דרושים Vp Tax ב-Booking ב-Netherlands, Amsterdam

An individual contributor role assigned to support a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) who is assigned to one or more Business Units (BU). The role is an embedded Security, Safety, & Fraud (SS&F) analyst responsible for supporting the BISO in driving the SS&F strategy within each BU; partnering with SS&F to support delivery of products/tools/services that are fit for purpose. Within the BU, the BSA works primarily with the Tech and Product teams with the aim to improve the security, safety, and fraud risk posture of the BU. The role supports BU’s adoption of the SS&F capabilities and standards and the continuous improvement of the latter based on BU feedback and requirements. By identifying BU gaps and risks related to SS&F, the BSA supports the BISO in enabling the business to achieve their goals while addressing their most relevant risks.

Role Description:

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

Responsible for:

• • Assessing, identifying, reporting, and monitoring the SS&F risks within the BU by supporting the BISO in periodic and relevant insights to BU leadership that drive risk based decisions and prioritization of actions

  • Champions and promotes SS&F awareness in the BU

  • Support in building productive relationships with business stakeholders

  • Representing the BISO at meetings and act on behalf of as requested

Consulted for:

• • Support the BISO in delivering operational and tactical security improvements in line with the overarching security strategy while supporting the Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

  • Understanding and keeping up to date with BU specific SS&F related security regulations

  • BU and SS&F collaboration support

  • Feedback and BU requirements towards the SS&F capabilities and services for continuous improvement

  • Support and analysis of SS&F risk acceptances

  • Support and analysis of SS&F risk remediation and mitigation activities

  • Support and analysis during SS&F incidents management

Experience & Skills:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in one or more of Cyber Security, Safety, and Fraud topics

• Understanding of technology processes and practices (e.g., change management, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, Identity and Access Management, IR, Incident Management, Data Governance)

• Experience in IT Risk Management

• Excellent English communication skills

• Experience in stakeholder management and ability to effectively engage and influence individual technical staff

• Creative problem-solver able to communicate concepts to a limited audience and create clarity

• Additional cybersecurity qualifications such as CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, AIGP, or similar are an advantage

• Organized, with attention to detail and execution skills

• Experience in the analysis and assessment of security programs

• Good understanding of security best practices and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, and PCI DSS

• Experience participating in security, safety, and fraud incident response activities

Other personal characteristics:

• Open minded, respectful, high emotional intelligence, and collaborative work style

• Comfortable with ambiguity, creating clarity

• Achieving data driven, collaborative solutions

• Good communication, consulting, and influencing skills

• Integrity and independent thinking

• Thrives in fast-paced, demanding environments

• Learning demeanor, transparent behaviour

• Good problem solver able to roll up sleeves to get things done

• Committed to building a diverse, inclusive work environment

• Good time management and organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

• Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam, named as the best city in the World for living a happy and healthy life

• International and diverse company culture;

• Possibility to innovate through multiple company programs (e.g. Hackathon, twice a year)

• Opportunity to work in an Agile, startup-like development environment

• Excellent support for personal development through online platforms

• Mentorship programs to accelerate skills growth

• Contribute to the company tech transformational journey toward a more modern tech stack

• Inclusive leadership, valuing the opinion of everyone independently of their career level

• Great compensation package

• Multiple perks that will make your life easier (e.g. discounts to local shops, discounted gym membership, etc.)

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.

• Lead, mentor and inspire a group of highly experienced engineers

• Drive innovation through strategic prioritization and technical subject matter expertise

• Partner with the senior leaders in Financial Systems in shaping the product vision, creating the delivery roadmaps, and managing their execution across a complex set of internal and external dependencies.

• Influence senior stakeholders across the business to reach and maintain strategic and tactical alignment

• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating

• Guide software development delivery, quality and practices within your team

• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team and foster a great culture. Advocate of engineering leadership and technical quality.

