Role Description:
As a Business Risk & Control Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the Payments Accounting and Operations process owners throughout the business to design and maintain internal controls in line with risk and to maintain the quality of our processes. You will play a significant role contributing to activities which form part of the annual SOx Program as well as assessing risks for new and ongoing initiatives within the Payments Accounting and Operations departments. You will work closely with Risk Managers and stakeholders from multiple departments. This position will require you to have a strong big picture focus, but be able to zoom in and out of the details to ensure you understand the processes fully.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Support process owners across Payments Accounting and Operations business units to develop and improve controls across various business risk areas, ensuring that the controls are:
- Adequately designed to manage the risks;
- Pragmatic and appropriate to the business;
- Well documented and conducive to audit, testing and management assurance activities.
- Responsible for facilitating SOx activities such as process walkthroughs, documentation of process narratives and Risk & Control Matrices (RACMs) and supporting the business in addressing audit requests (internal audit and external auditors)
- Responsible for facilitating identification, assessment and resolution of issues impacting the control environments of these departments
- Responsible for uploading and maintaining risks, controls and issues in our GRC platform
- Partner with IT Risk Officers and Managers for ensuring that business and IT process linkages are well understood and controls are adequately designed and documented
- Support the Business Risk Managers in Risk Assessments for new products/ initiatives
- Act as a risk ambassador within Booking.com to further enhance risk awareness and culture, including by facilitating formal training sessions
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years of previous work experience in risk management, SOX and internal controls
- Enthusiastic, self-starting and enjoys change and a dynamic environment
- Able to self-motivate, organise and take responsibility for own workload to ensure that deadlines and objectives are met
- Able to multitask and prioritize work effectively
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with challenging stakeholders
- Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken
Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, 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
