester

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

This role is a Senior Associate, Control Tester within Capital One Canada's Risk Office. The primary responsibility is to conduct control testing to assess the effectiveness of control activities in accordance with company standards and policies. This involves understanding regulatory requirements, business processes, and Enterprise Risk Standards, analyzing data, executing tests (manual and automated, potentially using SQL), and communicating findings. The role requires strong critical thinking, judgment, and analytical skills, with a focus on financial consumer compliance and risk management in a regulated environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support team testing activities by providing subject matter expertise on control testing and risk management
  2. Lead or support the execution of control tests to assess the design and operating effectiveness of control activities
  3. Collaborate with business partners and review documentation to gather information to perform control testing
  4. Proactively manage testing activities and schedules to ensure that all activities and reporting are completed within expected timelines
  5. Analyze data to identify issues and trends across the Canada controls environment

Skills

Required

  • At least 3 years of financial consumer compliance monitoring experience, consumer compliance auditing, assessing processes and controls, or in assessing third parties and vendors
  • Experience in preparing and writing business documents (i.e., presentations for leadership meetings or forums, briefing memos, and reports)
  • Familiarity with applicable Canadian regulators (OSFI, OPC, FCAC) and regulations that apply to a credit card business
  • Basic data analysis and scripting experience (i.e, SQL, Python)

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Relevant certification or accreditation in Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, or other related fields
  • Working knowledge of cloud data structure (snowflake)
  • Experience creating and reviewing test scripts using SQL/Python to test full populations for key attributes
  • Working knowledge of French language
  • Strong leadership skills and capabilities
  • Evidence of strategic thinking
  • Familiarity of a credit card business, practices, and operations

What the JD emphasized

  • financial consumer compliance monitoring experience
  • consumer compliance auditing
  • assessing processes and controls
  • assessing third parties and vendors
  • regulatory requirements
  • control testing