Director, Finance Transformation

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:

PayPal is seeking a Global Finance Process Re-Engineering Enablement Leader to join the Corporate Finance team, The position is part of the Finance Enablement, Control and Transformation (FECT) team. The Finance Re-engineering leader will be responsible for working directly with all areas of the Finance Organization and internal partners that support data, technology, and engineering to develop and deliver a multi-year view of process improvement opportunities. The Process Re-Engineering program in parallel to the Finance Transformation program. The Process Engineering Program and the Finance Transformation Program will to be complimentary and synergistic. Delivery would include all aspects of budgeting, planning and status reporting. For the Finance Process Re-engineering program.

Job Description:

Finance Process Re-engineering Leader will be responsible for: 

• Identifying and delivering a clear and impactful strategy for meaning process improvement. 

• Create and maintain an ongoing process that identifies process improvement priorities.  This includes managing the decision process for resource requirements and resource allocations for potential priorities.   

• Establishing a team structure for a modestly sized team that can drive accountability and deliver recurring value on an ongoing basis.

• Create a culture of accountability to ensure the implementation of the scope, budget, schedule, and quality of priorities. 

• Consider the dependencies for change management by providing resources and creating confidence in the organization’s ability to successfully manage change.    

• Accountability for realizing value from implementing both quick wins and mid/longer term initiatives. 

• Leading and managing detailed, well formulated project work. 

​This position will set and socialize a clear vision for the future state operating model for critical decisions that impact finance.  The position will drive to operating model integration decisions among both business and functional stakeholders by partnering with business leaders and functional leaders.  The performance of the Re-Engineering Program Team will demonstrate best in class program management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the process to identify Finance strategic priorities.

• Increase awareness across the Finance organizational about the Finance Process Reengineering vision and ongoing accomplishments.

• Create and implement a multi-year strategic Finance project plan. 

• Identify and implement the team structure to support the implementation of the Finance process improvement 165116strategy including processes, technology, and talent as well as provide the end-to-end view of implications and dependencies.

• Primary owner of Finance process re-engineering activities including current state and future state process maps and improvement plans

• Manage the process to develop business cases that result in a centralized finance technology roadmap.  Develop a prioritization framework and recommend approval/ budget allocation.

• Serve as coach, model, and cultural steward for PayPal values.

• Regularly identify areas of improvement, research best practices and offer guidance and recommendations for process changes and potential solutions.

• In addition to supporting Finance process improvements, develop the ability to support strategic process and organizational re-engineering opportunities. 

• Support the planning for finance technology requirements that includes prioritization, planning, budgeting coordination, and execution.

• Support the budget and planning for the transformational planning for finance technology and data. 

• Translating, communicating, and working in close partnership with the product, business and technology partners on to best to deliver requirements for finance, in terms of data management, service delivery, technology, etc.

• Perform periodic analysis of current finance technology capabilities and maintain a multi-year roadmap to drive scale and efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to drive systems harmonization where required and leverage the existing platforms to drive simplification and efficiency.

• Accountable for Initiating and driving continuous improvement projects and/