IT Risk & Compliance Officer

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 IT Compliance and Control Assurance. The Capability Area focuses on Booking IT Control Framework Management and Assurance.  

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.


B.responsible

Tasks and responsibilities of the Capability Area IT Compliance and Control Assurance: 

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)
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
Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs, while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the control environment

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.