IT Risk Officer - Risk Governance

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

About the role

The IT Risk & Compliance Officer is responsible for partnering with risk owners throughout the Tech business function and other business units to design and maintain internal controls in line with our risk appetite and to maintain the quality of our processes. The role requires to work closely with stakeholders from multiple departments and to have a strong big picture focus, but be able to zoom in and out of the details to ensure full process understanding. 

Responsibilities and skills required for the IT Risk Officer role are tightly linked to the Capability Area they work for, in Risk Management (focus on risk identification, analysis and treatment), Risk Governance & Project Management (focus on policy governance), or Third Party Risk Management & Customer Trust (focus on 3rd party risk).

The IT Risk & Compliance Officer role requires solid stakeholder management skills, and to be comfortable with challenging risk owners to come up with robust, scalable solutions which mitigate key risks while enabling successful business operations.

B.responsible

Tasks and responsibilities will vary depending on the Capability Area:

Risk Management

Support risk owners to design controls that mitigate any relevant risks all the way through to implementation and monitoring
Provide advice on control design that is both sustainable and right sized (i.e. a simple solution for a simple problem, no overengineering)
Coordinate new requests from the business functions and units for support with controls
Participate in sprint planning sessions from development teams to support risk identification, assessment and treatment during the development lifecycle
Assist in the development and leading of regular training/awareness programs to train and educate risk owners on internal controls topics
Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs, while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the control environment

Risk Governance & Project Management

Lead the IT policy lifecycle management including the design, implementation and adoption of policies, standards and guidelines in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy and regulatory compliance
Build knowledge of internal controls, systems and process landscape to enable clear understanding of impact from IT policies and standards
Manage exceptions to IT policies and standards
Lead Risk Governance processes together with stakeholders
Keep cyber risks inventoried and updated
Provide inhouse consulting as SME to strategic programs

Third Party Risk and Customer Trust

Conduct third-party due diligence
Perform privacy and information security risk assessments at third parties
Identify opportunities to position data privacy and security not just as a risk management issue, but as a potential source of competitive advantage improving brand-building and corporate reputation

IT Compliance monitoring

Build knowledge of internal controls, systems and process landscape to enable clear understanding of impact and Lead Initiative affecting wider organizations
Provide advice on control design that is both sustainable and right sized (i.e. a simple solution for a simple problem, no overengineering)
Be able to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time
Support IT Risk and Compliance analysts when specific expertise is required
Control mapping of internal control to industry frameworks and best practices
Reporting on control execution, coverage, KPI and issues through booking reporting and dashboarding tools (Jira, Tableau, ServiceNow)

B.skilled

Bachelor Degree
Broad Job Knowledge ( 5 years)
Work experience in business analysis, auditing, corporate governance, risk management or internal controls
Ability to develop solid relationships with business partners in order to drive the adoption of the risk management culture
Thorough technical understanding of internal control requirements and design and experience in applying them in various businesses
Able to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time
Be flexible and agile in response to the change in business, change in stakeholder expectations and/or change in regulatory/operating environment 
Strong independent contributor, while still a strong team player

B.offered

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
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package 
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users


Booking Holdings 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.