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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.

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In your day-to-day role you will:

• Perform comprehensive data analysis on potential matches across various regulatory sanctions lists and PayPal databases to ensure accuracy and efficiency in the sanctions screening system. Collaborate on the development, tuning, and optimization of sanctions transaction and profile screening by leveraging large alert and customer datasets and statistical analysis to derive business rules and Good Guys, aimed at reducing false positives.
• Conduct data driven analysis of system generated alerts across regions, payment flows, and scenarios to seek optimization and tuning opportunities across diverse screening configurations and algorithms, with an eye for proposing new screening rules and algorithms to enhance screening quality and efficiency.
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to provide real-time insights into sanctions program performance and key metrics.
• Foster collaborative partnerships across Sanctions Operations, Product, Engineering, Policy, and Internal Audit to address sanctions screening escalation, regulatory lists, scanning approaches, and feature enablement.
• Work on projects to modernize sanctions platforms, incorporating big data solutions to improve performance and scalability.
• Regularly review and validate screening processes to ensure data integrity and regulatory compliance.
• Leveraging data and statistical analysis techniques to derive thresholds, identify outliers and utilize statistical sampling techniques to facilitate above-the-line and below-the-line testing
• Analyze large, complex datasets and business requirements to draw meaningful conclusions.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelors degree with a minimum of four years of experience in sanctions transaction Screening, profile screening, and AML, including at least two years in data analytics or data science.
• Thorough understanding of economic sanctions programs administered by regulators such as OFAC, EU, UN, CSSF, etc.
• Proficiency in SQL, BigQuery, Python, R, Tableau, and Power BI, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of Hadoop, Hive, Jupyter Notebooks; data warehouse skills is highly desirable
• Experience with and advanced understanding of SQL queries, data structure and data profiling
• Experience with Firco Continuity utilities, Decision Reapplication, including understanding of matching rules, mitigation rules and list management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively translate data insights into actionable business recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop data-driven solutions for complex business challenges, fostering trust and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Strong intellectual curiosity, strategic thinking, and a passion for solving problems, with comfort navigating ambiguity.
• Capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with independence and initiative.
• Skilled in presenting complex quantitative analyses to business stakeholders in a clear, accessible manner.
• High energy and a results-oriented mindset, with a passion for understanding and serving PayPals unique community.

, Your way to impact: As a Data Scientist on the Sanctions Analytics team, you will lead efforts to provide data-driven solutions, optimize sanctions screening systems, and manage sanctions-related data. Your work will enhance the efficiency and accuracy of our scanning systems by optimizing filtering algorithms and implementing strategies to reduce false positives, ultimately minimizing friction for legitimate customers. The Sanctions Analytics team plays a key role in designing and managing effective compliance detection programs to identify potential financial crimes and sanctioned activities, ensuring PayPals adherence to global regulations. Our programs deliver comprehensive risk coverage that meets the obligations of regulators, financial partners, and settlement networks.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Internet

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