Compliance Analyst

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through five primary consumer-facing brands:Booking.com, Priceline,Agoda, KAYAK andOpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visitBookingHoldings.comand follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @BookingHoldings.

Booking Holdings Financial Services (hereinafter “BHFS”) provides financial services in the form of payment services and e-money products across all the brands. BHFS is committed to conducting its business in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and guidelines, with integrity and to the highest ethical standards

Job Summary

The Compliance Analyst will be part of the Compliance team and will play a role  in ensuring the organisation meets its strategic objectives under the umbrella of the Booking Holdings Inc family of Brands, with a particular focus on Ireland and EEA. Candidates are required to demonstrate a good knowledge of regulatory requirements relating to Irish e-money institutions including AML/CTF, Consumer Protection, Payment Services Regulations, Outsourcing and Safeguarding and keeping up to date on developments affecting the financial services industry. 

The Compliance Analyst will be detail-oriented and motivated to expand their compliance knowledge with a strong ability to gather, analyse and consolidate data and documentation critical to the delivery of the Compliance functions key objectives and goals. This role is essential in ensuring the Compliance team has timely, accurate information to maintain adherence to internal policies and procedures and external regulatory obligations. 

This role will report to the Director of Compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Data gathering from internal stakeholders to support compliance reviews, audits and internal reporting.

• Responsible for drafting and maintaining compliance documentation including policies and procedures, risk assessments and compliance registers. 

• Monitoring of compliance controls across the business and tracking remediation of identified issues or actions from internal compliance reviews and audits.

• Provide compliance advice and guidance for various regulatory programs across BHFS

• Provide Compliance support for Regulatory and FCRM initiatives across the business. 

• Responsible for the quarterly BHFS Compliance meetings ensuring all SME contributions are provided in a timely manner and all artefacts are delivered to the highest standard.

• Responsible for the co-ordination of all compliance function meetings ensuring all actions are documented and tracked through to completion.

• Execution of compliance monitoring reviews and identification of risks, issues and gaps in processes and creating MI reports to track resolution of any compliance findings through to completion. This will involve liaising and working with various business units across BHFS to collate all necessary information to execute the Compliance monitoring plan. 

• Act as the SME for Compliance and Regulatory requirements and deliverables and working with the BHFS Program PM’s across the various workstreams to ensure that all Compliance requirements are articulated clearly, mapped against Product Requirement Documentation and tracked through to delivery, engaging with both internal and external stakeholders across the BHI Group.  

• Support the smooth running of all activities of the Compliance function in line with the annual Compliance Plan and tracking completion of Compliance deliverables and escalation of delayed deliverables to Senior Management. 

• Responsible for creation and co-ordination of Compliance materials for Board and Committee meetings. 

• Ensuring all Compliance Policies and Procedures are reviewed and updated in line with the Policy and Procedure review cycle.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of regulations applicable to an Irish electronic money institution.

• Process mapping experience and ability to document requirements and operational processes for all Compliance related activities 

• Excellent verbal and written communication & presentation skills, and ability to deliver clear messages to all levels of the organisation.

• Experience working as part of a cross-functional team and working with all levels of management.

• Excellent communication skills, stakeholder management skills with a track record of achieving engagement and delivery from stakeholders.

• Contribute and participate in collating materials for the Compliance function for internal and external audits as well as regulatory reviews.

• Coordinate the management and monitoring performance for both internal and external teams impacting the various programs of work.

• Prioritise and deliver timely, high quality risk reporting to support the Compliance Function objectives.

• Excellent proficiency in Google sheets, docs and slides.

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

• Exercises sound judgment, acts with integrity, protects our company, customers and stakeholders.

Booking Holdings Financial Services International Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are committed to treating all employees equally, regardless of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. We believe embracing equality and diversity in the workplace benefits not just our organisation but also individual employees, departments and our customers.

This policy extends to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings Financial Services International Ltd is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.