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Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Sr Business Analyst, Commercial Bank
About Capital One’s Commercial Bank:
In late 2015, Capital One’s Commercial Banking division vaulted into the top 10 list of national commercial banks after a multi-year strategic investment in transforming Commercial from a collection of small local banks into a strong regional player. Our transformation included a complete overhaul of supporting technology systems, building up a core data capability, standardizing processes, and proving out the value of Capital One strategic analytics applied within a Commercial business context. Having established credible scale in this industry, Capital One leadership began considering the next big step. Part of that answer was to invest in building dedicated business line and product analytics teams to provide strategic guidance, creating capabilities that drive sustainable competitive advantage, and significantly enhance risk management practices.

Summary:
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.

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 new product and pricing strategies for various lending products

Marketing: Support direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel. Help build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go to market strategies

Credit Risk: Support step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis

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: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability

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:

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 1 year of experience in analysis

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 market research

1+ years of experience in SQL querying

2+ years of experience in business analysis

1+ years of experience in consulting

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.