Product Business Risk & Control Lead

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Job Description Summary:

The Business Risk and Control Lead (“BRCL”) is responsible for holistic and proactive First Line of Defense risk management, helping Product Teams manage the risk that they own.

Key Responsibilities:
• Execute risk management activities within the product organization:
- Perform and refresh risk assessments, including process mapping, risk identification, documentation, and rating
- Support in the ongoing identification and documentation of controls to ensure risks are sufficiently mitigated
- Execute PayPal's internal governance for the launch of new products, by supporting Product teams in early identification of risks/requirements and controls prior to launch
- Maintenance of Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) tool data for areas of responsibility
• Management and execution of risk programs for functional areas
• Support business needs surrounding documentation
• Provide assertions on risk exposure and articulate and present escalated risks to management.
• Maintain strong understanding of key risk management principles and PayPal products and services within area of responsibility.

Job Description:

The Business Risk and Control Lead (“BRCL”) is responsible for holistic and proactive First Line of Defense risk management, helping Product Teams manage the risk that they own. 

Key Responsibilities:
•    Execute risk management activities within the product organization:
 - Perform and refresh risk assessments, including process mapping, risk identification, documentation, and rating 
- Support in the ongoing identification and documentation of controls to ensure risks are sufficiently mitigated
 - Execute PayPal's internal governance for the launch of new products, by supporting Product teams in early identification of risks/requirements and controls prior to launch

- Deliver against PayPal's Issue Management Policy, ensuring issues are identified and documented in the system of record, with sufficient mitigation plans to address control gaps/failures

 - Maintenance of Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) tool data for areas of responsibility 
•    Management and execution of risk programs for functional areas
•    Support business needs surrounding documentation
•    Provide assertions on risk exposure and articulate and present escalated risks to management.
•    Maintain strong understanding of key risk management principles and PayPal products and services within area of responsibility.

About you:

• 10+ years of Risk, Compliance, Regulatory, banking, Audit, Operations or similar experience

• Experience in managing risks, controls, and/or compliance obligations, preferably in Operations or the financial industry including managing or supporting the following:

  o    The identification, assessment, control, and response to risks;

  o    Execution of risk response plans, including the development, prioritization, and communication of;

  o    Driving adherence to risk and compliance policies and procedures;

  o    Monitoring key risks and identifying emerging risks; and

  o    Navigating within a three lines of defense model to address risk matters

• Experience in control and/or process design

• Track record of driving action to support business results

• Possess the credibility and reputation to achieve effective working relationships with senior executives across the organized and in a matrixed organization

Competencies & Skills:

• Ability to provide risk expertise through a practical, business lens

• Ability to understand the nuance and risk interaction between product, jurisdiction, and function

• Strong project management skills.

• Ability to multitask effortlessly and manage competing priorities under demanding deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, manage projects and drive/achieve results

• Strong computer knowledge; excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint skills

• Superior verbal and written communication skills

• Operate with strong integrity with the ability to handle projects of a sensitive and confidential nature

• Demonstrates a natural curiosity to understand root cause

• Possess sound judgement, flexibility and nimbleness in changing courses and solving problems swiftly

• Demonstrates strong and effective collaboration skills and ability to operate comfortably within a complex cultural, global environment

• Demonstrates understanding of the organization’s strategic direction and objectives in order to articulate and embed the role of risk in enabling strategy

• Deep, established credibility with the business to understand and communicate risks generated and impacting the business

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].