• Ensure delivery by tracking team health metrics and KPIs, monitoring roadmap progress, identifying dependencies and and removing blockers

• Technical subject matter expertise and thorough hands-on experience in the delivery of Full stack engineering using JAVA, React and/or equivalent technologies

• Strong technical skills working with integration technologies, data pipelines like Kafka or equivalent technologies

• Experience in High volume transaction processing/Flow (> 50M per Day)

• Experience with Building scalable platforms on AWS with modern architecture

• Experience with Tax platforms/Tax Products/Billing/Charging (mandatory)

• Understanding of Enterprise architecture leveraging ERP platforms (eg. SAP S/4) with inhouse built and external systems interfacing together.

• Experience in shaping and leading a software engineering function across multiple products or business areas (3+ years as a senior manager in a Tech company)

• Natural leader and communicator who is collaborative and builds great relationships

• Experience of leading a team directly as well as through others

• A knack for connecting the dots and collaborating with various stakeholders to prioritize what maximizes business value

• Experience in the Fintech domain would definitely be an advantage.

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)

• 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.

When we use our Values to make decisions, we make a deliberate choice to focus on what is important. 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.

• Think customer first. We obsess about adding value for our customers - guests, partners, colleagues - to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

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

• Learn forever. We are resilient, take time to reflect, and seek to learn – from colleagues, from the outside world and from our failures.

• Succeed together. We celebrate team success, through making connections, building trust and valuing the diverse perspectives of others.

• Do the right thing. We get the right results the right way. For each other, our communities and the world around us.

CMO, Arjan Dijk
CTO, Rob Francis
Fintech, Daniel Marovitz
ABU, Matthias Schmidt
Trips, Eve Henrikson
Marketplace, Natasha ten Cate
US, Ben Harrell
CS, Paul Downham

Profile VP Tax

The role will reside in Amsterdam. You will be a visible leader, trusted partner to the business leaders, accountable for addressing current and future business needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Have end to end responsibility for all tax operations, processes and compliance within the Company. This includes working with business & tech functions and Booking Holdings to develop the appropriate processes and systems that support the company’s compliance.

• Advise Booking.com senior leadership on tax-related matters around key business initiatives, and contribute to the strategic direction of the company. Also, interacts with Booking Holdings and other brands where relevant.

• Support business growth by encouraging his/her team to have a deep focus and understanding of the business’ needs, and develop and validate innovative (tax) solutions.

• Collaborate closely and partner with management and leadership of other departments to ensure alignment in strategy on various business and product matters and recommend practical, compliant solutions.

• Define the priorities for the tax department taking into account global interdependencies from both a Booking.com and Booking Holdings point of view.

• Communicate regularly with SVP Tax of Booking Holdings about tax audits and litigation, business initiatives and tax law changes which could have a significant tax impact on the company. Coordinate with SVP Tax on communications to Booking Holdings/Booking.com Senior Management and the Board on significant tax matters.

• Monitor global tax developments that can impact Booking.com (corporate income tax, VAT/GST, withholding tax and other) and take appropriate actions that are deemed necessary.

• Own, implement and oversee tax related internal controls ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. Oversee quarterly financial reporting incl tax accounting, in alignment with the Accounting department

• Lead and/or monitor the team’s procedures, discussions and negotiations with numerous tax authorities around the globe, in full alignment with SVP Tax of Booking Holdings. This includes working with the Legal department when necessary.

• Actively manage or oversee all tax audits and litigation and work closely with outside advisors, Legal, Booking Holdings Tax and Booking.com Technical Accounting team to determine the potential financial statement impact of significant tax assessments and litigation as well as disclosure, if needed, in the company’s external filings.

• Make sure that the company complies with all local tax regulations, including reporting requirements.

• Ensure the tax team works effectively and in line with the Company’s values, principles and priorities.

• Own the professional development of the Tax Department, actively upskilling the team to deal with an increasingly complex environment.

• Manage, develop and coach a team of employees.

