דרושים Director Data & Analytics ב-Booking ב-Netherlands, Amsterdam

You will be responsible for improving our team's workflows through process standardization, automation of financial reporting, and transformation projects aimed at enhancing planning and control processes and adopting digital reporting.

Lastly, you will also work on cost optimization projects. This will require close cooperation with FP&A peers, the Business, and relevant teams outside of FP&A.

Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role will evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and challenge yourself to take on additional projects and responsibilities as they present themselves.

Responsibilities:

• Advise and influence senior stakeholders—including those at Senior Director/business unit level—by regularly providing strategic input and shaping complex business decisions.

• Lead the development and execution of financial planning processes, including annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-term strategic plans;

• Conduct comprehensive financial analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks, providing actionable insights to senior management for decision-making;

• Collaborate with the business to identify what drives (financial) success for Finance and Strategy and develop key performance indicators and metrics for these drivers;

• Clearly present analyses and reports to business partners for informed decisions. Tailor communications for senior audiences (Directors, VPs) and lead negotiations on competing business interests.

• Initiate and oversee cross-functional process or tooling improvements, drive process automation, and own transformation projects with broad organizational impact.

• Lead deliverables with medium-to-high business impact and complexity, influencing business outcomes across multiple teams, tracks, and the broader Business Unit.

• Work with a high level of autonomy, taking responsibility for deliverables with minimal guidance, and routinely review and approve the work of colleagues.

• Own large, cross-functional projects and initiatives that drive operational and tactical advancement of the organization’s business objectives.

• Work with other business controllers, accounting and business teams on month-end close to accurately report business results and provide insightful explanatory commentary;

• Actively contribute to the Business Controller Craft community, sharing best practices, aligning on standardized processes and participating in regular meetings and retros to foster innovation and alignment across teams.

Skills and experience required:

• 5+ years of relevant progressive experience within FP&A / Business Control ;

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or other related field;

• Additional professional certification (CPA/RC/CIMA/CMA) or studying is a plus;

• Advanced knowledge of Excel required, Google Sheets is a plus;

• Financial modelling and analytical skills;

• Ability to business partner with demanding stakeholders;

• You are able to take ownership of tasks/processes;

• Ability to listen, work with and proactively advise business partners;

• Sees the headlines whilst having attention for the details;

• Is able to explain economics and Finance to non-Finance business partners in a simple, understandable manner;

• Integrate strategic oversight and dig into details with granular financial analysis to resolve intricate issues.

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English;

• Strong team player while being able to work independently;

• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and in an unstructured environment;

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. Our Total Rewards are striven to make it easier for you to experience all that life has to offer—all the messy, beautiful, and joyful bits—on your terms. So you can focus on what really matters. We offer competitive compensation as well as thoughtful, valuable, and even fun benefits which include:

• Health, life, and disability insurance*

• 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 for yourself, friends, and family, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

• Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs, and a complimentary Headspace membership

• On-site meals, coffee, and snacks, including healthy and vegan options, daily

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.

The Streaming & Data Movement track delivers and operates the foundational services that power real-time data processing, including:

• Streaming solutions (powered by Kafka, Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud), both on-premise and on public cloud, to our infrastructure and product development teams;

• Stream Processing Platform (powered by Apache Flink) for large-scale stream processing and event-driven applications;

• Snapshot Ingestion and Change Data Capture (CDC) for reliable, scalable, and compliant movement of data from source systems into our data ecosystem;

• Self-service APIs, developer tooling, and governance layers that ensure reliability, discoverability, and compliance at scale

As a Group Product Manager for the Streaming & Data Movement, you will shape and execute the strategy for how data flows through Booking.com. You will lead multiple product teams responsible for the ingestion, processing, and propagation of critical business data, ensuring our data infrastructure remains scalable, cost-efficient, and compliant.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

As a Group Product Manager for ADS - Streaming and Data Movement, you will:

• Influence decision-making at all levels of the company. Define product strategy and a multi-year roadmap for Streaming (& Flink) and Ingestion platforms, including Snapshot Ingestion and Change Data Capture, balancing innovation with resilience, cost efficiency, and compliance.

• Lead a team of Product Managers and partner closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to deliver robust infrastructure and services.

• Own a suite of tooling, integrations and IaC templates that enable scalability, reliability, and governance for data at Booking.com.

• Drive modernisation through adoption and enablement of cloud services, ensuring smooth migration journeys and establishing a “shift left” approach to governance and quality.

• Translate business and developer needs into product initiatives, using qualitative insights, quantitative data, and stakeholder feedback.

• Evangelize modern data practices across Booking.com, ensuring teams understand how to best leverage ADS services.

• Define clear success metrics and track them regularly to ensure services are reliable, cost-effective, and meeting customer needs.

• Collaborate across departments to align data infrastructure with broader company priorities.

• Coach and grow Product Managers, ensuring excellence in product craft and leadership across your domain.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 6 - 9 years of directly applicable internet product management experience.

• Bachelors required. Masters in the relevant field is highly desired.

• Minimum of 2 -3 years of successfully managing and mentoring a team of product managers as direct reports.

• Strong experience in data streaming, cloud platforms, or infrastructure services at scale (Kafka, Flink, CDC, Debezium, Confluent Cloud, etc.).

• Experience managing various types of resources, making trade-offs and prioritizing as if managing your own business.

• Creativity and curiosity - A creative problem solver with a deep curiosity about our business and product.

• Excellent communication skills - Being able to communicate efficiently both strategic vision and specific details to various stakeholders, from senior leadership to individual project members. Being able to write clear and concise product requirements, status updates and product results.

• Strong analytical skills - Able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues.

• Strong organizational and project management skills - Someone with responsibility to ensure multiple projects are completed in an appropriate and timely manner. Experience with agile methodologies is highly preferred.

• Ability to thrive to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment with multiple responsibilities.

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential.

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

• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe

• 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

• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

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.

Fellow FinTech Product - Director

When Values are made explicit, they provide clarity on what “good” looks like. And when they are shared, they build unity in a group. They build culture.

Own it. We deliver on our promises, make informed decisions and prioritize to get the important things done today.

Key Responsibilities

• The role is focused on product discovery across Fintech (Product)/ company in an environment with significantly high levels of complexity and risks
• Manages the end-to-end delivery of the product vision, in line with company objectives and priorities, to ensure the successful approach and execution of critical business initiatives
• Manages relationships with senior executives/leaders across Finance and FinTech, through frequent strategic alignment and persuasion, in order to collectively define, decide and execute the strategy for the company's strategic programs
• Responsible for maintaining a prioritization framework that facilitates transparent and simple decision-making on priorities and sequencing to maximize impact on customer needs, product quality, business value while balancing technical feasibility
• Hold ultimate decision rights and accountability on process and content driven choices regarding the cross area programs to ensure velocity and clarity, both in discovery as well as in execution
• Functionally lead multiple tracks (3 or 4 tracks) within different areas in Fintech Product to align on program approach, execution of work and manage dependencies Build roadmaps, define success metrics for the cross area initiatives, and track them on a regular basis to ensure that all projects and existing functionality are moving towards our defined goals
• Serves as single point of contact both within the FP organization as well as for the broader Booking organization for the defined strategic programs

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

• Product leadership: Significant years (12+) of Product leadership experience within high traffic sites (100,000+ visitors per day), preferably global e-commerce or marketplace companies
• Fintech Experience: Subject matter expertise in the Fintech industry is a MUST (minimum 5 years), market, trends, PSPs, solutions specifically on the consumer or partner payments aspect of the industry, from the UX to the mechanics of global acquiring and money movements.
• Senior management alignment: Proven experience with business senior management alignment and collaboration across different BUs and locations, Including payments compliance, payments fraud, payments legal team.
• Expert Regulatory Analysis: Understand payment regulation (e.g., PSD2, specific country mandates) and analyze its complex impact on Booking.com’s business model and operations.
• Expert Problem Solver - ability to identify and analyze complex issues in the field of Payments, systems and regulation, by applying structured (data) analysis, diagnose problems, and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues.
• Expert in Fintech Product Discovery - ability to lead and execute comprehensive product discovery processes in the area of payments, including market research, user needs analysis, competitive landscape assessment, and technical feasibility studies, to identify new opportunities and define the right product strategies
• Expert in influencing - ability to respectfully, honestly and sensitively persuade others across all levels of the business to get involved with or take the preferred view of an objective, solution or other initiative, by using storytelling techniques and applying emotional intelligence, adapting the approach according to personality type and preferred working style
• Expert communication skills - being able to communicate efficiently both strategic vision and specific details to various stakeholders, from senior leadership to individual project members.
• Being able to write clear and concise product requirements, status updates and product results
• Strong organizational and project management skills - someone with responsibility to ensure large complex programs are completed in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Results driven - ability to thrive and work in a fast-paced, results drive environment with multiple responsibilities
• Mentoring, coaching and leadership experience

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.

A successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Technical knowledge: Solid understanding of enterprise data technology and machine learning at scale

• Risk management: Experience in developing compliance solutions which are resistant against degradation over time, are documented and can be monitored and tested

• Strategic thinking: Ability to think beyond quick wins and perceive long-term opportunities for broad-based risk reduction

• Customer centricity: Keeping the customer's best interests at heart, both in terms of the protection of their privacy as well as the usability of our products and services

• People leadership: Inspiring, coaching and supporting your team members, to allow them to excel and grow

• Cross-functional mindset: Willingness to break through silos, collaborate across teams and departments and pitch in when needed to ensure overall mission success

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support the business with in-depth legal review, advice and guidance on data protection and data privacy issues and/or risks with any current or potential new initiatives

• Serve as the primary privacy legal SPoC for all matters arising from the Data, Technology and Customer Service functions in the company

• Lead a team that serves as the foremost experts in the privacy legal function when it comes to data governance and technology

• Lead the retention & deletion efforts at Booking.com

• Support strategic, enterprise-wide priorities to mature our data governance and privacy control landscape

• Engage with other Legal & Public Affairs teams and stakeholders to ensure the Legal function speaks with one voice

• Constantly (re)prioritize team workload to adapt to changing circumstances

• Partnering on review, advice and approval of data sharing use cases, data protection and privacy guidance, policies and procedures for the business

• Exercise people management responsibilities, such as performance management and coaching; be accountable for team performance

Qualification & Skills:

• Bachelor degree (Master’s Degree / Specialised Diploma is an advantage) and admission to practise in at least one jurisdiction
• 8-12 years experience in a reputable law firm or in-house team

• EU, UK or US law degree

• A Batchelors’ and/or Masters’ Degree, and a legal professional qualification

• Native or fluent English speaking and writing skills

• Knowledge and experience in data protection law; a CIPP/E / CIPT (or similar) certification is preferred

• A deep understanding of GDPR and the e-Privacy Directive how this applies to enterprise and consumer-facing technology; knowledge of DMA/DSA and AI Act is preferred

• Ability to be the “voice of reason” in crisis situations, to quickly respond to issues at hand and to prioritise effectively, with a “customer first” mindset

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral), attention to detail, organizational and project management skills and ability to meet deadlines, prioritising appropriately

• Adaptable, ready to embrace change in order to meet evolving business needs, work in ambiguous situations and under pressure, and learn from mistakes

• Strong ability to lead and inspire a team

• Demonstrated cross-functional project leadership and commercial acumen, with ability to balance risk with business objectives

• Experience in management of and impactful communication with senior stakeholders, effectively communicating complex ideas and projects simply and succinctly

• In-depth understanding of the data and privacy issues that commonly arise in the technology and data space, along with ability to quickly learn and grasp the importance of new and emerging issues and manage processes from inception to completion

• Strong collaborative, professional approach; able to succeed in and lead diverse, multidisciplinary, multicultural teams

• High proficiency in productivity software, and AI platform usage, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Deadline for applications is21 November 2025.

Further traits look for:

• Alignment with Booking.com’s values (Customer First, Succeed Together, Own It, Learn Forever, Do the Right Thing).

• Curiosity, flexibility, and a creative, pragmatic approach to problem-solving.

• Confidence with collaboration.

• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Proactivity, resilience, and a drive to deliver results.

• Strong judgment with attention to both the big picture and key details.

• Courage to take a stance and make tough decisions.

• Team-oriented, self-aware, and a good listener.

• Agility in prioritizing and meeting deadlines.

• Forward-thinking, with a focus on emerging legal and policy issues.

