PayPal

Director, Enterprise Risk Management – Payments

PayPal

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona, California, Illinois

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Salary

💰 $152,500 - $262,350 per year

Job Level

Lead

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
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