Capital One Financial Corporation

Senior Associate, Risk Specialist – eComm Surveillance Population Management

Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
  • 2+ years in operations, process management, data reconciliation, or compliance onboarding workflows
  • 2+ years using G-Suite or Microsoft Office for data tasks
  • 3+ years in compliance operations, data integrity, or HR operations preferred
  • Familiarity with financial regulatory frameworks
  • Experience with compliance surveillance tools and user permissions management

Responsibilities

  • Maintain an up-to-date inventory of monitored associates to ensure compliance coverage
  • Collaborate with teams to manage onboarding and offboarding processes for monitored associates
  • Verify system access and data configuration for new hires from day one
  • Execute regular data reconciliation processes to identify discrepancies
  • Act as a liaison for internal stakeholders regarding population and data issues
  • Work with leadership to innovate and improve workflow automation
  • Identify and escalate potential compliance risks or operational gaps

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Financial wellness programs
  • Opportunities for performance-based incentives
  • Inclusive workplace initiatives
  • Support for work-life balance through flexible schedules
Full Job Description
Senior Associate, Risk Specialist – eComm Surveillance Population Management


In this role, you will focus heavily on population management, onboarding/offboarding workflows, and data reconciliation. Your mission is to ensure all monitored associates specifically within our Broker-Dealer and Swap Dealer business lines are accurately identified, tracked, and correctly provisioned within our surveillance systems.

If you thrive on data integrity, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced regulatory environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities
  • Population Management & Governance: Maintain the definitive, golden-source inventory of the monitored employee population. Actively track internal transfers, role changes, and status updates to guarantee continuous regulatory compliance coverage.

  • Onboarding & Offboarding Orchestration: Partner seamlessly with key stakeholder teams (including Licensing & Registration, Swap Dealer/Broker Dealer Advisory,Tech and Mobility) to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of monitored associates, ensuring surveillance tracking initiates and terminates precisely on schedule.

  • System Provisioning & Access Verification: Validate that newly onboarded associates are flawlessly configured across all compliance surveillance tools, databases, and communication channels from day one.

  • Data Reconciliation: Design and execute rigorous daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliation processes between internal data feeds and surveillance system rosters to proactively identify, investigate, and remediate any gaps or anomalies.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal business partners regarding population scoping, access issues, and roster data discrepancies.

  • Process Innovation: Collaborate with leadership and technical teams to streamline workflow pipelines, automate manual reconciliation tasks, and refine operational procedures.

  • Incident Escalation: Promptly identify and flag operational gaps, technical setup failures, or potential compliance risks regarding population tracking to team leadership for immediate review.

The Ideal Candidate Will Demonstrate:
  • Strong Analytical & Data Reconciliation Skills: Proven ability to analyze large employee datasets, spot systemic discrepancies, and resolve complex roster anomalies.

  • Advanced Data Tool Proficiency: High comfort level with G-Suite and Microsoft Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs, pivot tables, data cleaning formulas).

  • Process & Workflow Excellence: Exceptional organizational skills with a track record of managing high-volume queues without sacrificing attention to detail.

  • Effective Communication: Ability to articulate complex data issues clearly to both technical teams and non-technical business partners.

  • Risk Mindset: A foundational understanding of financial services compliance, regulatory environments, or employee monitoring programs.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

  • At least 2 years of experience in operations, process management, data reconciliation, or Compliance onboarding workflows

  • At least 2 years of experience utilizing G-Suite or Microsoft Office for data tracking, reporting, or analysis


Preferred Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience in compliance operations, data integrity, or HR operations within a financial services institution

  • Familiarity with the operational tracking required under financial regulatory frameworks (managing monitored populations under FINRA, SEC, or CFTC guidelines)

  • Experience utilizing data management systems or specialized compliance surveillance tools to manage user permissions and communication groups

  • Experience partnering with internal business clients and technical teams to automate manual operational processes

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

McLean, VA: $96,500 - $110,100 for Compliance Advisory Specialist IINew York, NY: $105,300 - $120,100 for Compliance Advisory Specialist II


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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. 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.

About Capital One Financial Corporation

Chevy Chase Bank is the greater Washington region's largest locally-owned banking institution providing a complete array of financial products and services to consumers and businesses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bank, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, has approximately 250 branches and over 1,000 ATMs, more than anyone else in the greater Washington market. Chevy Chase Bank currently has over $16 billion in assets and services over 1 million customers. For more information about Chevy Chase Bank, please visit chevychasebank.com.

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Learn more about Capital One Financial Corporation
Size
51,500 employees
Market Cap
$34.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+2.4%
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