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About Capital One Canada

For 30 years, we've been on a mission to change banking for good. We challenge the traditional bank stereotype, fostering a culture where innovation thrives and bold ideas are celebrated. We pair data-driven strategy with the autonomy to take ownership of complex, high-impact challenges.

You'll be encouraged to own your work from end-to-end and challenge the status quo to build solutions that impact the lives of millions of Canadians, because at Capital One we analyze and innovate. You'll be empowered to grow and develop in an environment that balances high-performance standards with a genuine investment in your long-term success. If you're ready to redefine what's possible and drive exponential growth, this is where you can create what's next.

About the Team

In this role, you'll be working with Business Analysts, Financial Analysts and Project Managers supporting Strategy and Business Development functions within Canada Card.

About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and evaluating new business opportunities, including products, marketing strategies, and partnerships. The team also supports senior leadership to understand market dynamics, competitor moves, and emerging trends.

As a Manager, Business Analysis at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you'll do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

The Strategy team is responsible for working with the Canada leadership team to define long-term goals for the business that enable consistent and resilient growth. In addition, the team works to identify how these goals can be achieved, partnering with key stakeholders, and to prioritize and assess new opportunities and partnerships. The team also maintains close relationships with Capital One US counterparts and business partners to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.

Your Responsibilities:

• Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory behavior, and to drive business to meet long-term goals

• Business ownership: Have an ownership mindset, and P&L accountability for business cases. Strategic planning with a 1-6 month horizon

• Leadership: Role will evolve to include managing and developing a team of analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates throughout the organization with a goal of developing talent at Capital One

• Execution: Coordinate and collaborate across the business to manage and sequence delivery of business cases and initiatives, build business requirements and execute against the growth strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently

• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: Tech, Marketing, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability

• Strategic & Analytic Orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management

• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business. Self-starter, and comfortable with blue-sky thinking and working with imperfect/incomplete information

• Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. He/she should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results

• Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills

• 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

• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience in quantitative analysis/financial modelling

• At least 1 year of experience in managing high impact projects

• At least 2 years of experience in competitive/market analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a quantitative field (Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science, Engineering)

• At least 2 years of experience in Corporate Strategy, Strategy Consulting, Strategy and Operations, and/or Business Development

• At least 1 year of experience in people management

• Experience working with a broad stakeholder group, including senior leaders and executives

Working at Capital One

You'll be empowered to take end-to-end ownership of your work and your career, backed by a high-performance, hybrid culture and holistic suite of benefits designed to support your whole self.

• Take ownership of your own potential: Whether you're looking to upskill, pivot into new business areas, or master your craft, you'll have access to tools and mentorship to reach your potential and define your career trajectory.

• Find your rhythm: We believe trust fosters the flexibility and autonomy required to balance personal needs with a focus on high performance. We support a hybrid model - with 3 days in the office per week - that gives room for both collaboration and personal commitments.

• Benefits built for your life: We take a holistic approach to well-being, providing support for you and those who are most important to you. This includes: full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents, a one-time Work From Home allowance to build your comfortable workspace, up to $3,000 in mental health coverage and up to $5,000 in annual tuition subsidies.

You'll find that Capital One is committed to helping you thrive and evolve every step of the way.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

The expected annual salary range for this position is $157,400 - $179,600. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Weembrace the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the candidate experience and streamline our recruitment processes. However, no hiring decisions are made using AI as every hiring decision is made by our hiring managers, business interviewers, and recruitment professionals. Our teams are equipped with training that empowers them to use AI responsibly.

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