Lead Financial Analyst Commercial jobs at Booking in Netherlands, Amsterdam

As a Financial Systems Risk Officer, you safeguard the quality of our IT processes and controls, aligned with our risk appetite. You partner with cross‑brand stakeholders across functions, balancing a helicopter view with hands‑on detail to understand processes and provide precise guidance.

• Partner with Financial Systems and the wider business to design and implement IT controls that strengthen the control environment, mitigate risks, and enable business objectives; embed Risk & Control in projects/initiatives; and monitor control performance for timely, effective execution.

• Lead scheduled and ad‑hoc risk assessments to identify risks and control gaps; recommend improvements; design and implement controls.

• Drive timely remediation and mitigation of deficiencies.

• Standardize and maintain risk management processes and control documentation (flowcharts, process narratives, RCMs, SoD matrices), and deliver targeted training on internal controls and compliance.

• Support ongoing regulatory compliance (SOx, EBA, GDPR, NIS2, etc.); coordinate annual (SOx) audits to closure and manage stakeholders (Internal/External Audit and SOx team).

• 5-8 years of previous work experience in business analysis, IT auditing, corporate governance, risk management or internal controls as the first line of defense

• Experience in IT auditing and / or risk management, corporate governance, internal controls within SAP environments such as S/4HANA, ECC, GRC, BTP, PCE

• Experience in GRC tooling and governance regarding User Access Management, SoD monitoring and Emergency Access Management

• Thorough understanding of internal controls (e.g. SOX-audits, highly regulated financial environments) and experience in applying them in various business areas/functions

• Experience in AI and Process Automation, finance processes and controls, payments & e-money regulations is a plus

• Strong communication, relationship building skills, problem solving and action oriented mindset

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture;

• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

As a Software Engineer working on the backend, you have the opportunity to be responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of many areas - including our mobile apps and public website as well as internal systems and infrastructure. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a cross-functional team.

Important aspects of the job can include:

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems, with end-to-end ownership by monitoring and adjusting SLIs and SLOs.
• Solving issues with the mobile apps, website and internal systems, prioritising based on customer and business impact.
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• A/B Testing; we have thousands of experiments running at the same time, interacting with each other.
• Evaluating customer needs and coming up with ideal solutions for it; assessing different programming languages, architecture, and risks.
• Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.

We have found that people who match the following requirements are the ones who fit us best:

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Proven experience using two or more server side programming languages: Java, Python, Perl, C++, Go, Scala, etc.
• Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Previous experience with distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Javascript ecosystems (Node.js, Typescript, JSX).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience of working on products and systems at a large scale, for the benefit of either the end user or other internal engineering teams.
• Excellent communication; written and spoken.

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parental (22-weeks paid leave), grandparent, bereavement, and care leave.
• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, working from home furniture and ergonomic support, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country).
• A beautiful sustainable campus, that offers on-site meals, coffee, and snacks, multi-faith and breastfeeding rooms at the office.
• Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products, upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3, and friends & family Booking.com discount vouchers.
• Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs.
• Global Employee Assistance Program, free Headspace membership.

Inclusion has

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Role Overview

This role includes the following responsibilities:

• Identifying, shaping and bringing to life new financial products

• Enabling strategic decision making across FinTech

• Driving the development of new capabilities where needed

• Supporting commercial optimization with insights & advice

You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate the product from ideation, to investment case approval, development launch and eventual running the incubation of products once they are live - until they reach a scale big enough to hand over fully to the Product team.

The role plays on the intersection between financial services and tech, such that experience across both those domains is a big plus. Plus, we hope you are enthusiastic about Booking.com and the ways in which we can offer financial products to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Think customer first in identifying opportunities for new products and how we can best enhance our customer experience (bookers and partners)

• Apply a solid understanding of the financial services / payments landscape, including implications / opportunities for Booking.com

• Build business cases and opportunity-sizing that are supported by both internal and external data

• Project manage internal and external stakeholders during the implementation and growth phase of new Fintech products

• Apply a Product mindset in identifying opportunities and areas of improvement of Fintech products in their incubation, growth phase

• Gain understanding of the complexity & ambiguity of a topic, and apply structure to convey it in a simple manner

