The right candidate will have substantive legal and operational experience in a broad spectrum of regulatory financial crime matters, with primary focus on economic sanctions in the EU, UK and the US. You will have experience working with senior business leaders and responding to quickly developing regulatory changes (change management experience) in a fast-paced and diverse work environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day legal advice on financial crime related matters related to EU, UK and US regulations and other sanctions regimes, UK Bribery Act, FCPA, EU AML directives and other global equivalents
- Provide assistance to develop and maintain FinCrime (along with program team) related policies, procedures and processes to ensure compliance with applicable internal, legal and regulatory standards
- Work with external (Booking Holdings Inc. and Booking Holdings Financial Services) and internal stakeholders (Payments, FinTech, Internal Audit, Legal) to drive the FinCrime Risk Management Program
- Provide advisory support to the Compliance & Ethics team by evaluating, strategizing several aspects of the FinCrime Program
- Advise on financial crime related language in contracts etc.
- Knowledge-share with several teams across the business (Legal, Operations, Product)
Provide legal legal advice on financial crime aspects to be considered for the development of new products
Ensure key stakeholders are kept apprised of relevant regulations and / or increased regulatory risk
Skills and experience required:
- 3-5 years' attorney experience, preferably in both top law firm and in-house environments and including at least two years of experience as FinCrime counsel in corporate, government or law firm environment
- Experience in payments industry, specifically in FinTech landscape a plus
- Ability to provide practical, strategic and business-oriented legal advice
- Ability to build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels of management and work within cross-functional teams to develop solutions to complex legal/business issues
- Ability to effectively manage multiple time sensitive tasks
- Must be detail-oriented and demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Strong organizational skills, quick learner with a strong work ethic and sense of initiative
- Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and simple advice and to communicate effectively with non-legal internal colleagues across our company
In addition to our day-to-day work, we actively seek opportunities for our team members to engage in the wider global legal and public affairs communities through speaking engagements, training programs, and association memberships. Some of our lawyers are Board members of Consumer Law associations, Competition Law associations, Privacy associations, etc. We also believe in actively engaging with stakeholders to share our insights on policies affecting the travel experience and how travel tech innovations can fuel the digital transformation of the travel industry. For example, we recently launched Booking.com’s Public Affairs blog, where we publish our position on key policy issues ( ).
As a team, we believe in:
- Integrating with the Business and Legal having a “seat at the table”: we are decision makers that can have a real impact on Booking.com’s future
- Booking’s mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world. Travel helps people become more open minded, curious and flexible
- Allowing members of our teams to experience different areas or, if they want to be specialists, give them the tools to become more effective in their jobs
- Providing holistic legal and public affairs advice; our team should not work in silos
- Always looking for better ways of doing things, improving our Legal Operations function, innovating and exchanging best practices
- Accepting that it's OK to make mistakes as long as we learn from them
- Having a sense of humour and having fun working together; we are a team that likes to collaborate and share in joys and challenges together!
Pre-Employment Screening
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