As a team, we believe in:

• Being integral to decision-making, shaping Booking.com’s future.

• Supporting Booking's mission to make travel accessible, fostering openness and curiosity.

• Offering opportunities for team members to explore new areas or specialize.

• Providing holistic, integrated legal and public affairs advice.

• Continuously improving Legal Operations, innovating, and sharing best practices.

• Learning from mistakes and embracing growth.

• Working collaboratively with a sense of humor and enjoying the journey together!

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:

• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Acumen:
• Maintain a fundamental understanding of the Booking.com business, industry news and risk best practices and apply that knowledge in the context of your core areas of responsibility.
• Critical Thinking:
• Identify and design solutions in a wide range of situations, and proactively propose concrete improvement plans.
• Objective Setting, Prioritization & Task Management:
• Independently structure and execute work, decide on priority areas and output fitting the overarching objectives and priorities. Deliver in line within agreed timelines and escalate issues to the appropriate level and roles within the organization where needed.
• Attention to Detail:
• Produce high quality, accurate output across a broad range of topics, with limited review and oversight required.
• Result Orientation:
• Work independently and proactively to deliver the right results for specific objectives and deliverables in line with personal and company values whilst influencing stakeholders in order to meet timelines and prioritize critical activities.
• Effective Communication & Presentation Skills:
• Effectively and clearly communicate and present information relating to core responsibilities, tailor messages and explain (technical) concepts to stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions.
• Organize and run larger meetings in a clear, structured and outcome-oriented manner.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing:
• Independently identify, develop and grow relationships with key stakeholders to build and maintain a wide network within the coverage area, mostly at mid-level but also including key senior stakeholders for a bilateral flow of information.
• Align with stakeholders on impact beyond their team, respectfully challenging and influencing others to assume appropriate roles and responsibilities by adopting stakeholder management and influencing techniques.
• Confidently and independently navigate tricky discussions, incorporating Manager input around escalations, approach or blockers where needed.
• People Management:
• Provide constructive feedback to peers and incorporate received feedback into personal development goals.
• May provide mentoring and task oversight to more junior staff or external consultants.
• Support hiring process.
• Operational & Technical Expertise:
• Apply a comprehensive understanding to processes, systems and/or products within your coverage area.
• Display general understanding of the impact on the wider process and/or system landscape.
• Seek manager input for in-depth expertise.
• Risk Landscape Awareness:
• Maintain awareness or knowledge of the broader internal risk landscape across one or more business areas as well as external developments.
• Adopt a business need centric and user friendly approach to influence business stakeholders to take informed decisions in line with the risk capacity, risk appetite and risk tolerance of Booking.com.
• Risk & Governance Advisory:
• Provide input to the development of methodologies throughout the risk management lifecycle.
• Advice stakeholders in ongoing risk and compliance work within your dedicated area(s).
• Risk Identification & Assessment:
• Identify and appropriately assess risks in line with the team's frameworks and methodologies.
• Document risk assessment outcomes, including clear description of the risk, perceived level of risk and considerations for risk treatment, tailored to the topic at hand, with limited guidance and review required.
• Risk Treatment:
• Independently support control design and/or assurance activities and work with control owners to prepare controls for approval.
• Coordinate audit activities including support to close any control deficiencies identified.
• Work across teams/projects/BUs and ensure risks are appropriately mitigated.
• Develop, select and implement risk treatment strategies, proposing alternative risk treatment options where needed.

Communication.Stakeholder

• Process/Control owners (combination of directors, managers, team leaders and individual contributors)
• Subject Matters Experts (SME's) e.g. Finance, Fintech, Fraud, Legal, Security, etc.
• Other Internal stakeholders in Accommodations (i.a. CS, PS, Product), Trips, Finance, FinTech, Legal, Marketing, People, Strategy and Corporate Development and Technology (i.a. Security, Infrastructure)
• Internal & External Audit
• Risk & Control team

Communication.Type

• Persuasion / CooperationPartner with business stakeholders by: providing guidance and support in ongoing compliance;providing guidance and support in identifying risks and control gaps and, designing and implementing appropriate controls;providing clear instructions on expected stakeholder contributions and ensure follow up;facilitating and participating in cross functional groups for activities related to the risk management lifecycle;presenting and advising on standardized methodologies, processes and documentation;maintaining a business centric approach.
• Information and CooperationInform SMEs on:risk areas in need of SME input;control design and implementation;work closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• Cooperation Support Internal and External audit teams to ensure that remediation plans are implemented on a timely basis for any deficiencies foundSupport SOX, PCI and other audit cycles
• Information and CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.

