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System Risk Management Specialist

Japan’s largest mobile payments platform (~75M users); SoftBank/LY Corporation fintech JV; 40% equity holder of Binance Japan.

Tokyo, Japan
About PayPay

PayPay Corporation is a Tokyo-based fintech company operating Japan’s leading QR/mobile payment service, founded 2018 as a SoftBank/Yahoo Japan (LY Corporation) joint venture, with banking (PayPay Bank), insurance and securities offerings. In October 2025 PayPay acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, making the crypto exchange an equity-method affiliate.

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Skills

About the Role

Assess and analyze risks across all systems, develop and implement risk-reduction measures, build and operate the system risk management framework, monitor its operation, maintain company-wide system risk controls, manage system-related incidents, and support risk management activities across the PayPay Group.

Requirements

  • Experience in the financial industry in system risk assessment or risk management, system incident or quality management, system audit or IT internal controls, or system development, operations, or maintenance
  • Knowledge of microservices
  • Knowledge of AWS, GCP, or other cloud environments
  • Knowledge of container technologies
  • Knowledge of web security
  • Business-level Japanese ability at N1 level or above
  • Experience with ISMS or PCI DSS is desirable
  • Experience with payment-system development, operations, or maintenance is desirable
  • Project management experience is desirable
  • System auditor qualification or system audit experience is desirable

Responsibilities

  • Assess and analyze risks across all company systems
  • Develop and implement risk-reduction measures
  • Build and operate the system risk management framework
  • Maintain the company-wide system risk management framework
  • Develop policies for system risk assessments
  • Promote system risk assessments
  • Maintain the system-related incident management framework
  • Monitor system departments
  • Support and promote system risk management activities across the PayPay Group

Benefits

  • Hybrid workstyle
  • Super flex work system with no core hours
  • Weekends and public holidays off
  • Year-end and company-designated holidays
  • Annual paid leave
  • Personal leave
  • Health insurance
  • Employees' pension insurance
  • Employment insurance
  • Workers' compensation insurance
  • Corporate defined contribution pension plan
  • Some salary can be received through a PayPay account