Senior Associate, Business Analysis

Senior Associate, Business Analysis

At Capital One data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.

Today, we are a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand all in one impacting over 65 million customer accounts. Still founder-led by Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank, we dare to dream, disrupt, and deliver a better way for our customers, the financial industry and for each other.

As a Senior Associate at Capital One, you will apply your analytical skills to major company challenges. Youll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact how the company manages compliance and risk. 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.

Role Description

General responsibilities include but are limited to:

• Bridge business context with data-driven insights by partnering with cross-functional teams (business, data science, engineering, product) to define problems and shape analytical approaches.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear analytical questions, use cases, and structured solution approaches.
• Ensure models and analyses are grounded in real-world business context; validate outputs against expected behavior and refine hypotheses accordingly.
• Interpret and translate complex analytical outputs into clear, actionable insights and recommendations that inform business strategy.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, through structured presentations and storytelling.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand processes, identify gaps, and uncover opportunities to improve decision-making and policies.
• Support product adoption by helping users understand, trust, and act on analytical outputs.
• Act as a liaison between business users and the product team; gather feedback and drive continuous improvement in solutions and workflows.
• 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.

The ideal candidate is

• Inquisitive: You thrive on solving big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You re not afraid to share a new idea.
• Technical: You re comfortable developing complex analytical solutions. You have hands-on experience conducting business analyses using open-source tools.
• Innovative: You continually are on the lookout for novel approaches, solutions and emerging technologies to solve business problems. You stay current on regulatory changes, state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to adapt to them.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in statistics, math, engineering, economics, econometrics, financial engineering, finance, or operations research with a quantitative focus.
• At least 2 years of experience in data analysis or business analysis.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in financial services, technology, or other highly regulated industries.
• 2+ years of experience in R or Python for large scale data analysis.
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficiency in key econometric and statistical techniques (such as bivariate assessments, hypothesis testing, regression modeling, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in Fraud or Anti-money Laundering domain.

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