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Business Director - Credit Analytics

Discover Financial Services
  • McLean, VA
  • $230,400–$263,000 Per Year
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Job Description

As a Business Analysis Director in LMCRO,  you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to review and challenge the credit loss forecasts for our various lines of business that inform the Company’s quarterly allowance and annual stress testing estimates. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

General Responsibilities:

  • Leadership: May manage or develop analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One 
  • Credit Risk: Drive step-change improvements in credit forecast performance by connecting drivers of future consumer  (and commercial as a plus) credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk analytics, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis 
  • Execution: Manage the credit forecast challenge process, including forming challenge hypotheses, designing analytics to prove the hypotheses, interrogating the data and permutating the analyses to uncover the truth, and synthesizing the takeaways for leadership with influence and effective communication. Oversee multiple projects concurrently 
  • Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: Loss forecast teams, Model Developers, Model Validation team, Finance, Credit Accounting, and others to drive improvement in company’s ACL and CCAR process and outcomes 
  • Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the role’s output is based on rigorous analytic work in credit and forecasting risk management 
  • Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be able to apply strong judgement, leadership, and integrity in evaluating how to prioritize the team’s challenge efforts and how to debate conclusions with the first line team
  • Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. He/she should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results 
  • Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills 
  • Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment 
  • Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced and dynamic environment. 

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 4 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
  • At least 4 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
  • At least 2 years of experience performing people management
  • At least 2 years of experience performing project management

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering 
  • 5+ years of experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis 
  • 5+ years of experience in financial services 
  • 3+ years of experience in Consumer credit management, such as Card, Auto, or Personal Loans
  • 3+ years of experience in people management 
  • 1+ year of experience in consulting 

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

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.

McLean, VA: $230,400 - $263,000 for Business Director

Richmond, VA: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director

Riverwoods, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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.

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

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

Numbers & Facts

LocationMcLean, VA
Salary$230,400–$263,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Accountingunmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Business Analysisunmatched
  • Coachingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR)unmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Consumer Loansunmatched
  • Credit Processingunmatched
  • Credit Riskunmatched
  • Economicsunmatched
  • Employee Retentionunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
  • Financeunmatched
  • Financial Servicesunmatched
  • Financial Trend Analysisunmatched
  • Forecastingunmatched
  • Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Legalunmatched
  • Loansunmatched
  • Mathematicsunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Model Validationunmatched
  • Multitaskingunmatched
  • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
  • People Managementunmatched
  • Physical Scienceunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Project Trackingunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Qualitative Analysisunmatched
  • Quantitative Analysisunmatched
  • Risk Analysisunmatched
  • Risk Managementunmatched
  • State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
  • Statisticsunmatched
  • Strategic Analysisunmatched
  • Stress Testingunmatched
  • Talent Managementunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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