Banking Administration Lead (For independent contractors)

Please note, this is a 6-month assignment for freelancers, weekly 2-3 days office presence is required.

The pay rate is 40-80 EUR/hour.

As Banking Administration Lead you are responsible to drive the adequate governance of all the Booking.com KYC, signatory and bank mandates resulting as a consequence of the company’s global footprint and equally widespread banking operations in a plethora of complex and challenging jurisdictions.

You are responsible to manage internal and external stakeholders, design new processes and identify opportunities for the business to streamline and consolidate its current bank administration procedures in line with the designed (SoX) controls.

You work closely together with your colleagues driving the global banking strategy.

You will be part of the Treasury team and work closely together with dedicated banking and insurance specialists.

You will be able to demonstrate flawless teamwork, coordination, and relationship management skills, with tenacity and drive for successful projects. Objectives vary between a number of KYC, regulatory, legal, Risk, AML, Compliance and FinCrime landscapes (Regulatory, Legal, Risk & Control, Financial Crime) working effectively with experts and stakeholders in each area.

You will act as a trusted lead who thrives in a global environment that encourages excellence, demands integrity, cultivates trust and promotes and grows the Banking Administration function in the Center of Excellence for all KYC, Compliance, legal representative appointments and global regulatory frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the development and evolution of the company's global banking capabilities, by identifying & deploying suitable bank mandate and KYC systematic efficiencies for filing, archiving and automating requirements and procedures across the globe in an effort to maintain a central treasury repository

  
  

• Create ROI business cases to successfully implement internally diverse products driving the business growth.

  
  

• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders across all levels of seniority.

  
  

• Create, maintain and cultivate core-banking relationships, balancing optimal financial value with service delivery from an implementation perspective, documentation and KYC perspective

  
  

• Identify areas of improvement and influence stakeholders in the implementation of new processes or modification of current processes

  
  

• Management of ad-hoc projects where required

  
  

• Promote, train and advise internal stakeholders in the best practices from a data sharing, data collection, documentation management and renewal across the relevant jurisdictions

  
  

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

• Bachelor degree + Specialized Relevant Finance Diploma

• Ability to work in a complex and dynamic environment, requiring communicating and liaising across multiple functional teams (Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Risk & Control, FP&A, External Counsel, FinCrime)

  
  

• Drive process improvements creating and implementing operational processes, including system consolidations and improvements.

  
  

• Ability to utilize information from regulatory changes, new regulations, and internal policy changes to further identify new key risk areas and work together with internal departments to set the necessary controls in place

  
  

• Strong competence in understanding legal transactional requirements and business requirements to be able to overlay varying implications in effort to determine optimum solutions.

  
  

• Strong interpersonal skills

  
  

• Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful

  
  

• Solution oriented and result driven

  
  

• Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team

  
  

• Systems: SAP and Excel

  
  

• