Booking Holdings Romania - Ivalua Specialist

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 five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable.

Role description

You will be part of a sub team within the Procurement department. You will be working closely with Procurement Operations, Sourcing, Vendor Enablement and Financial Systems teams as well as be responsible for maintaining the system tools and enhancing Ivalua end user experience. This role will also be a key global support for internal and external stakeholders.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the business by solving technical errors and liaising with the buyers and approvers when required
• Work closely with the main stakeholders to identify and address any issues or bottlenecks in the Ivalua system promptly, aiming for timely resolution and implementing preventive measures to mitigate future occurrences
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and enhance Ivalua end user experience
• Collaborate with Financial System Team by performing UAT Testing to implement system upgrades and changes
• Maintain the Approval Matrix and monitor the integration error queue in order to meet our SOX controls
• Act as a point of contact for performing analysis and providing reporting to the business
• Work closely with the Financial System team for sprint planning and ensure appropriate communication is being shared with the business
• Ticketing system ownership, proactively monitor the queue and respond the requests according to the SLA
• Support the performance of SOX and non-SOX controls and ensure Procurement Policies and documented Procedures are enforced

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 1 - 3 years proven experience as Technical / System Administrator, within Ivalua S2P platform is advantageous
• S2P / P2P Procurement knowledge would be an advantage
• Knowledge of internal and external accounting standards and guidelines including compliance and SOX controls
• Proficient in both spoken and written English
• Strong spoken and written communication skills
• Proactive attitude and ownership skills
• Comfortability learning new software/tools with the minimal supervision
• Ability to multitask and adapt to the situation
• Attention to detail, experience with dealing with high volumes of data in accordance with the specific instructions
• Previous experience with data validation and analysis, system integration errors required
• Systems Knowledge : SAP, Ivalua, Procurement Tool and or any other system is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• 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.

Pre-Employment Screening:

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.