Communication.Frequency

• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous

Level of Education.Level of Education

• Bachelor degree
• Master degree

Level of Education.Description

• Alternatively compensating years of experience (3 to 5 years in addition to below)
• Preferred

Years of relevant Job Knowledge.Years of relevant Job Knowledge

• Advanced Knowledge (5 - 8 years)

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

• Qualities / Soft Skills:
• Enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible work attitude
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage workload, work under pressure and deliver on timelines
• Handle multiple tasks, of varying and often complex content, generally at the same/similar time
• Have the ability to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time
• Strongly process, problem solving and action oriented
• Curious and proactive in the assessment and challenge of risks
• Strong team player
• Advanced communication skills and ability to actively listen
• Strong relationship building skills
• High level of integrity, confidentiality & professionalism
• Requirements of special knowledge/ Hard Skills:
• Advanced (technical) understanding of and experience with Risk Management, Compliance, Internal controls , control procedures, automation, monitoring, testing, collecting evidence and remediation activities
• Experience with large e-commerce or tech companies is advantageous
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, or similar certification is advantageous
• Project management skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• For Business Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• Business analysis
• Auditing
• Corporate governance
• Finance concepts and processes
• SOx integration
• AML/ CFT framework, GDPR, PCI, SOx
• Fundamental understanding of below IT expertise fields.
• For IT Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• IT Risk management and IT Governance
• IT Security concepts and processes
• (IT) Frameworks like ITGC, COSO, NIST
• DevOps tools like Puppet, Jenkins, Git, Docker, or Kubernetes
• JIRA
• Fundamental understanding of above Business expertise fields.

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:

You will play a key role to discover causal relationships in a wide variety of travel products and customers, challenge hidden assumptions and validate the robustness of conclusions to enable confident decisions at scale with real business actions.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for fully owning the design and delivery of causal solutions based on business requirements, from idea-generation, validation, implementation to stakeholder communication. Deliver customer value with the right solutions.

• Keep a sharp eye on both the strengths and limitations of applied methodologies in real use cases. Proactively explore and research advanced statistical and causal techniques suitable for the business applications, and guide junior members as a force multiplier.

• Identify and manage stakeholders independently. Autonomously translate business challenges into proper data stories and solutions. Capable of communicating complex solutions to business stakeholders and craft peers beyond the team’s scope with in-time updates, clear visualization, accessible documentation and effective verbal language.

• Responsible for interpreting quantitative experiments and causal models to objectively guide key business decisions. Grow technical competency and spot opportunities to adopt more efficient approaches. Break down complex problems into tangible milestones to drive continuous improvements and actionable outcomes on product or strategy.

• Identify trends and behaviors from data to uncover hidden causal insights across business domains. Unlock the value of causal inference by bringing together end-to-end solutions. Learn to incorporate scalability, reproducibility and long-term orientation in the work. Embed causal techniques into the bigger picture for business takeaways and recommendations.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience working with dynamic project setup, multiple teams and stakeholders to align expectations and collaboration. Turning open-ended questions into clear milestones and agreed deliverables.

• Passionate in driving innovation for real applications with curious, humble and can-do attitudes.

• Proven ability to unpack real world causal questions, design modeling or experimentation solutions, and provide clear and actionable business recommendations with real influence.

• Experience to research and compare new methods and validate feasibility with real data. Clearly explain the reasoning behind technical choices, and open to peer review and discussions.

• Able to zoom in and out in problem solving. Willing to dig deep for exploration, and summarize reusable learnings and methodologies for scalable exploitation.

• Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences. Able to discuss complex technical problems in an accessible, business-friendly manner at all phases of the project.

• Proficient in handling large amounts of data and using causal model packages with Python, Snowpark, or R. Familiar with using causal packages. Produce well structured, readable and reproducible high quality code.

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:

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• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

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