Principal Risk Manager- Global Payments Network Risk

About the role

As a Principal Risk Manager at Capital One, you will partner with business leaders to actively shape our defense strategies, ensuring the company remains stable, resilient, and profitable. You will enjoy significant exposure across multiple lines of business, empowering you to design, champion, and implement progressive frameworks that safeguard our enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Risk Consulting: Serve as a trusted advisor to core business areas, providing tailored guidance and proactive risk mitigation strategies relative to their specific business lines.
• Stakeholder & Client Management: Cultivate, leverage, and sustain key executive relationships across the enterprise to foster deep collaboration and break down silos.
• Reporting Excellence: Own, enhance, and execute internal and external reporting processes, ensuring flawless documentation that aligns with complex regulatory and internal expectations.
• Framework Alignment: Map and adjust localized business processes to seamlessly align with overarching Capital One corporate requirements and risk frameworks.
• Governance Documentation: Author, review, and continuously refine critical governance documents, including policies, standards, procedures, and operational guidelines.
• Tool & Method Development: Design and optimize risk management processes, tools, templates, and job aids. Craft and deliver high-impact presentations to train and guide teams on risk methodology usage.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with specialized teams across the enterprise—including Operational Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, Business Risk Offices, Information Technology, Basel Program, Internal Audit, and Regulatory Relations—to achieve unified risk objectives.

Qualifications

The basic qualifications for this role include a Bachelor's Degree or military experience, at least 1 year of Financial Services Risk Management experience, and at least 2 years of Project Management experience, as well as at least 3 years of experience supporting, partnering, and interacting with internal business clients.

Preferred qualifications include at least 3 years of Project Management experience leading cross-functional projects and programs within a Risk function, and a PMP Certification or Masters Certificate of Project Management (CPM).

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are as follows: McLean, VA: $120,800 - $137,900, New York, NY: $131,800 - $150,500, Richmond, VA: $109,900 - $125,400, Riverwoods, IL: $109,900 - $125,400.

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.