Overview

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Risk and Controls Tester

About this role

As a Risk Manager in the UK Risk Office, you will be responsible for developing a strong suite of controls across the UK business. In this role, you will lean into your analytical and problem solving skills by developing and deploying innovative solutions to the business, and you will grow your influencing skills as you set the standards for the business. You will create order and sense out of complexity and uncertainty and enable confident, data-inspired decision making.

In this role, you will thrive in a cross-functional and collaborative environment that values unique perspectives, rewards innovation, and challenges the status quo. You will partner with senior business and risk office leaders, Marketing & Analytics, compliance, legal, and Operational Risk Management.

What you’ll do

• Test the design and effectiveness of the business controls
• Support the redesign and improvement of controls
• Make recommendations to various senior stakeholders across the UK business
• Manage projects to implement broadscale control enhancements
• Facilitate workshops to identify risks and controls
• Produce regular process health reporting for internal stakeholders
• Build, establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business, including 2nd Line Testing and Compliance Advisors

What we’re looking for

• Risk management experience and/or project management experience, or a desire to learn and grow your career in this field.
• An ability to self-identify improvements to improve efficiency, and then execute them
• Previous experience of working in a highly-regulated industry and/or corporate environment
• Workshop facilitation
• Great stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and collaborate with a wide range of different people
• Able to partner within and beyond the team, building productive, cross business relationships
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to remain focused and flexible in a changing environment

Where and how you’ll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham offices. We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home. You’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Flexible working arrangements are possible.

What’s in it for you

• Be rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
• Open to strong and diverse career progression, with training through Capital One University and external providers
• Immediate access to core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance, with flexible benefits such as season-ticket loans, cycle to work, and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities; Nottingham head-office includes a gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people and building diverse and inclusive teams. We want to work with top talent, whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We make our recruitment process fair and accessible and offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We partner with organisations including Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life. We have internal networks and support groups such as REACH, OutFront, Mind Your Mind, Women in Tech, and EmpowHER.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and used only for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

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Who We Are

Capital One is building a leading information-based technology company guided by collaboration, openness, and a commitment to doing the right thing. We aim to change banking for good through ingenuity, simplicity and humanity.