Risk & Control Officer

As a Business Risk & Control Officer, you will be responsible for supporting Finance 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 Finance department. 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 Responsibilities

1. Support process owners across Finance to develop and improve controls across various business risk areas, ensuring that the controls are:
2. 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).
3. Responsible for facilitating identification, assessment and resolution of issues impacting the control environments of these departments.
4. Responsible for uploading and maintaining risks, controls and issues in our GRC platform.
5. 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.
6. Support the Business Risk Managers in activities such as Risk Assessments for new products/initiatives and the Annual Enterprise Risk Assessments for these departments.
7. Act as a risk ambassador within Booking.com to further enhance risk awareness and culture, including by facilitating formal training sessions.

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

1. Previous work experience in business analysis, auditing, corporate governance, risk management or internal controls.
2. Understanding of internal controls (e.g. SOX & COSO) and experience in applying them in various business areas/functions.
3. Flexibility to adapt to an ever-evolving and dynamic work environment.
4. Self-starter with strong sense of responsibility.
5. Energetic and very proactive.
6. Process, problem solving and action oriented mindset.
7. Strong communication and relationship building skills.
8. High level of integrity, confidentiality & professionalism.
9. Ability to develop strong relationships with business partners in order to drive risk management culture and implementation.
10. Fluent in English, both written and spoken (other languages would be a plus).
11. Project management skills are considered a plus.