Principal Risk Specialist
Richmond, VAFull-time$110–125K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Principal Risk Specialist works with business partners to identify and mitigate potential risks, serving as a front line of defense for Capital One’s stability and profitability. The role provides risk consulting and guidance, builds stakeholder relationships, tracks corrective actions, monitors retail deposit compliance, and leads process-level change control. The posting seeks a risk management professional with strong organizational and communication skills.
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Principal Risk Specialist
As a Principal Risk Specialist at Capital One you’ll be responsible for working with business partners to identify and mitigate potential risks to Capital One. Principal Risk Specialists at Capital One are the front line of defense to ensure our Company remains stable and profitable.
Principal Risk Specialists at Capital One are highly motivated Risk Management professionals with excellent organizational and communication skills. They have a high level of exposure across lines of business and have the opportunity to create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the Company.
Responsibilities:
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Risk Consulting to one or more Business Areas relative to their business lines and provide advice and guidance as required
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Client Management - Develop and leverage key relationships with stakeholders that enable collaboration across the enterprise
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Corrective action - Identify and track events and issues to mitigate risk to Capital One. Coordinate with applicable business areas to define/ implement remediation activities
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Monitoring and Reporting of Retail Deposit Compliance efforts
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Change Management
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Lead change control efforts at the process level to ensure impacts are appropriately assessed, documented and implemented
Basic Qualifications:
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Bachelor's Degree or military experience
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At least 3 years of Risk Management Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
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3+ years of Project Management experience leading cross functional projects and programs in Risk
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4+ years of Risk Management Experience
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PMP Certification or Masters Certificate of Project Management (CPM)
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).
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.
Richmond, VA: $109,900 - $125,400 for Principal Risk Specialist
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 (https://www.capitalonecareers.com/benefits) . 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.
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 [email protected] . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to [email protected]
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).
How this job compares
Set against the 3,867 open Risk Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110–125K/yr
- Virginia median$138–184K/yr262 salary ranges
- US median$115–200K/yr2,859 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $118K, is 28% below the Virginia median midpoint ($163K) — in the lowest quarter of Risk Management salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 299 open Risk Management jobs in Virginia and 3,867 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Capital One (this employer)150 open
- Deloitte18 open
- Amazon17 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Risk Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 3,406 postings).
- Education
- 1,622 of the 3,867 open Risk Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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