Salary
💰 $152,500 - $262,350 per year
About the role
- Design and execute PayPal’s enterprise-wide payments risk strategy across fraud, credit, liquidity, and operational risk
- Establish frameworks for risk assessment, prioritization, and control design
- Lead operational risk committees and contribute to senior leadership forums
- Oversee end-to-end risk assessments of payment operations, including reconciliation, ledger integrity, settlement, and exception management
- Mitigate risks tied to network processing, infrastructure failures, payment fraud, anomalies, processing errors, and vendor exposures
- Identify, monitor, and report key risk indicators (KRIs) and operational loss events; ensure remediation
- Develop and enhance operational controls to strengthen payment processing integrity, scalability, and fraud defenses
- Oversee risk modeling initiatives and lead incident management including escalation, investigation, root cause analysis, containment, and remediation
- Partner with business, technology, compliance, governance, payment networks, regulators, financial institutions, and processing partners
- Provide strategic risk guidance on new payment products, projects, and technology deployments
- Inspire and mentor diverse talent within risk and payments teams
Requirements
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred
- 12–15+ years of experience in payments, operational risk, fraud prevention, enterprise risk management, or financial regulation
- In-depth expertise in payment systems, settlement processes, and risk frameworks (SOX, COSO, or equivalent)
- Proven track record of success in complex financial or fintech environments
- Experience with high-volume, high-value payment networks in a fintech, payments processor, or financial institution (preferred)
- Strong technical acumen for collaborating with engineering and risk teams on tools, models, and algorithms (preferred)
- Familiarity with global payment requirements, fraud trends, regulatory standards, and compliance practices (preferred)
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and executive influencing skills
- Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional and external partnerships