• Enable strategic decision making with crisp & clear communication on data driven insights and recommendations

• Be a key contributor to the team, working in close alignment with senior leaders in the team, but also with other teams across FinTech and beyond

• Be familiar with the larger ecosystem at Booking and how other business units and functions relate to the work they do

• Collaborates and is open to giving and receiving feedback with peers and direct stakeholders.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience within strategy consulting roles, mostly within the financial services and/or payments industry

• Solid expertise (3+ years experience) in financial services and / or payments

• Experience in either strategy consulting or strategic role in Tech

• Experience in managing individual contributors is preferred

• Strong project and stakeholder management skills

• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills

• Business case creation and refinement

• Ability to explain difficult concepts in simplified terms

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions

• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills

• Ability to work with ambiguity in fast changing environment

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

DPE (Digital Partner Ecosystem) aims to drive measurable impact for our accommodation partners by providing advice and support through our partner-facing digital touchpoints (Extranet, Partner Hub, email). We do this by delivering personalized, automated journeys and practical guidance across channels, offering information and support through our digital platforms. This is powered by educational and commercial content, personalized data points and insights, and hands-on actions partners can take.

The Lead Business Growth, owns driving (innovative) projects to improve our marketing capabilities and commercial actionability. Representing Digital Partner Ecosystem (DPE) by owning and continuously optimizing the rollout of strategic initiatives as part of the wider business unit objectives...

The goal of the Lead Business Growth is to validate and deliver scalable solutions that drive commercial impact, measured in product adoption and/or consistent availability, through scalable digital marketing activations and improvements in marketing tooling and automation, with a focus on innovation.

• Scope: Own the validation and scaling of growth initiatives, ensuring successful pilot outcomes are transitioned into repeatable, operationalized workflows adopted by DPE teams. Success is measured in how consistently these solutions are embedded into standard execution.

• Performance / impact: Drive measurable improvement in marketing effectiveness through validated playbooks, improved tooling, and adoption of structured activation methods. Performance is demonstrated through increased scalability, reduced manual effort, partner experience outcomes (Psat), and repeatable uplift patterns on business metrics

• Drive Performance: Identify opportunities to deliver on partner needs and turn these into solutions in our digital channels with the aim to drive (commercial) impact for partner and.

• Experiment and Delivery Backlog: Maintain and prioritise a backlog of hypotheses, experiments, and scaling actions based on expected value and feasibility. Lead delivery from validation to rollout, ensuring cross-functional alignment, clear decision-making, and integration into business-as-usual workflows.

• Tooling & Automation Improvement: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance marketing tooling and automation capabilities, ensuring improvements are integrated into long-term systems rather than manual activation work.

• Project Management: Lead complex projects, ensuring alignment with stakeholder goals and partner needs while managing technical implications and barriers. This involves fostering collaboration and alignment across teams, communicating outcomes and learnings to stakeholders, and validating, monitoring project results to drive continuous improvement.

• Drive Innovation: Collaborate with technical teams to drive innovation based on hypotheses and user stories, aiming to improve business impact, reduce time spent, and increase partner experience through technology-driven solutions.

• Collaboration: Effectively achieve your impact drivers within the scope of responsibility by fostering enhanced stakeholder collaboration. This involves actively engaging with and gaining the support of key stakeholders, including product teams, segment teams and revenue management, ensuring their alignment with performance indicators and goals to drive meaningful outcomes.

• Analytics: Conduct analysis of performance, commercial and market data to derive commercial insights and define hypotheses.

• Authority: Be seen as an authority in your craft by sharing knowledge and insights, thereby making your impact visible and positioning oneself as an expert within the business. This involves guiding, consulting, educating, and supporting team members within and outside the department.

• Voice of the Partner: Serve as the voice of partners within the organization, advocating for their needs and perspectives.

• 5+ years of work experience in Marketing, Digital Marketing or Product Marketing.

• Proven ability to design and run experiments to validate commercial and marketing hypotheses.

• Demonstrated experience taking a project from MVP to scaled implementation (not just planning or piloting).

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where solutions are not pre-defined.

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to move from strategy to hands-on execution without waiting for perfect direction.

