About Us

Booking Holdings India is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India 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 India 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

We are now looking for a Team Lead, Risk & Control to help build and lead a dedicated team in our CoE focused on testing of Business controls, primarily SOX. You will be responsible for managing a team directly working on testing internal controls to support SOX302 attestation.

The R&C Business SOx Team Lead is also a subject matter expert, responsible for advising the Risk team on controls design, deficiencies evaluation and improvements across multiple processes from SOx testing standpoint.

A successful risk professional requires a dynamic personality and ability to adapt in a rapidly changing environment. Furthermore, Team Lead should be able to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, be able to balance multiple competing priorities, and strive for continuous improvement to drive beneficial business outcomes.

B. responsible: key areas of responsibility will include, but are not limited to:

• Manage and provide guidance to a small team of testers and thus contribute to their development as a professional

• Take ownership for team results and provide daily leadership to a team to achieve the targets and deadlines )

• Design and execute the day-to-day testing activities of business controls, with a focus on regulatory/compliance (SOX) related risks

  • Collect, analyze, and interpret information to assess and conclude on each assigned testing area with clear concise documentation

  • Identify gaps in design and execution, and communicate issues and recommendations to R&C team and control owners

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation including process walkthrough documentation, control testing documentation and any others required

• Collaborate and partner with R&C by providing guidance and ensuring that critical SOx controls are adequately designed and documented, in order to strengthen the control environment, mitigate the company risks and support the business in achieving objectives

• Continually build partnerships with the various departments throughout the Company

• Constantly think of improvements to the existing processes and controls

• Collaborate & participate within R&C to continuously improve the R&C's capabilities and governance from SOX testing standpoint

• Collaborate with the recruitment team in the recruitment process and onboarding of new team members

B.skilled:

• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SOX audits and internal control testing as an internal/external auditor with relevant risk management and compliance experience in tech companies

• 7+ years of experience gained within compliance, internal controls, internal/external audit, including experience leading teams in an international environment

• Strong experience with designing and/or testing Business process controls ∙ Understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields and frameworks, including SOx, COSO

• Strong working knowledge of SOX

• Strong stakeholder management skills (risk/function owners, auditors)

• Strong project management skills; ability to multitask and successfully manage multiple priorities and projects

• Ability to multitask and successfully manage multiple priorities and projects

• Strong work ethic, enthusiastic, self-starting, adaptable and enjoys change in a super engaged team

• Able to make decisions, assess and resolve problems effectively

• Able to work independently & autonomously, while still being a strong team player

• Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken

• Professional certification, such as CPA/ACCA/CIA (or similar), would be an advantage

• Relevant Bachelor's degree required

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.