Senior Director, Financial Controls

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

• This role will be responsible for internal control design and process documentation. You will work cross-functionally with the finance, product, IT and internal audit teams to ensure an effective control environment.
• You will work closely with process owners to help develop internal controls, modify process documentation and control design as the environment changes and partner with teams to address control gaps and deficiencies
• This role is a new position reporting directly to the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO). You will build out a team (size to be determined) to help support process documentation and the control environment.
• The CAO team has global responsibility for accounting and external reporting. This role will work with multiple teams to ensure we maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting and to identify process improvement opportunities, as applicable.

Job Description:

·      You will set the standard for financial process documentation and identify ways to optimize our internal control environment.

·      You will work closely with key stakeholders across the PayPal enterprise to address control gaps and deficiencies, while driving process documentation and control ownership. 

In your day-to-day role you will

• Develop recommendations for process improvements or efficiency enhancements to company processes

• Oversee / write narratives and prepare flowcharts documenting financial processes and current internal control procedures

• Collaborate with process owners / managers to ensure ownership of all significant processes and controls

• Apply and assess financial reporting impact based on knowledge of Accounting Principles (e.g., US GAAP, IFRS)

• Identify potential control weaknesses and create value added, relevant solutions that align with business requirements without sacrificing efficiency

• Examine internal control gaps and recommend best practices

• Identify and review key controls in preparation for testing

• Assist as necessary with SOX walkthroughs in partnership with the Internal Audit SOX team and the Company’s external auditors

• Work cross-functionally to evaluate the operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting

• Work with finance, IT and operations t