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Do you have a passion for conducting investigations and analyzing financial activity? Do you want to join a company that will give you industry leading training, cutting edge technology and access to worldwide, world-class customers? Join PayPal’s Global Financial Crimes and Consumer Protection team!

NOTE: weekend work will be required.

As a PayPal Suspicious Activity Reporting Investigator I, you will be a part of PayPal’s Global Financial Crimes and Consumer Protection organization tasked with ensuring that activity within the PayPal system is compliant with Anti-Money Laundering regulations and guidelines. You will be expected to be an AML subject matter expert, with specific emphasis on the creation, monitoring, and timely delivery of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) to local regulators such as FinCEN, CSSF, AUSTRAC, FinTRAC, etc. In the preparation of SARs, you will exercise independent judgment and discretion handling highly sensitive casework. In this role, you will investigate customer activity across multiple platforms to ensure that it falls within acceptable parameters established by governing bodies including, but not limited to, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Your efforts will be in accordance to PayPal’s Ethics and Compliance Standards, and obligations to the appropriate regulations, such as the Bank Secrecy and USA PATRIOT Acts, and the governing authorities.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to understand opposing points of view on highly complex issues and to negotiate and integrate different viewpoints with all levels of Global Compliance & Ethics leadership. You may be expected to interact with peers and financial crimes risk professionals, all levels of management, and other internal or external constituents in order to represent reasoning of case disposition. It will be critical for you to stay current with policy changes and seek ways to enhance current processes and controls.

Fluent English required for this role.

As a Suspicious Activity Reporting Investigator, your responsibilities include:

Applying analytic techniques to complex information sets in order to make logical and effectively supported recommendations on cases for reporting to Financial Crimes enforcement Network (FinCEN) and/or OFAC. 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 with regard to detecting and reporting suspicious activity, including the predicate offenses of money laundering and terrorist financing

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity

Job details
Education field:
Work experience:
Work experience is required
Duration of work experience:
Up to 1 year
Language skills:
  • English
  • Fluent
Required skills:
Criminal law, Financial analysis, International law
Salary range:
Not provided
Date of expiry:

About company

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 210 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways,… Find out more