PayPal | Jobs | Data Engineer 3 | BigDataKB.com | 05-02-22

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At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We’re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work. We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.

Job Description Summary: Describe Your Team: We are Analytical Data Services within the Finance & Payments Engineering Organization, expanding our capabilities and expertise to tackle even more challenges and further advance the data science solutions and impact that we bring to businesses across the company. To ensure Finance Data Analytical solutions that solve business problems, we deep dive with our partners to understand their reporting needs and pinpoint “gaps” that need to be address. Then formulate cloud-based solutions to solve critical business problems such as: Planning & Forecasting, Budgeting, Daily Forecast Variance, Accruals, Open POs and closing. Describe the Opportunity: The Finance Data Platforms is looking for a full time experienced, customer-oriented, business-focused, and analytically driven Data Engineer (T24) to support the delivery of Finance Data Mart operations and project portfolios commitments. The Data Engineer will interface with teams, customer, and leaders alike to ensure seamless technological support of business process by ensuring the technologies we support are not an inhibitor to the business process. • Ensure Quality – Base the delivery model on best practices to drive efficiency / manage risks • Operational Excellence – Deliver on all commitments with no business disruption • Be accountable for continuous improvements. • Communicate effectively to instill confidence, as well as build trust and strengthen partnerships The role will be responsible for supporting global stakeholder departments and working domain leads and data citizens across different GEO’s such as Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Because the position requires interaction with geographically disbursed teams so the candidate must be a self-starter with strong leadership qualities, project/task management skills, and analytical skills and comfortable working with distributed teams without direct management oversight day to day. He/she must be able to contribute to programs/initiatives and collaborate with the stakeholders and users as well as FADs analytical teams to drive alignment around Finance Application Services and Support for PayPal. These accountabilities will be achieved through developing high trust relationships with internal and external customers, critical data analysis, attention to detail and a customer focus. Process development and optimization, as well as deliverables management will be a focus for the role.

Job Description:

• Partner with us product managers to support domains (e.g., FP & A, Real Estate, Engineering, Leadership) on the Finance Organization to build and improve PayPal’s Financial Metrics (OPEX, CAPEX) to SLT, Financial Analysts, Space Strategy & Planning and across various managers/leaders who always look for Finance data.
• Deliver actionable, data-driven solutions to help understand financial data, launch, and optimize new features, and prioritize the product roadmap.
• Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create exec-facing dashboards, semantic layer to facilitate self-serve and build business cases that drive decision making and business prioritization.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior-level stakeholders.
• Define and cultivate best practices in analytics instrumentation and experimentation.
• Support multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment

For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.