• Data literacy and the ability to use data to build actionable insights.

• Experience working in a sizable marketing environment, preferably in a multinational B-to-B context.

• Business acumen to quickly understand Booking’s objectives, and key results, partner and consumer perspectives as well as the way all parts of the company work together to realize our ambitions.

• Strong and resilient team player with a high degree of flexibility, problem-solving and positive communication that motivates and influences the achievement of team objectives.

• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, and manage time efficiently. High performer with the ability to manage parallel tracks and expectations for project scope changes, seeing intersection points, and mitigating risks.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that changes rapidly.

• Strong and high energy team player with a high degree of flexibility and positive communication that motivates and influences achievement of team objectives.

• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, and manage time efficiently. High performer with the ability to manage parallel tracks and expectations for project scope changes, seeing intersection points, and mitigating risks.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Inclusion at Booking.com:

Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.”

We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Senior Director Financial Systems- Product & Engineering

With business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet, we’ve already built a truly global e-commerce company. But we’re not done yet. Can we provide additional flexibility for customers, mitigate more risks for partners, and build smarter integrations with payment networks to make it even easier for travelers and partners to pay and get paid across borders and in the currency of their choice? With strong leadership, financial smarts and the payment expertise you bring to the table, yes we can!

• Fintech is handling payments processes for 40+ global currencies.

• Top 5 Global payment merchants. one of the largest ecommerce merchants in any catalogue

• Global organisation with Fintech offices in London, Amsterdam and collaborating with our centre of excellence in Bangalore at Booking Holdings.

• In the western world, we are building the largest embedded finance organisation in any category.

Responsibilities:

This role will be the global functional and technical financial systems leader and reports to Metehan Soysal VP of Financial Systems at Booking and VP of Enterprise Applications at Booking Holdings. This role is located in Amsterdam and leads a team of 180 FTEs. This is a critical leadership role that will be responsible for defining the strategy and delivering a scalable financial infrastructure for areas like Payments, Billing, and Tax.

• Strategy and Planning: Develops and owns the long-term strategy and business plan for the O2C (Order to Cash), Payments, Billing, FPS (Financial Planning & Strategy), R2R (Record to Report), and Tax tracks. This must be in alignment with Financial Systems and company objectives to deliver a scalable financial infrastructure that supports long-term business needs.

• Organizational Leadership: Leads a global organization of 180 employees across multiple tracks, ensuring effective team performance, development, and succession planning.

• Execution and Delivery: Manages the end-to-end delivery, demand, and incident resolution for the assigned tracks, ensuring the successful execution of critical business initiatives and maintaining high system availability, in line with company objectives and priorities.

• Stakeholder Management: Manages relationships with senior executives/leaders across Finance and FinTech through frequent strategic alignment and persuasion, in order to collectively define and execute the vision for the company's finance & payment functions, as well as enterprise applications.

• Technology Innovation: Drives technology innovation by evaluating strategic needs and emerging technologies, aiming to provide critical business insights and enable finance transformation.

• Functional & Technical Oversight: Provides dedicated functional and technical leadership for the Financial Systems organization to mitigate decision-making bottlenecks on critical initiatives and create leadership bandwidth.

• Financial Management: Manages the financial budget for the tracks, based on the annual business plan, ensuring effective resource allocation in line with strategic priorities.

• External Relationships: Builds and manages strategic relationships with external vendors like SAP and consulting firms through commercial negotiation and quality steering, to ensure the continued delivery of technology innovation.

JOBS TO BE DONE / OBJECTIVES:

• The role directly contributes to company results by ensuring the successful execution of major business initiatives, enabling FinTech product innovation, and future-proofing the company's financial and tax compliance.

• Deliver a scalable financial infrastructure that supports long-term business needs through developing and owning the long-term strategy and business plan for key financial tracks (O2C, Payments, Billing, R2R, Tax, etc.).

• Ensure high system availability and successful execution of critical business initiatives by managing end-to-end delivery and incident resolution for assigned tracks.

• Drive change and consensus among diverse stakeholders by engaging, influencing, and managing relationships with C-suite and senior-level stakeholders.

• Lead and develop a leadership pipeline for the global organization of 350+ employees.

