Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise Payments
Overview
Principal Risk Specialist | Enterprise Payments
R241082
Posted 04/28/2026
Primary Address: McLean, Virginia
Responsibilities
- Risk Consulting - Provide advice and guidance to line of business leaders on risks impacting one or more areas within the Enterprise Payments Governance Office
- Client Management - Develop and leverage key relationships with Enterprise Payments and functional stakeholders to enable collaboration across the enterprise
- Issues Management - Identify and track issues and events to mitigate risk within Enterprise Payments. Coordinate with applicable business areas to define and implement remediation activities
- Governance - Enhance payments-related control and governance environment by leading process-level change control efforts to ensure impacts are thoroughly assessed, documented, and implemented, while also establishing ongoing routines to support these improvements
- Audit Management - Provide support to Enterprise Payments during audits; support in the delivery of key risk mitigation and remediation activities
Qualifications
- At least 2 years of financial services risk management experience
- At least 2 years of payments operations experience or risk management experience
- At least 2 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal business clients
- 3+ years of Project Management experience leading cross functional projects and programs
- 3+ years of financial services risk management experience
- 3+ years of payments operations experience or risk management experience
- Certification within the payments industry (e.g., AAP, APRP)
Benefits
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
- Mclean, VA: $120,800 - $137,900 for Principal Risk Specialist
Pay
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Schedule
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.