Risk and Compliance Oversight

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary: The EMEA Market Compliance team (“Compliance team”) is responsible for second line of defense compliance risk oversight, management and reporting across PayPal Europe (Legal Entity). The team is part of the consolidated company-wide second line, which is independent and organisationally separate from PayPal’s business and centralised organisations. This Compliance role will provide oversight support for PPEU, EMEA markets and adjacencies. The role is critical to ensuring that PPEU is able to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory obligations while delivering the right customer outcomes.

**Job Description**:

- **Engage critical Risk and Compliance program stakeholders to help support business initiatives and execute SOLD program requirements**:

- ** Provide advisory guidance by identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and managing risk on planned growth initiatives, new products, expansion of existing products, marketing campaigns, etc. to the regional business/sales/market development and adjacencies teams**:

- ** Ensure regulatory requirements specific to the country/region and adjacencies are understood and complied with**:

- **Provide advisory support on all compliance programs including Annual Risk, Compliance Program (ARCPs), Risk, Compliance, Initiative Program (RCIPs), Risk and Compliance Reporting (RCR), Policy and SOP reviews, Risk Life Cycle, content reviews, etc. for all EMEA markets and adjacencies**:

- ** Supporting the oversight and monitoring of key Regulatory Compliance operational processes, including issue management, ARCPs, incident management, regulatory reporting, etc. to ensure quality, timeliness, appropriate follow-up, and escalation when needed**:

- ** Supporting the oversight and monitoring of Second Line Testing activities with an impact to EMEA-specific markets and adjacencies**:

- **Contributing to existing internal and external reporting and support preparation and coordination of various Compliance Regulatory Reports**:

- ** Preparing Management Information materials and support in the presentation to the various governance forums and management meetings**:
**Capabilities**:

- ** An ability to lead through influence, personal conviction, and sensitivity**:

- ** An ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment**:

- ** A proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments and exhibit agility in navigating from the current state to proposed solutions.**:

- ** Strong integrity and the ability to handle projects of a sensitive and confidential nature**:

- ** Relevant professional qualifications will be an added advantage**:
**Experience/Skills**:

- ** You have related experience in risk, compliance, operational risk, legal, or management of a process or business with accountability for compliance or audit**:

- ** Be able to evidence broad experience and understanding of EMEA financial services regulation, with emphasis on financial crime, consumer protection, and payment/e-money regulation**:

- ** Evidence of sustained execution and delivery of results within a driven, performance-related culture**:

- ** Prior experience in implementing regulatory change**:

- ** Practical knowledge of either Luxembourg or UK regulatory frameworks**:

- ** Ability to operate within a Compliance advisory capacity; using your knowledge to identify issues and guide pragmatic risk mitigation**:

- ** Ability to operate across the Compliance risk program and other stakeholders including advisory, monitoring, reporting, and governance**:

- ** Proven and demonstrated leadership skills including relationship-building and collaboration skills**:

- ** You are a self-starter and highly motivated to work in a fast-paced and changing environment**:

- ** Ability to credibly challenge solutions and ensure the timely escalation of issues and concerns as and when appropriate**:

- ** You have strong project management skills, including leadership and consensus building**:

- ** You are adaptable in unexpected situations and comfortable dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty**:

- ** Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with experience presenting to Senior Leadership**:

- ** Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical/creative thinking**:

- **Strong computer knowledge; excellent MS skills.**:

- ** Supporting internal and external audit exercises and remediation of related actions.**:

- ** Building and maintaining good working relationships with the first-line business owners responsible for delivering core regulatory obl