20+ years of experience in Tax roles

A senior Tax leader who brings substantial knowledge of all tax matters

Masters degree

Or other specialized diploma in Tax

10+ years of leadership experience of managing large, high performing teams

This is considered as a plus.

Driving Results

• Responds resourcefully, flexibly, and positively when faced with new challenges and demands. Effectively deals with the stress and complexities of various situations. Moves forward productively under conditions of change or uncertainty

• Demonstrates and fosters a sense of urgency, a “can-do” spirit, a sense of optimism, ownership, and strong commitment to achieving goals and organisational success.

• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and a commitment to achieving meaningful results.

• Facilitates alignment on critical decisions related to the Connected Trip strategy by involving relevant stakeholders, gathering input, and building consensus

• Reviews performance and progress on a regular basis to ensure teams are achieving results.

• Tests to see if goals are sufficiently challenging and implements corrective action based on deviations.

Building relationships, Collaborating and Influencing

• Proven ability to build trust based senior relationships

• Effective stakeholder management practitioner and influencer, building relationships at both the team and executive levels

• Takes time to identify and engage stakeholders, facilitating effective decision making alignment and/or understanding

• Identifies opportunities to build and enhance relationships that help others achieve their objectives, reaching out proactively.

• Promotes collaboration and partnership among multiple parties inside the organisation

• Orchestrates events for key players and stakeholders to engage in dialogue and drive effective decision making , plays a leading and visible role in those events

• Fosters a culture where people feel valued and respected and leverages even difficult or tense circumstances to enhance relationships.

• Possesses strong conflict resolution skills to navigate and resolve disagreements and disputes among team members, departments, or stakeholders, fostering an atmosphere of cooperation.

• Demonstrates proficiency in negotiation techniques to bring parties with varying interests to a mutually beneficial agreement, ultimately contributing to the success of the Connected Trip initiative.

Leading Change

• Publicly identifies needed changes or directions that need adjustment, challenges assumptions and norms.

• Demonstrates the ability to “think big” and simultaneously understand and appreciate the details necessary to operationalize overarching strategies and goals

• Demonstrates the ability to make sense of complex issues and ambiguous situations.

• Challenges assumptions about “the way things are done”.

• Communicates explicitly what must change, why changes are necessary, and possible outcomes and costs.

• Adjusts communication style to the audience to help them understand and accept the change.

• Encourages people to support and propose changes and ideas.

Excellent Communication Skills

Maintains an open flow of two-way communication, exhibiting strong verbal, written and presentation skills, stating expectations clearly and being visible to all stakeholders. A person with strong intellectual capabilities who can hold his/her own yet support the ultimate decision. A creative thinker who is willing to acknowledge the past and build forward.

Ego Maturity

A highly motivated, seasoned and mature operating executive, with high confidence in his/her superior professional skills and ability to drive decisions. A balanced leader with an appropriate blend of humility, calm demeanor and professional will to win.

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.

Due to the rapid changes in the organization, the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You should be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

Key Responsibilities

• Support (Senior) Tax Managers translating business activities into tax implications and translating tax developments into business implications
• Work on tax challenges in different areas of content and geographies for various tax disciplines
• Support (Senior) Tax Managers with their end to end responsibility from scoping the issue/challenge to the overall solution, including stakeholder management, driving issue resolution, initiating change management and monitoring
• Conduct tax technical analysis for tax challenges and (massive) data sets

B.Skilled

• University degree in Tax Economics/Law or similar degree

• Between 1 to 4 years of working experience within an international environment

• Strong research skills to analyze new tax legislation and implications and experience working with (massive) data sets

• Adaptability to stay updated with tax laws and technologies

• Analytical and curious mindset with regard to data analysis and technology (e.g. AI tools)

• Time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, comfortable working in a fast turnaround environment

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Open to feedback and always looking for ways to improve own performance

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

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 open position at Booking.com.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a , 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

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.