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Capital One Principal Risk Specialist 
United States, Virginia, Arlington 
787188708

22.08.2025
Principal Risk Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Risk Consulting - Provide advice and guidance to line of business leaders on risks impacting one or more areas within the Enterprise Payments Governance Office

  • Client Management - Develop and leverage key relationships with Enterprise Payments and functional stakeholders to enable collaboration across the enterprise

  • Issues Management - Identify and track issues and events to mitigate risk within Enterprise Payments. Coordinate with applicable business areas to define and implement remediation activities

  • Governance - Enhance payments-related control and governance environment by leading process-level change control efforts to ensure impacts are thoroughly assessed, documented, and implemented, while also establishing ongoing routines to support these improvements.

  • Audit Management - Provide support to Enterprise Payments during audits; support in the delivery of key risk mitigation and remediation activities

We want you if you are:

  • A communicator: You can communicate complex, often technical, ideas clearly. Maybe you’re an introvert, or maybe you’re an extrovert, but nobody around you feels out of the loop.

  • A learner: You have an appetite to learn new processes or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help.

  • Team player: You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships.

Basic Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification

  • At least 2 years of experience supporting risk management

  • At least 2 years of project management experience

  • At least 2 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal business clients

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree

  • 3+ years of Project Management experience leading cross functional projects and programs in risk

  • 3+ years of payments operations or financial services risk management experience

  • Certification within the payments industry (e.g., AAP, APRP)

McLean, VA: $117,300 - $133,900 for Principal Risk Specialist Richmond, VA: $106,700 - $121,700 for Principal Risk SpecialistThis 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.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.