Capital One · 23 hours ago
Principal Risk Specilist
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $125K/yr
4+ years expCapital One is a financial services company seeking a Principal Risk Specialist. The role involves performing business compliance and operational risk and control activities, working with the business on second-line engagements, and evaluating current operations to identify areas for enhancements.
Financial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Provides education and monitors the business on requirements of company policies and standards related to risk and control ownership
Works with the business and the second line of defense teams on engagements testing the business’s risks and controls
Works with the business and the enterprise Issues Management team on logging and remediating identified issues
Identifies and implements effective controls to manage operational, financial, and compliance risks
Maintains an accurate library of risks and controls. Performs control design reviews and compliance risk assessments
Monitors the risk and control environment for weaknesses and identifies solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of controls
Assists in executing control testing plans
Leads the completion of projects and develops, implements, and administers control standardization and workflow solutions
Works as a liaison between PULSE and partners such as Operational Risk, Compliance Advisory, Internal Audit and Issues Management
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance or Law
4+ years of experience in Financial Services, Operational and Regulatory Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit Operations or Internal Controls
Preferred
6+ years of experience in Financial Services, Compliance, Internal Audit Operations, Internal Controls, Operational and Regulatory risk
Payments/Financial industry experience
Excellent presentation skills
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
Justin Burch
Senior Vice President
Recent News
2026-02-03
2026-01-25
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