Senior Business Analyst - Business Analysis for Talent Acquisition

About the role

We are a team of Business Analysts that supports the Talent Acquisition organization, partnering closely with Line of Business Accountable Executives, recruiting leaders, and other analyst teams to bring in world-class talent through both our Students & Grads and Professional recruiting channels. We apply strategic thinking, advanced analytical techniques, and experimental research to optimize recruiting and selection outcomes for quality and efficiency. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to solve open-ended, complex questions. You will work closely with partner teams to conduct analyses, automate real-time data, and improve decision-making. Your day-to-day might involve:

• Developing analyses and models that help Capital One recruiters and interviewers identify great talent to source and advance
• Collaborating with business leaders, recruiters, and Data Analysts to design and implement data products to support our Talent Acquisition processes
• Designing new ways to measure and improve interviewer engagement and effectiveness

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Responsibilities

• Insights Generation: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make data-driven strategic or tactical recommendations
• Strategy Consultation: Partner with our clients to identify high impact opportunities to transform the candidate and associate experience, conduct analysis, and share insights that inform solutions
• Problem Solving, from Ideation through Execution & Experimentation: Scope problems, develop hypotheses, test and analyze, drive insights, develop solutions, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan
• Quantitative Analysis and Insight Generation: Leverage coding languages such as SQL and Python and AI tools such as Claude Code to understand and analyze historical drivers of performance and make tailored recommendations for improvements
• Design: Drive and build key data products, analytics solutions, and experiments for our partners, including requirements gathering, measurement strategy, attribution modeling, and automated insights
• Business Communication: Written and oral communication to business and HR leaders, using data to tell the story and strategically influencing to drive alignment
• Partnership: Collaborate effectively with other team members and clients in HR and the business to drive impact

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• 1+ years of experience in SQL querying
• 2+ years of experience in statistical analyses
• 1+ years of experience in consulting
• 1+ years of experience presenting to cross-functional stakeholders
• 1+ years of experience defining business requirements

Pay

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