Booking Holdings Romania - IT Risk & Compliance Intern

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 and OpenTable.

Role description

The IT Risk & Compliance Intern is responsible for partnering with risk owners throughout the Tech business function and other business units to assist in crafting and maintaining 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 The IT Risk & Compliance Intern 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 The IT Risk & Compliance Intern role requires basic stakeholder management skills and to become comfortable with challenging risk owners to come up with robust, scalable solutions that mitigate key risks while enabling successful business operations.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Be able to articulate IT controls narratives in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Assist team with the monitoring of control implementation and execution and escalation to management through the defined escalation paths, when any issues are identified.
• Promote control owner’s accountability for IT controls documentation.
• Support IT SOX & PCI control design, reporting and remediation follow ups.
• Assist with Audit support for SOX controls and PCI assessments with needed walkthroughs, documentation and follow ups.
• Assess controls to provide assurance of control performance
• Provide advice on control design that is both sustainable and right sized (i.e. a simple solution for a simple problem, no overengineering).
• Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the control environment.
• Help build knowledge of internal controls, systems and process landscape to enable clear understanding of impact.
• Assist with control mapping of internal control to industry frameworks and best practices
• Support with testing internal controls according to test plans and control frequency
• Assist with reporting on control execution, coverage and issues through booking reporting and dashboarding tools (Jira, Tableau, ServiceNow)

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Proficiency in English (mandatory) 
• Good knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets
• Basic 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.
• Basic technical understanding of internal control requirements and design and experience in applying them in various businesses.
• Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the IT control environment.
• Able to split large tasks into logical, manageable, and decoupled actions that are managed optimally and delivered on time.
• Be flexible and agile in response to the change in business, change in stakeholder expectations, and/or change in the regulatory/operating environment of B.com.
• Strong independent contributor while still a strong team player.

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.

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.