PayPal Sr Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis 

United States, California, San Jose 

840866938

The FP&A Analyst will support Transaction Loss FP&A activities such as building budgets and forecasts, maintaining reserve adequacy models and providing transparency on transaction losses trends at
The FP&A Analyst will report into the Transaction Loss FP&A Lead and will be based in San Jose but with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Support planning and forecasting processes
• Review business performance on regular cadences (weekly, monthly,quarterly)Collaboratewith stakeholders to gather inputs and summarize insights
• Produce executive-level presentations
• Work closely with the finance and technical teams to drive process and system improvements
• Facilitate discussions with various stakeholders, manage expectations, and collaborate cross-functionally
• Consult with finance leads to review and discuss key issues, risks, and dependencies for assigned initiatives
• Document and escalate potential risks/issues, assist in developing mitigation strategies, and support their implementation

Expected Qualifications:

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

Key responsibilities of this role are:

• Support planning and forecasting for PayPal Transaction Loss and work with Risk & BI teams to produce weekly, monthly and quarterly reports, review quarterly forecasts and annual budgets acrossproducts/segments/regions.
• Play a key role during the month-end and quarter-end close cycles.
• Help maintain the Forecast Reserve Adequacy Model (FRAMe) for PayPal and its main cross-properties, ensuring appropriate reserve levels and adherence to audit/controllership principles.
• Partner with Risk BI/GOAL team to transform our forecasting and reporting capabilities towards a customer-based view and while providing proactive and action-oriented Transaction Loss insights to BU Leadership & BU FP&A partners.
• Derive actionable insights based on quantitative and qualitative research, discover new opportunities and identify the gaps to grow and optimize business through deep dive analysis on very large quantities of data.
• Support Finance process and system improvements, partnering with global FP&A/Analytics and technology teams.

• Successfully collaborate with Transaction Loss FP&A colleagues, and the broader FP&A community including BU & Global Markets FP&A.
• Take part in process transformation workstreams aiming at creating more robust processes in line with the company-wide effort.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or related field.
• Experience gained in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, management consulting or risk management; ideally in fast-paced, agile and growth environments.
• Demonstrated experience in financial modeling, forecasting, and analysis. Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills. Experience with database products is a plus (i.e. Essbase, SQL, Python, SAP).
• Thorough understanding and experience of working with large customer and transactional datasets and true desire to understand the drivers of the business.
• Ability to effectively manage projects/ results oriented.
• Strong communication skills and experience distilling and presenting complex financial analyses into action-oriented recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills: ability to work across functions, organization & geographies and influence peers and more senior colleagues.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $84,500 to $140,250

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