Sr. Risk Manager for Enterprise Program Governance

Overview

Capital One’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Team has responsibility for helping the overall organization identify, manage, and mitigate key risks that may keep the company from achieving its strategic objectives. ERM is currently seeking a Senior (Sr) Risk Manager who will be responsible for managing implementation and enhancement projects for a diverse set of initiatives, with a broad range of complexity and scale.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead Standard Adherence activities for large programs - document outputs, and communicate results with program leaders and stakeholders
• Perform effective challenge over large programs with strong critical thinking and negotiation skills, challenging assumptions about project health and timelines
• Lead program Governance Evaluations - document outputs and communicate results with program leaders and stakeholders
• Lead documentation requests with audit and/or external regulators on matters related to change governance
• Identify the root causes of recurring project failures across the enterprise to determine if issues come from poor planning, lack of resources, or weak governance
• Streamline and modernize the change governance framework by leveraging automation and AI tools to reduce administrative burden and speed up risk identification
• Possess cross-functional partnerships in larger efforts, to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
• Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments
• Drive continuous improvements to the ERM program to increase operational efficiency, reduce execution risk, and make board reporting more impactful
• Bring clarity to ambiguous situations, analyze incomplete project data, isolate the true risk factors, and recommend clear next steps

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 4 years of process management, risk management, audit or change management experience
• At least 3 years of project management experience
• At least 3 years of experience in modernizing governance frameworks, including streamlining workflows and adopting digital tools or AI to improve risk oversight.
• At least 2 years of experience using project management tools (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID), Waterfall, Agile)
• At least 2 years of experience using Google or Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Scrum Master certification, Lean Six Sigma certification or Internal Auditor certification
• 2+ years of experience in the financial industry
• 2+ years of experience in consulting industry

Pay

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. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.