Overview

Join the Network's newly established Network Business Enablement Strategy & Transformation Team. 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, in a collaborative environment that values insight, encourages new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

Why Join the Network

• •Crown Jewel Investment: The Network is a core strategic focus of the Discover acquisition, receiving significant top of house backing and investment to drive growth.
• •Rethinking How We Work: As the Network modernizes, there is a massive opportunity to rethink core business processes, eliminate friction, work more efficiently, and leverage modern technology and AI.
• •High-Visibility Impact: You will get early, direct exposure to high-priority initiatives that shape how the broader organization operates.
• •Greenfield Operating Model Work: You will help evaluate and design how the organization organizes, prioritizes, and executes to support multi-billion-dollar scale.

Team Context

• •You will sit within the Network Strategy & Brand organization on a dedicated SWAT Pod, working directly with the head of the Network and the Network Leadership Team on urgent, cross-functional challenges.
• •Core focus areas include Structure (roles and strategic intent ownership), Process (cross-cutting workflows and governance), and People (skills, job families, and geo strategy).
• •The goal is doing the analytical and alignment work needed to get business leaders on the same page and move projects into action.

What You Will Gain

• •Executive Exposure: Regularly frame options, lead working sessions, and align recommendations directly with members of the Network Leadership Team.
• •Broad Payments and Network Domain Knowledge: Deep exposure to how a global network functions, including commercial models, risk interactions, and product prioritization.
• •Strong Launchpad for Future Roles: An end-to-end perspective on the business, making this a great stepping stone into future business, strategy, or operational roles.
• •Sharper White-Space Problem-Solving: Build a strong toolkit for taking messy, unstructured business problems and turning them into clear, actionable decision frameworks.

Types of Projects

• •White-Space Problem Solving and Workflow Mapping: Analyzing how work moves across teams, identifying operational friction points, untangling complex hand-offs, and defining clear ownership for core processes and strategic goals.
• •Fact-Based Analysis and Leadership Alignment: Running qualitative and quantitative analyses, conducting stakeholder interviews, and synthesizing options into crisp, decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership.
• •Capacity and Operational Readiness Modeling: Assessing organizational capability, required skill sets, location strategy, and enablement needs to ensure the Network is resourced to execute and scale efficiently.

Skills Required for Success

• •Consulting or Generalist Background: Experience and comfort tackling white space problems or strategy and management consulting.
• •Clear Executive Communication: Ability to synthesize complex discussions into simple, high-impact one-pagers and decision decks for executive forums.
• •Cross-Functional Influence: Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships, navigate matrixed teams, and bring leaders together around a common recommendation.
• •Problem Solving: A practical approach to gathering facts, conducting stakeholder interviews, and finding workable solutions without over-engineering.
• •Results Focus and High Throughput: Ability to juggle multiple fast-moving priorities in parallel, driving high output while maintaining quality.

Basic Qualifications

• •At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis.
• •Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems; or a Master's Degree or MBA with a quantitative concentration.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Master's Degree in Business or a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, or Engineering.
• •1+ years of experience in statistical model building.
• •1+ years of experience in market research.
• •1+ years of experience in SQL querying.
• •2+ years of experience in business analysis.
• •1+ years of experience in consulting.

Compensation

• •Chicago, IL: $101,100 - $115,400
• •McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900
• •Riverwoods, IL: $101,100 - $115,400

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long term incentives. Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.