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Strategic Risk Manager - Insights & Analysis

Location: McLean, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia
Job ID R228241 Updated date 10/15/2025
Strategic Risk Manager - Insights & Analysis

We are seeking a Strategic Risk Insights & Analysis Manager to join the Strategic Risk team. This is a high visibility role that offers direct engagement with executive leadership to influence risk management decisions to manage the most significant strategic risks facing the organization.

This second-line role resides at the intersection of risk management and strategy to provide independent oversight, review, and challenge of strategic risks that may impact the achievement of the company's strategic objectives or core business model. The Manager will focus on ensuring that risk from competitive disruption, the changing external landscape, evolving regulations or the company's own strategic choices are appropriately considered in decision-making and risk management routines. 

Responsibilities

  • Analysis: Assess the impact of short, medium, and longer term changes to the competitive landscape and external environment on the risk of achieving the company's strategic objectives or business model

  • Thought Leadership: Develop and share thought leadership on the trends shaping the future of banking and payments

  • Scenario Analysis: Lead scenario analysis with Business Risk Offices and other stakeholders on significant risk themes, such as sustained erosion of interchange fee income

  • Oversight: Review and challenge: (1) strategic risk that may impact the achievement of the company's strategic imperatives or result from pursuing those objectives; (2) strategic risk from launches of new products or services; (3) underlying assumptions in long-term capital planning, liquidity stress testing, and balance sheet management from a strategic risk lens (e.g., a sustained low-interest-rate environment, payments disruption)

  • Teamwork: Partner with stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes

  • Reporting: Create executive-ready materials on strategic risk topics


 

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

  • At least 5 years of Corporate Strategy, Financial Services Consulting or Enterprise Risk Management experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strategy or Risk management experience in a large financial services organization or management consultancy

  • Deep knowledge of the financial services and payments industry

  • Clear communicator

  • Naturally inquisitive with a passion for learning

  • Comfortable operating in gray space 

  • Collaborative, team player with the ability to navigate a complex organization and influence outcomes

  • Able to blend strategic and tactical thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning

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: $146,100 - $166,700 for Risk Manager


 

Richmond, VA: $132,800 - $151,600 for Risk Manager


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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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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. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.