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Discover Financial

Lead Risk Specialist

McLean, VA, USA · Part-time

No sponsorship$138k-$158kDetected 16 days ago
Project ManagementAuditingCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingInternal Audit

About the role

  • The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.

Responsibilities

  • Audit-Ready Operations: Foster a culture of proactive risk awareness, helping manage horizontal routines to ensure the business is continuously audit-ready.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner and collaborate across multiple organizations-including 1st and 2nd lines of defense, Network Risk, Compliance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, and Regulatory Relations-to navigate program changes and achieve shared objectives.
  • Risk Assessment Execution: Support the development and implementation of robust risk assessment strategies that identify operational vulnerabilities, drive efficiencies, and focus on automated control solutions.
  • Change Enablement: Coach and guide cross-functional business partners through operational changes using a thoughtful, people-first approach.
  • Governance & Reporting: Help establish and manage key governance routines and risk reporting for the Global Payment Network.
  • Framework & Documentation Lifecycle: Understand, document, and analyze current-state capabilities against risk methods.
  • Author, review, and refine critical governance documents, including policies, standards, procedures, tools, and presentations that enhance framework usage.
  • Foster a culture of proactive risk awareness, helping manage horizontal routines to ensure the business is continuously audit-ready.
  • Partner and collaborate across multiple organizations-including 1st and 2nd lines of defense, Network Risk, Compliance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, and Regulatory Relations-to navigate program changes and achieve shared objectives.
  • Support the development and implementation of robust risk assessment strategies that identify operational vulnerabilities, drive efficiencies, and focus on automated control solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree or military experience
  • At least 2 years of Financial Services Risk Management experience
  • At least 3 years of Project Management or Process Management experience
  • At least 3 years of experience supporting, partnering, and interacting with internal business clients
  • At least 2 years of Compliance, Audit, or first/second line Risk Management experience
  • All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Nice to have

  • At least 5 years of Project Management experience leading cross-functional projects and programs within a Risk function
  • At least 5 years of Financial Services Risk Management experience
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or Masters Certificate of Project Management (CPM)
  • At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
  • Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
  • Chicago, IL: $138,100 - $157,700 for Risk Manager
  • McLean, VA: $151,900 - $173,400 for Risk Manager
  • Richmond, VA: $138,100 - $157,700 for Risk Manager

Skills

  • Lead Risk Specialist

Compensation

  • The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.

Benefits

  • This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
  • Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
  • Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position
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