Ideal Experience & Skills:

• Experience & Leadership: Substantial experience leading large (80+) global Financial Systems or Enterprise Application teams, preferably in fast-moving, high-growth tech companies. Proven track record in managing senior leaders (Directors, Senior Managers) and building a strong leadership pipeline, while mentoring and developing high-performing teams.

• Technical & Domain Expertise: Deep functional and technical expertise in ERP platforms, particularly SAP S/4HANA, and its surrounding ecosystem (1st and 3rd party apps). Demonstrated experience leading large-scale financial system transformation programs and IT functional teams supporting Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), and Tax processes. Extensive experience in the fintech sector, with strong knowledge of payments, financial services, and online (CNP) payment processes, including cards and alternative methods.

• Strategic & Operational Skills: Strategic mindset with the ability to “think big” while executing with tactical precision. Skilled in developing and executing multi-year IT roadmaps aligned with business goals, driving business process re-engineering (BPR) and continuous improvement to enhance efficiency and scalability. Experienced in managing complex program budgets, vendor relationships, and SOWs for transformational projects.

• Stakeholder & Relationship Management: Proven ability to engage, influence, and manage relationships with C-suite and senior-level stakeholders, including VPs, CFOs, and Global Process Owners, ensuring successful execution of major business initiatives and compliance.

OTHER PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Strategic & Execution-Focused: Thinks strategically while cutting through complexity to focus on what matters and maximize impact.

• Data-Driven & Adaptive: Uses data, experiments, and a learning mindset to drive alignment and embrace change.

• Agile & Results-Oriented: Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments; delivers critical initiatives efficiently and sets high performance standards.

• Inclusive Leadership: Actively promotes diversity, inclusion, and diverse perspectives to build great talent and a positive culture.

• Customer-Centric: Keeps the customer at the center, advocating the core value of “Think Customer First.”

• Collaborative & Accountable: Communicates transparently, prioritizes collective goals, and models company values with a “Succeed Together” and “Own It” mindset.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Role Description:

The Connectivity Partner Growth Lead is a key role within the Connectivity Ecosystem track, part of the ABU Commercial Growth division.

This role owns a strategically important business area and is responsible for creating and managing scalable, self-service initiatives that enable our technology providers and connected accommodations to grow. You will drive their success across all lifecycle stages and foster a thriving, successful partnership.

As the Partner Growth Lead, you will be accountable for defining the annual strategy and go-to-market roadmap for key business development initiatives across different partner segments. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Setting yearly objectives and defining success metrics.

• Developing and launching new commercial & educational initiatives for partners.

• Managing partner investment funds and marketing campaigns.

• Ensuring the successful achievement of all defined goals.

A primary objective for this role is to elevate the quality and scale of our API integrations with technology providers. You will champion our vision of creating a "Seamless Experience" for our mutual accommodation partners. To achieve this, you will be responsible for the end-to-end strategy that ensures our partners are made aware of, educated on, activated with, and incentivized to build and maintain all the integrations we consider foundational to this experience.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• The role is user-focused, keeps all our different connectivity customers (providers) at the heart of everything we do in a complex technology ecosystem

• Strong interpersonal skills - a strong network of people is needed and to drive trust in order to succeed together and achieve own goals

• Experience in heavy stakeholder management environments - The role manages a wide variety of stakeholders within different crafts like tech, design, product, marketing, legal, technical support and sales

• Technology background with a focus on connectivity, APIs, cloud based models or Internet of Things - The role understands how our technology solutions and our partners software works, and ideates on new technology changes that can improve our partnership and advise our technology partners about improving their systems

• Strong leadership and communication skills - Ability to lead business impactful conversations with our connectivity partners on a C-level

• Strong background in data testing and proven analytical skills - Defines hypotheses, spots new opportunities and proves with new programme products/services incremental business with partners

• Experience in the industry of B2B technology partnerships

• Strategic thinking - balancing long-term vision with short- and medium-term goals

• Strong change and project management skills - drives change in an agile project management / product development environment - Manages proposed changes and development, able to influence to get support from other teams and lead product related discussions with both internal teams & our technology partners

• Strong work ethic; proactive, flexible and capable of working independently

• Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Solution oriented and result driven

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.