Sr. Business Analyst - Compliance

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to apply strategic analysis across Compliance, using data to empower testing and improve customer experience.

You will partner with senior leaders across Technology, Product, Risk and Legal to ensure our products remain compliant and customer-centric, with opportunities to influence policy and process. This role rewards analytical rigor and leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration.
• 2+ years of professional experience performing analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business challenges and opportunities; provide data-driven recommendations.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Technology, Product, Risk and Legal to drive initiatives.
• Model analytics to support Compliance product development and testing.
• Lead implementation efforts and design monitoring plans.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Decision making

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree or MBA with quantitative concentration

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Sr. Business Analyst - Compliance

As a Senior Business Analyst at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will team with world‑class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. 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.

The Role

This Sr. Business Analyst will perform highly impactful strategic and analytical work supporting Compliance organizations across Capital One. In this mission‑critical role, you will use data to empower compliance testing, drive enterprise complaint program, and improve customer experience. By partnering closely with leaders across the organization (senior business and compliance leaders, Technology, Product, Risk office, Legal, and Risk Management), you will ensure our products remain innovative, compliant, and customer‑centric.

General Responsibilities

• Analysis: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
• Product: Perform modeling/analytics to assist internal Compliance product build
• Execution: Involve problem frame‑works, develop hypotheses, test and analysis, solution development, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan
• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: senior business and compliance leaders, Technology, Product, Risk office, Legal, and Risk Management and others

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 business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
• Strong 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, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment.
• Previous consulting experience is a plus

Basic Qualifications

• At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date: A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building
• 1+ years of experience in SQL querying and Python programming
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis
• 1+ years of experience in consulting

Salary and Incentives

• McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 for Sr. Business Analyst
• Plano, TX: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Business Analyst
• Richmond, VA: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Business Analyst

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.

Benefits

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.

Eligibility

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

No Agencies

No agencies please.

Equal Opportunity

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Drug‑Free Workplace

Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace.

Criminal History

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.

Company Culture

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.