Senior Manager, Governance

Overview

The UK Firm – PayPal UK (\”PPUK\”) PayPal has been operating in the UK for over 20 years serving large and small merchants and consumers across our two sided platform and with a wide range of payments, credit crypto and other adjacent products and services. PayPal UK Ltd (\”PPUK\”) is the PayPal UK regulated entity, with over 14 million customers. We also have an exciting growth agenda with the customer at the heart of everything we do.

The Senior Manager for Executive and Board Governance is responsible for leading executive and board governance fora for the PayPal UK regulated entity (PPUK). The responsibilities for this role are centred around ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of central PPUK Governance (including the PPUK Outsourcing, Conduct and Customer Outcomes Committee, Product Review Committee, Risk Committee, Asset and Liability Committee and Executive Committee) and proactively and progressively driving governance best practice.

Job Description Summary: The Senior Manager for Executive and Board Governance is responsible for working with the UK COO to ensure PPUK governance commitments are met in line with UK regulatory and policy expectations.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration and engagement with content and reporting owners across the PPUK three line of defence, to drive effective discussion and decision making across PPUK governance fora.
• Ensure coherence and consistency in reporting across all governance fora including PPUK Executive Committee and PPUK Board.
• Working closely with Committee Chairs and content owners to ensure simplicity, clarity and consistency in written updates and reporting.
• Promote increasingly data-led, dashboard reporting which enables upwards reporting and escalation to PPUK Board and Group stakeholders.
• Deliver training on governance and reporting best practice.
• Manage and lead Board and Executive governance secretariat.
• Work closely with the UK Board Secretariat and PPUK CEO to ensure appropriate alignment between Executive and Board governance reporting.
• Lead annual governance effectiveness reviews and associated enhancement programmes.
• Manage PPUK governance related internal audit inspections and regulatory information requests.

Skills Required

• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to engage with and understand governance priorities of Executive Management.
• Excellent drafting skills and depth of experience in distilling complexity into clear and simple narrative, which is tailored for an Executive audience.
• Proactive approach to managing stakeholder engagement.
• A team player with excellent time management skills and the ability to successfully manage multiple responsibilities at one time.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrate ability to see the big picture as well as analyze the detail.
• A passion and curiosity for understanding and building knowledge of the payments and ecommerce business.

Experience you\’ll have

• 10+ years in the financial industry with proven experience in leading governance for a regulated financial services and/or payments firm.
• Proven ability to work in a global, matrixed organization.
• Ideally, experience in secretariat, legal and/or communications Function where drafting clear and simple narrative is a core capability.

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