Principal Associate, Risk Management

Capital One National Association; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Principal Associate in Risk Management in Bengaluru to drive month-end risk reporting, policy governance, and enterprise risk alignment. You will lead risk and assurance activities, coordinate with US and India teams, and build scalable reporting frameworks.

The role requires strong analytical skills, Six Sigma experience, and the ability to influence partners across organization levels while delivering reliable risk insights in a dynamic, agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years in risk domain.
• 5+ years in enterprise risk management.
• Experience in process automation and reporting.
• Ability to coordinate across teams and communicate with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead India's Risk Management team activities to ensure timely risk reporting.
• Govern PSPs: policies, standards, procedures.
• Align India processes with Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Manage incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Prepare assurance and risk reports for LT and BRO.

Skills

Risk management

Data analysis

Process improvement

Stakeholder management

Six Sigma

Policy documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA in Finance

Job description

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Capital One - Principal Associate, Risk Management

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.

At Capital One India, we are at the cutting edge of solving fundamental business problems using advanced data methodologies, statistics, and machine learning algorithms. We analyze data to derive valuable business insights, make decisions, and develop innovative and patentable products.

As a Principal Associate, you will have dynamic responsibilities associated with Capital One India’s Risk Management team, helping to ensure a timely and accurate month-end risk reporting, in addition to managing Policy documents and in-house Six-Sigma based framework - forming an integral part of the job.

We are looking for a Principal Associate to handle the Risk Management activities with a demonstrated ability to work well in teams, develop new ideas, and take ownership of the initiatives. Would you like to work in a collaborative environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded, all the while having a work-life balance? If so, opportunity for professional and personal fulfillment in a dynamic, progressive organization awaits you at Capital One! We are seeking a dedicated and disciplined process professional with expertise in process improvement and a proven track record of optimizing company processes to achieve resource and and time savings. This individual must possess strong analytical skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the adaptability required for a dynamic agile environment, while also demonstrating the ability to effectively communicate and influence partners across all organizational levels and functions.

Responsibilities

Manage the India Risk Management team consisting of Risk and Assurance activities to ensure

• Timely completion of all activities
• Adequate cross training and backup
• Completion of asks from India Leadership
• Strategic planning for the Risk Management function

PSP - Governance (Policies, Standards & Procedures)

• Review and ensure compliance with the Enterprise Policy Program standard
• Report on creation of new documents, renewals/ expiry of existing documents and Standard Adherence Assessment conducted by CPO (Corporate Policy Office)
• Maintain repository of India wide documents
• Influence updates to policies, standards to enhance risk management activities
• Maintain Risk Management PSPs and SOPs and draft new documents as the team expands the scope of work

Review and Alignment with Enterprise Risk Management Framework

• Conduct a gap analysis of India Risk Management processes against Enterprise Policies, Standards, and Procedures (PSPs)
• Propose and execute a plan to align India processes with Enterprise requirements, focusing on:
• Automation and standardization of risk reports
• Adoption of enterprise risk management tools
• Development and implementation of risks, controls, and mitigation plans as necessary
• Project manage and coordinate execution efforts with various internal teams (e.g., DataLabs) and US Business Risk Office (BRO) stakeholders

Issue and Incident Management

• Develop and implement incident response plans aligned with Enterprise practices
• Lead cross-functional teams during an incident to rapidly detect, contain, and resolve issues while managing stakeholder communication
• Facilitate post-incident root cause analysis and "lessons learned" sessions to drive continuous improvement
• Prioritize issues based on business impact and ensure robust documentation for compliance and reporting
• Minimize disruption, strengthen controls, and integrate incident insights back into the broader enterprise risk management framework
• Collaborate closely with Cyber ISO to ensure CERT-In incidents are reported in MBRs and internal risk reports as and when required

Corporate Insurance

• Renew and maintain following Insurance Policies
• Worker’s Compensation (WC)
• Property Insurance
• Directors and Officers Liability (D&O)
• Commercial General Liability (CGL)
• Coordinate with Insurance Broker and facilitate claims

Physical Records

• Facilitate storage and transport of physical records via third party
• Maintain Inventory Index to track the data and retention requirements by Law

Internal Audit

• Finalize the vendor to conduct annual Internal Audit
• Draft the scope and IA calendar
• Coordinate with Internal teams and facilitate the IA
• Assist in timely closure of observations/ recommendations
• Report the status and details of observations to LT

Prepare the Risk reports at India site level risk in the Enterprise Risk Management framework including key topics like

• Phishing drill report to Leadership Team (LT)
• Bi-annual Official Records (non-HR GDrive) certification and reporting to Risk Head
• Quarterly Sensitive Data Assessment and reporting to Risk Head
• Monthly Hard Disk Drive (HDD) remediation report to LT
• Monthly Iron Mountain document storage to File manages, respective LTs
• Access management (NPI) reporting to LT

Constantly work with US Risk Office and Cyber teams to expand the scope of Risk Reporting

Prepare Assurance Reports including

• Monthly Controls execution report to owners & relevant LT
• Coordinate with Capital One US teams and India support teams to report status on:
• IA TPM
• ABAC
• BCP testing
• Standard Adherence Assessment
• Statutory Audit

Work closely with LT to maintain artefacts (like Vision, Roadmap, etc) in the internal portal for SLQ2CQ (Capital One internal Lean - Six Sigma based framework)

Present the Risk and Assurance reports to LT in the following forums:

• Monthly Business Review (MBR) - chaired by India head, US Risk Office head and US Legal head
• Quarterly Risk, Legal & Tech Committee - chaired by India head, US Risk Office head, US Legal head and US Tech Head

Ideate and implement Risk Management framework across Risk Taxonomy and refresh framework based on evolving business needs/ risks

Partner with other Risk Management functions across the company and cross functional teams to conduct Process Level Assessments

Maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of commitment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 7 years of experience in Risk domain
• At least 5 years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management
• At least 4 years experience in Enterprise Risk Management framework and implementation
• At least 4 years experience in Three Lines of Defense framework
• At least 4 years experience in risk reporting
• At least 4 years experience in Automation & standardization of reports
• At least 4 years experience in Process Mapping & Optimization

Preferred Qualifications

• Risk management experience
• Experience in Banking or consulting
• MBA in Finance
• Financial Risk Manager (FRM) from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
• Professional Risk Manager (PRM) from PRMIA

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