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Sr Business Analyst, Commercial Bank Sustainable Finance

Capital One
United States, Virginia, McLean
Mar 29, 2025
Sr Business Analyst, Commercial Bank Sustainable Finance

Summary:

As a Senior Business Analyst at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. 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.

About the team:

The team's core responsibility is developing and executing the Commercial Bank's Sustainable Finance strategy by delivering data driven insights, pioneering thought leadership, and fostering cross-functional collaboration across Capital One. Its goal is to drive sustainability-related Commercial activity in line with Capital One's resiliency and growth objectives as well as the interests of customers, shareholders, employees, and regulators. Key workstreams include supporting risk management focused on known and emerging financial and credit risks, benchmarking external factors that will influence the evolving strategy, and identifying and executing on new opportunities for solutions that better serve our Commercial Clients. A Senior Business Analyst on the Commercial Sustainable Finance team applies strategic and analytical skills to their work. The Senior Business Analyst will track competitor, regulator, and client positioning, manage Sustainable Finance reporting for Commercial, and work closely with the Head of Sustainable Finance and internal stakeholders to identify and develop our data and reporting needs to support evolving strategic initiatives and potential public disclosures.

Responsibilities:

Hires are expected to be well-rounded and inventive problem-solvers comfortable addressing ambiguous questions, executing sophisticated analyses and presenting recommendations to senior leaders. A focus on teamwork and building long-term trusted partnerships, both within the team and beyond, are essential to success. Strong interpersonal skills, poise, and a willingness to roll up one's sleeves and tackle diverse challenges as they come are invaluable in this business.

Specific responsibilities & competencies include, but are not limited to:

  • Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on data analysis and intellectual rigor

  • Market analysis & forecasting: Analyze sustainable finance performance trends (internal and market trends), investigate variance, frame up risks and opportunities, anticipate future outcomes, and make recommendations

  • Quality and clarity: Pursue standardization and clarity around how we analyze data, and support improvements in our data infrastructure to be more robust and reliable. Deliver error-free work and crystal clear insights to enable rapid response efforts and efficient decision-making. Scope of work examples include building, owning & maintaining Commercial Sustainable Finance Dashboards, owning data and calculations to support climate-related disclosures, and managing regular reporting to Commercial leadership

  • Clear results orientation: Display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. Be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment. Lead individual workstreams to completion and support cross-functional working groups

  • Foster a collaborative culture: Champion our culture to enable all associates to deliver career-defining successes and exceed our goals in an open and welcoming environment. Lean in as appropriate to support partners and peers to drive highest business priorities

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

  • Learning Agility: Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. This includes an eagerness to pick up new skills including SQL and Python and investigate external data and tools relevant to Sustainable Finance initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • At least 1 year of experience in analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering

  • 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building

  • 1+ years of experience in market research

  • 1+ years of experience in SQL querying or Data Visualization

  • 2+ years of experience in business analysis

  • 1+ years of experience in consulting

  • 1+ years of experience in senior leadership communications

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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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: $109,000 - $124,400 for Sr. Business Analyst

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. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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.

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