As a PayPal Compliance Strategic Investigations Manager, you will be a part of PayPal’s Global Financial Crimes and Compliance (GFCC) organization, tasked with ensuring that activity within the PayPal system is compliant with Anti-Money Laundering regulations and guidelines. You will be managing a team of professional investigators responsible for execution of our AML program. You will provide oversight, people development and management, as well as strategic program development and direction utilizing investigative techniques, data, and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) to local regulators such as FinCEN, CSSF, AUSTRAC, FinTRAC, etc. In addition, you will be responsible for helping to lead critical response efforts that relate to fraud, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism financing, or activity that may pose a risk to PayPal’s brand.
You will build, develop and coach a team who will investigate customer and broad based company activity across multiple platforms to detect trends, process improvements, and ensure that it falls within acceptable parameters established by various governing bodies. You will help drive appropriate monitoring and controls in accordance with PayPal’s Compliance and Ethics Standards, and obligations to the appropriate regulations, such as the Bank Secrecy and USA PATRIOT Acts, and other governing authorities.
A critical component of your role will be the ongoing development of a high performing team, capable of producing the highest quality work amidst the ever-changing global compliance landscape. You will incorporate effective leadership practices to ensure that your team successfully executes on their obligations and you will be responsible for the quality of their output. You will need to demonstrate the ability to understand opposing points of view within your team and across the organization on highly complex issues and to negotiate and integrate different viewpoints with all levels of GFCC leadership.
You will interact with peers and financial crimes risk professionals, all levels of management, and other internal or external constituents, such as Law Enforcement and Regulators, in order to deliver comprehensive views on investigative and intelligence matters.
It will be critical for you to stay current with policy changes, seek ways to enhance current processes and controls, and communicate as much to your team in a complete and transparent manner at all times. You will exercise independent judgement and discretion handling various escalations and scenarios within your team as well as highly sensitive escalations and casework from a variety of sources throughout PayPal.
