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Senior Analyst, Financial Crime Advisory

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PayPal logoPaypal · London, UK
Full-timeHybrid2w ago
Compliance
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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 Summary: PPUK seeks an experienced financial crime risk and advisory specialist to support the MLRO and Financial Crime Compliance function in overseeing and enhancing the firm's financial crime framework. The role leads key initiatives, provides advisory support, and undertakes quality assurance of controls. The candidate will assess financial crime risks across customers, products and the entity, translate regulatory requirements into policy, and drive improvements in controls, procedures and governance. Essential Experience Drafting and implementing financial crime policies Providing advisory support to first line teams on higher-risk customers, products and new initiatives Conducting risk assessments at customer, product and entity level Performing quality assurance on customer files, assessing policy adherence and risk assessment completeness Strong analytical skills to interpret data sets, MI, KRIs and KPIs Producing written outputs for senior management and governance forums Job Description: Essential Responsibilities: Applying analytic techniques to complex information sets to make logical and effectively supported recommendations on cases for reporting. Such investigation decisions are critical to PayPal's fiduciary responsibility under the Bank Secrecy Act (Anti-Money Laundering rules) to effectively monitor customer's activities regarding detecting and reporting suspicious activity Assessment of customer profiles and large amounts of data to ensure normal and expected activity, including Acceptable Use Policy adherence and Know Your Customer efforts Documenting complex findings in a clear narrative style format, in the manual and automated process case management system and prepare reports to management as required Regularly exercise good judgment and in making decisions or recommendations in relation to multiple complex case investigations While other members of the team have a broad mandate when it comes to investigations, this role is specifically focused on High-Risk and complex. Analysis of trends within the use of Crypto on the PayPal platform to find potential methods of abuse and ensure our detections are working properly. Assessment of customer profiles and large amounts of data to ensure normal and expected activity, including Acceptable Use Policy adherence and Know Your Customer efforts Leveraging internal data as well as various open-source research platforms to investigate potentially illicit activities and support investigative decisions Documenting findings in narrative style format, in the manual and automated process case management system and prepare reports to management as required Regularly exercise good judgment and in making decisions or recommendations in relation to case investigations Minim


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