Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
PayPal · Posted Oct 26
Online payment processing, digital wallet, money transfer, and financial services
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About the role
PayPal operates a global, two-sided payments network connecting hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers across roughly 200 markets, with products including PayPal, Venmo and Xoom. This role sits in the Payments Finance team, which owns revenue and transaction expense performance for the business and partners closely with Accounting, Corporate Finance and Product. The Finance Manager will own the data, reporting and dashboards explaining how Total Processing Volume, revenue and transaction expenses (interchange, scheme fees, processing fees) translate into transaction margin, including SQL analysis, variance analysis and margin opportunity sizing.
What you will do
- Facilitate collaborative engagement with business to cultivate strong partnership and unlock incremental value for the enterprise
- Ensure in-depth understanding of the business to proactively identify key business drivers
- Effectively communicate financial results & key drivers through concise & effective storytelling
- Streamline, improve, & automate designated workstreams and processes to drive efficiency
- Manage business case modeling, run deep dive analysis, and other ad-hoc financial analysis
- Monitor expense and headcount plan vs actual and provide analysis/recommendation for business partners and Finance team
- Work autonomously but in collaboration with teammates and business partners supporting a global business
- Guide the business through various finance-related tasks
- Own budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, variance analysis, and reporting
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Controllership, Corporate FP&A, Legal, and a broad group of business stakeholders
- Turn transaction-level data into clear insight on what is driving take rate, TE rate and margin: mix, card type, region, merchant segment, scheme fee changes and more.
- Build the dashboards leadership uses to monitor payments performance, replacing manual spreadsheets with scalable, automated reporting.
- Find margin opportunities, such as interchange optimization, scheme fee leakage, IC+ pass-through gaps and pricing outliers, and size them for Product and leadership.
- Improve the accuracy of forecasts by giving Corporate Finance reliable volume and rate drivers.
- Strengthen the link between operational data and the general ledger so our numbers tie out.
- Writing and maintaining SQL queries to pull and transform transaction, revenue and cost data.
- Building and maintaining dashboards in [Tableau / Looker / Power BI] tracking TPV, revenue, transaction expenses, take rate, TE rate and margin.
- Running monthly and quarterly variance analysis (actual vs. forecast vs. prior period) and explaining the drivers in plain language.
- Supporting month-end close by reconciling revenue and transaction expenses with Accounting.
- Monitoring scheme fee and interchange changes and quantifying their impact on cost and pass-through.
- Doing ad hoc deep dives for leadership and Product, for example merchant profitability or pricing scenarios.
- Documenting data definitions and metric logic so everyone uses one version of the truth.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 4+ years in FP&A, revenue analytics, business intelligence or a similar analytical role.
- Strong SQL skills: joins, window functions, CTEs, and working with large transaction-level datasets.
- Hands-on dashboarding experience in Tableau, Looker, Power BI or similar.
- Strong Excel/Sheets and financial modeling skills.
- A solid grasp of P&L concepts and variance analysis.
- The ability to explain complex numbers simply to non-finance partners.
- Payments experience is a strong plus: interchange, scheme fees, IC+ vs. blended pricing, acquiring and processing.
- Nice to have: Python, or data modeling experience; exposure to multi-currency or cross-border payments.
Benefits and support
- generous paid time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your family
- resources to create financial security and support your mental health
- balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at your choice of office or home workspace
About PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system that supports online money transfers globally. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods, providing merchant processing, digital wallets, and peer-to-peer payment services through major brands like Venmo, Braintree, and Xoom.
- Industry
- Financial Technology
- Company size
- 23800 employees
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $216M raised
- 2022-07-26Post IPO
Leadership
President & Chief Executive Officer
Jamie Miller
Chief Financial & Operating Officer
Srini Venkatesan
Chief Technology Officer
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