PayPal Director Liquidity & Market Risk Oversight 

Ireland, Dublin 

608315292

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy for risk management with significant impact on operations.
• Influence executive-level decision-making through strategic risk assessments and recommendations.
• Partner with stakeholders to implement strategies that reduce or transfer identified risks.
• Monitor and analyze risk exposure to ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Lead initiatives that contribute to long-term sustainability and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

Expected Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Your Way to Impact

• Build a best-in-class 2LOD liquidity risk oversight program with clear appetite, limits, and early-warning indicators.

• Raise the bar on stress testing, cash-flow forecasting, and contingency funding readiness.

• Harmonize global standards while meeting local prudential requirements in APAC/LATAM.

• Provide crisp, decision-useful reporting and timely escalation through governance channels

Key Responsibilities

• Risk Appetite & Limits: Own the global liquidity risk appetite (e.g., survival horizon, stressed outflows, liquidity buffers, EWIs). Set/approve limits; track breaches and remediation

• Independent Challenge of 1LOD: Review and challenge cash-flow forecasting, funding strategy, investment liquidity, partner-bank/PSP arrangements, andsafeguarding/segregationof customer funds

• Contingency Readiness: Oversee Contingency Funding Plans and liquidity playbooks; test triggers, options, and execution drills; ensure recovery/resolution alignment where relevant.

• Intraday & Settlement Liquidity: Challenge intraday monitoring, settlement exposures, andpayment-rail/clearingrisks; ensure controls for cross-border and multi-currency flows.

• Metrics, Data, and Reporting: Drive high-quality, automated liquidity MI and dashboards; ensure data lineage and reproducibility; deliver concise insights to senior management and Board Risk.

• Governance & Escalation: Strengthen forums, challenge papers, issue management, and timely escalation of emerging liquidity risks.

• Provide 2LOD challenge on ALM/IRRBB, FX exposures from balance-sheet flows and hedging, and investment portfolio risk.

• Review sensitivity, stress, and limit frameworks; monitor breaches and remediation; ensure governance alignment with liquidity priorities.

• Own 2LOD prudential standards for APAC/LATAM entities (e.g., ILAAP/ICAAP or local equivalents) with emphasis on liquidity adequacy, documentation, and governance.

• Supervisory Engagement: Act as senior 2LOD contact for exams/thematics; manage submissions, findings, and commitments to closure.

• Regulatory Change: Maintain an obligations inventory; assess impact; drive timely, well-controlled implementation across entities.

• Mentor, coach, and develop a high-performing team of risk professionals.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in liquidity risk, treasury risk, asset/liability management with substantial 2LOD or supervisory experience

• Deep expertise in liquidity measurement (forecasting, stress testing, buffers, contingency planning,safeguarding/segregation)and governance.

• Proven leadership of ILAAP/ICAAP (or local equivalents) and Board-level risk reporting.

• Experience engaging regulators in EMEA and at least one of APAC or LATAM.

• Exceptional communication—able to translate complex analysis into clear, executive-ready narratives.

• Payments/fintech or e-money background; partner-bank/PSP arrangements; settlement and intraday liquidity.

• Data/analytics fluency (e.g., SQL/Python) to validate results and enhance MI.

• Hands-on, pragmatic working style that adapts withorganizational needs

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please