Director of Risk & Control, Global Business Services - Booking Holdings

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Job Overview

Booking Holdings is currently undergoing a Finance Transformation initiative that will drive effective finance support for business management; promote strong governance and control in the organization; and have a world-class finance organization in terms of execution and efficiency.

As part of this newly formed organization (Global Business Services), we are hiring for a Director, Risk & Control (R&C) reporting to the VP Global Business Services with a dotted line to the VP Risk and Controls. This role will be part of a global leadership team that will focus largely on alignment and efficiency around key risk & control processes in the GBS organization as part of the Finance Transformation Journey.

The R&C Lead will be responsible for building out the GBS R&C Pillar and collaborating with the Controls Integration team . This workstream spreads across each of the verticals within our Global Business Services Organisation and the Risk & Control Lead will be responsible for defining the process governance model and the support framework to enable the embedding of Risk and Controls across all the GBS Workstreams. This will require setting clear roles & responsibilities between the Brand R&C Functions and the GBS Risk Function. R&C Lead will be the ultimate owner of the end to end risk process going forward and ensuring continuous monitoring and future improvements.

The R&C Lead will be responsible for building out the Risk & Controls Transformation vision, strategy and defining the Target Operating Model. This will include gaining a detailed understanding of the current State of the R&C functions and a global and brand level for People, Process and technologies and identify opportunities for collaboration, centralisation and automation.

Responsibilities and Duties

The R&C Lead will be responsible for:

• Developing and driving the R&C transformation enterprise strategy by partnering with and building strong relationships with CFOs, Head of Risks, Chief Accounting Officer and other executives across the Company to implement a new Global Operating Model for Risk & Control;
• Collaborate with all R&C Leadership to gain an in depth understanding of the current state of these functions at a global and brand Level for People, Process & Technology;
• Analyzing the current state and identifying opportunities for collaboration, centralisation, automation;
• Work closely with VP GBS and VP R&C to build out and deliver the GBS strategy for the R&C Functions. This will include setting the vision, assessing impact and building out the value proposition;
• Develop the GBS R&C Pillar and support framework (Change control procedures & control documentation);
• Be the risk driver for GBS current and future initiatives;
• Be the GBS Liaison with other Risk functions and owners to enable the delivery of Risk Assessments;
• Promote awareness of risk management throughout GBS whilst maintaining strong stakeholder management and thus being an articulate communicator, fostering collaboration, integrating perspectives and driving business beneficial outcomes;
• Develop and deliver training, tailored to audiences at various levels and business functions regarding impact of internal controls & compliance;
• Work with support teams & PMO ensuring the new TOM is accurately resourced, communicated, managed & deployed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or General Management (Advanced Degree or MBA preferred);
• Program or project management experience required;
• Formal continuous improvement (e.g. LEAN / Six Sigma) and/or project management (e.g. PMP) certification/ training desirable;
• 9/10+ years of progressive Finance, Accounting or related experience in a complex multinational organization;
• Strategic problem solver and sparring partner for Leadership and Management with a high degree of analytical talent and business process understanding;
• Comfortable in reporting to different levels of management, including Director and Vice President;
• Thorough understanding of internal controls (e.g. SOx-audits) and experience in applying them in various business areas/functions;
• Ability to effectively prioritize and lead workload, work under pressure and deliver on timelines;
• Enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible and agile work attitude;
• Quick thinker and confident in decision making;
• Process, problem solving and committed approach;
• Strong communication and relationship building skills;
• High level of integrity, confidentiality & professionalism;
• Ability to develop strong relationships with business partners in order to drive risk management culture and implementation;
• Previous experience at a Big 4 company is a plus;
• Experience with finance processes and/or controls is a plus;
• Experienced Project Manager;
• Booking Holdings is a Global company and the position may require up to 25% travel during normal circumstances.

Pre-Employment Screening:

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