Description:
Capital One Travel is seeking a Principal Analyst to join our Finance Operations Payments team. This role requires a professional with exceptional attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills to manage and execute payment processes across various functions of the organization.
The successful candidate will be instrumental in mitigating operational risks, developing and updating procedural frameworks, and overseeing the reporting of critical payment health metrics. Furthermore, the Principal Analyst will collaborate with diverse teams across Capital One Travel Operations and lead the evolution of payment workflows toward a future-state model.
Responsibilities:
- Validate inventory supplier invoice accuracy using the VIP invoice validation tool.
- Troubleshoot any discrepancies discovered during invoice validation and connect with the proper teams to resolve issues.
- Work with leadership to create and maintain a dispute process for inventory supplier invoices.
- Understand contractual terms of suppliers and the dispute processes outlined in supplier contracts.
- Create detailed invoice dispute packages and communicate with suppliers to quickly resolve disputes.
- Serve as a payment processing backup to the Senior Associate.
- Understand and review our financial reconciliation data and reporting processes
- Support risk management activities over enhanced control environment, including procedures maintenance, control testing, and process-level assessments
- Coordinate with Capital One Travel Risk Management, Finance Risk Management and other risk offices on best revenue practices across Enterprise
- Partner with Finance, Operations, Product, and Business teams to streamline processes and resolve issues impacting supplier payments
- Reduce operational exceptions and drive efficiencies via automation, elimination, and transfer of processes away from manual touchpoints
- Lead ad-hoc projects as necessary, such as developing and leading new Finance-
- managed services or other initiatives
- Proactively and independently identify, investigate, and drive solutions for process, data quality inefficiencies and control enhancements.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or military experience
- At least 3 years of experience in Accounting, Audit, Risk Management or Finance or a combination
- At least 1 year of experience utilizing SQL