Senior Strategy Analyst

Capital One; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and bonus schemes

25 days’ holiday (and option to buy up

Private medical insurance

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Capital One in London/Nottingham is seeking a Senior Strategy Analyst to join the Analytics department and shape credit risk strategies. You will work across Marketing, Lending, Customer Management, Valuations, and more, delivering data-driven recommendations that influence lending decisions.

This hybrid role requires strong analytical and leadership skills, with opportunities to rotate across teams and advance your career within Capital One’s growth mindset.

Qualifications

• Analytical thinkers who enjoy solving complex data problems.
• Proficiency with SQL and Python is a plus, with training provided if needed.
• Strong mathematical and critical thinking skills.
• Open mindset towards change and personal development.
• Experience leading a project and collaborating across levels.
• A university degree or equivalent; consulting or financial services background is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Apply analytical skills to solve business challenges and build credit risk strategies.
• Optimize lending decisions to drive sustainable growth and improve customer outcomes.
• Deliver strategic recommendations and partner with product, data and tech teams.
• Track performance and draw insights from credit decision outcomes.

Skills

Analytical skills

SQL

Python

Mathematical ability

Project leadership

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

White Collar Factory (95009), United Kingdom, London, London Senior Strategy Analyst

What you’ll do

You’ll join our Analytics department in one of our core teams; Marketing Strategy, Lending Strategy, Customer Management, Valuations, Financial Support or Fraud. In this role, you’ll help us on our mission to Change Banking for Good by:

• Using your analytical skills to solve complex business challenges, finding patterns in the data and building new credit risk strategies.
• For example, you could determine who is most likely to use a credit limit increase responsibly, the optimal account terms on a price comparison website, or the best support for customers behind on payments.
• Optimising lending decisions to drive sustainable lending growth and improve customer experiences.
• Delivering strategic recommendations and bringing them to market - working with product, data and tech teams to deliver them.
• Ensuring good outcomes for customers by tracking and drawing insights from performance of credit decisions.

What you’ll need

Enjoy solving analytical challenges

Able to use technical skills to solve complex data problems. If you know how to use SQL and Python, that’s great. No worries if not, as we will help you learn

Strong mathematical and critical thinking skills

An open mindset in your approach to change and personal development

Experience leading a project, and working with people at every level to see it through

A university degree or equivalent

Experience in consulting or financial services

Where and how you'll work

This permanent position offers the flexibility of being based in either our London or Nottingham office. We prioritise collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in office three days a week, from Tuesday through to Thursday. To further foster teamwork, you'll also travel between offices twice a month. Mondays and Fridays are designated as company-wide virtual days.

What’s in it for you

We’re set up for growth – and that means in our people, as well as our business. You’ll get plenty of opportunities to learn and develop your career. We love to give our Strategy Analysts the opportunity to rotate to roles across various teams, from Marketing and Lending strategy, to Customer Management and Valuations. This is part of our winning formula for creating great future leaders so this role is well suited to high performers looking for growth opportunities.

• Pension and bonus schemes
• 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy up to 5 more)
• Private medical insurance
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced parental leave

If you’re based in Nottingham, you can use a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can sweat it out on our rooftop running track. See our full list of benefits here

What you should know about how we recruit

• We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people.
• Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do.
• We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from.
• We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say.
• That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible.
• And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us.

We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.