Senior Director, Lead AML Advisor for Card Business

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 255,300 - 291,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Performance-based bonuses

Inclusive work culture

Job summary

A leading banking and technology firm is seeking a Senior Director, Lead AML Advisor for its Card business in New York. This role involves ensuring compliance with AML regulations and providing strategic risk management consultation. Ideal candidates will possess significant AML expertise, strong leadership and communication skills, and a proven background in financial services compliance.

Qualifications

• 10 years in legal, compliance, risk management or regulatory experience in consumer financial services.
• 7 years of people management experience.
• Operational familiarity with card products.

Responsibilities

• Provide risk management consultation to Card Executives.
• Ensure compliance with AML and regulatory risks.
• Engage with business stakeholders on key initiatives.

Skills

AML subject matter expertise

Leadership

Decision-making

Communication skills

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree or military experience

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

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Capital One is a leading banking and technology company seeking to reimagine banking. One of our key risk management priorities is to continue to transform our AML and Sanctions program to enable rigorous, nimble, and sustainable AML and Sanctions risk management, delivered through partnership between the first second and third lines of defense, tailored to Capital One’s products, services, risks, and capabilities.

The Senior Director, Lead AML Advisor for Capital One’s Card lines of business performs a key risk management leadership role to help ensure corporate initiatives and lines of business products, services, and processes comply with applicable laws and regulations. This position will report to the MVP, AML Advisory, who in turn reports to Capital One’s Chief AML Officer (CAMLO).

We are seeking a candidate with deep AML subject matter expertise, excellent leadership, decision-making, and communication skills, a team-first mentality, proven operational effectiveness, and vision to help lead Capital One’s AML program and department. The successful candidate will lead a team of dedicated AML risk managers aligned to Commercial Bank, with the goals of providing holistic end-to-end risk management, producing optimal risk management outcomes, and elevating our AML program to a position of preeminence in the field. To accomplish these objectives, it will be critical that this person possess significant experience in financial products and services and the ability to drive outcomes with business, technology, operational, and audit partners as well as external stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be a visible leader who will represent the company and its AML program with business and risk management leaders as well as external regulatory authorities. An executive presence, excellent written and verbal communication, influencing skills, and the ability to adapt and be effective in the progressive, dynamic Capital One culture are essential to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide risk management consultation to Card and its Executives on conducting risk assessments, identifying and mitigating risk, developing mitigation plans, business initiatives, and other risk management and control activities
• Provide senior management with effective, credible and grounded challenge regarding money laundering and AML regulatory risk and control management, ensuring management is making informed and appropriate risk decisions, and allocating appropriate attention and resources to risk management
• Influence senior management to drive realization and mitigation of new and emerging risks
• Act as a key liaison and engage actively with the Card business stakeholders and across AML stakeholder groups on key initiatives, projects, changes, program enhancements, prioritization, issues management and escalations
  
  

Competencies

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned risk management and compliance professional with strategic leadership skills, strong business acumen, and a proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, fast paced and highly-regulated environment. Candidates should have a passion for being a trusted advisor to the business while fulfilling compliance and risk management obligations.

Strong Business Judgment

• Strong business judgment, analytical acumen, and the ability to evaluate complex, multi-dimensional situations and risk characteristics and to formulate appropriate compliance recommendations and advice
• Proven capability to influence and build consensus among peers and senior leadership leveraging sound logic and analysis
• Proven ability to apply effective challenge, lead and influence positive change.
  
  

Communication

• Highly developed interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, as well as with external parties (such as regulators and consultants)
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience
• At least 10 years in legal, compliance, risk management or regulatory experience in consumer financial services
• At least 7 years of people management experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a financial regulator
• Operational familiarity with card products
• 10+ years of experience as a Risk Manager or Assurance within the financial services or tech industry
• Proficiency with structuring slides and presentations in order to convey risk information
• Advanced degree (Juris Doctor, Master's Degree)
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist certified (CAMS)
  
  

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new 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: $234,000 - $267,100 for Sr. Director, Compliance

New York, NY: $255,300 - $291,300 for Sr. Director, Compliance

Plano, TX: $212,800 - $242,800 for Sr. Director, Compliance

Richmond, VA: $212,800 - $242,800 for Sr. Director, Compliance

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.

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.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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