Payment Assurance Specialist, Business Compliance, YouTube id-9442

May 24, 2025

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

8 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.

4 years of experience with forensic data analysis and auditing at either a professional services firm or in-house at a public corporation applying forensic methodology within the context of compliance.

Experience in formal risk management.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.

8 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.

Experience in accounting assessments, business agreements including multiple performance obligations, multi-year agreements and relative selling price allocation.

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About the job

As a Payment Assurance Specialist, you are the engagement manager taking responsibility for YouTube’s audit processes and execution. You drive our cross-functional effort to audit operations and deliver experience to our partners conducting the audit. You will lead cross-functional teams from Engineering, Partnerships, and Legal to enable audit execution: define scope of the audit, explain how YouTube business processes and systems work, gather data requests, follow-up on additional questions, validate findings, and perform data analysis to understand global impact. Work as part of a team to identify, design, develop, and document controls, systems, and analytics that will support audit testing, continuous auditing, continuous monitoring, automation, and quality assessment systems of payment flows.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $137,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

Assess existing payment processes to identify payment auditability and contractual audit requirements.

Pull data and perform analysis from various systems to address and satisfy data requests.

Lead cross-functional meeting to ensure that the scope of audit and data align with internal policy and procedures.

Coordinate efforts, technical ownership, and functional ownership of external audit requests.

Make recommendations on how to improve internal controls and governance processes.

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