Senior Associate, Financial Analyst - Card External Planning & Analysis

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Associate, Financial Analyst within Card External Planning & Analysis in McLean, VA. You will lead analytical efforts to benchmark Card performance, analyze credit trends, and support executive decision-making with data-driven insights.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, storytelling, and collaboration with Card partners to drive growth and profitability. Strong FP&A background and SQL/Python skills are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience required.
• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis or financial modeling.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership with senior leaders to tackle high-visibility challenges.
• Present learnings, opportunities, and solutions to senior management with clear storytelling.
• Identify business challenges and propose data-driven improvements and recommendations.
• Collaborate with Card teams across tech, credit, and operations to address issues.
• Mentor and develop peer analysts into storytellers and business leaders.

Skills

Strategic orientation

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Results oriented

Technical/data skills

Financial background

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

MBA

CFA/CPA/CFM

Tools

SQL

Python

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Associate, Financial Analyst - Card External Planning & Analysis

We’re seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to act as a thought-leader, analytical partner, and insight creator within our Card External Planning & Analysis team. Through innovation and analytical rigor, our team tackles high-leverage problems facing Card’s leaders and drives insights that propel Capital One’s Card business forward. Within this team, our analytical efforts are centralized around three primary pillars: Analysis and benchmarking of the Credit Card industry against our own Card performance through various volume and financial growth metrics, customer segmentations, and access to public/private data Exploring and translating the various macroeconomic / industry trends driving consumer preferences into tangible and measurable headwinds and tailwinds on our Card business Driving innovation and insights through centralized portfolio analytics, deep-dives into Consumer Portfolio health, and strategic requests supporting high-impact presentations to Card leaders, the President of Card, and our Board of directors. You will partner heavily with various teams across Card (i.e. Card Finance, Business Lines, Corporate Strategy, CRM, etc.) to solve important business problems that will ultimately drive value to the company. You will be encouraged to drive insights, take risks, and seek out new responsibilities to create leverage for the team. We work to drive efficiencies, collaboration, innovation and outsized value across the Card organization through the various lenses we maintain as hybrid analysts (BA, DA, FA, Strategy, etc.) in our analysis and storytelling. We hire creative, authentic team players that are humble and naturally curious, who know how to move quickly, but also maintain an incredibly high bar for excellence. On this team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow and develop your understanding of our Card business through analysis and access to data that you likely wouldn’t see in other financial analyst roles. Because we partner heavily with senior Card leaders to solve complex problems, strong influence, strategic analytical thinking and storytelling skills are a must. For candidates that seek to be “strong generalists” and build a career in Card, our team can be a powerful launch pad, providing a wide lens of visibility and opportunities to tackle different challenges facing Card. We aim to provide a pathway for top talent to pivot into rewarding careers within Capital One.

Key Responsibilities for the role:

• Strategic leadership: Partner with senior leaders to address high-leverage, high-visibility challenges throughout our Card business. Develop insights that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands.
• Storytelling: Present to senior management on learnings, opportunities, and proposed solutions. Leverage analytical storytelling skills to influence at the highest levels.
• Analysis: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations.
• Partnership: Work closely with partners across Card to understand and address challenges across tech, credit, operations, and more.
• Teamwork: Invest in the development of peer analysts in your org, helping them to develop as storytellers, analysts, and business leaders.

Skillsets we’re looking for:

• Strategic & analytic orientation: A strong 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 business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management.
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: This individual should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business. Influence: 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.
• Strong technical and data skills: A good understanding of our Card database infrastructure and prior coding background (i.e. SQL, etc.)
• Strong Financial background: Prior experience in FP&A roles is preferable. Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Prior Card knowledge and experience is a plus.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 3 years of experience in financial analysis, financial modeling, or a combination

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Accounting, Finance, or Economics
• Certified Treasury Professional or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) license or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or CFM
• 2+ years of experience in both financial analysis and financial modeling
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• 2+ years of experience partnering with senior leaders and internal stakeholders
• 1+ years of experience using SQL, Python, or a combination
• 1+ years of experience in financial services, banking or technology industries

Salary & Benefits

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: $96,500 - $110,100 for Sr. Financial Analyst 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 the Capital One Careers website. 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.

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, Article23-A of the New York Correction Law; SanFrancisco, California Police Code Article49, Sections 4901‑4920; NewYork 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.

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. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.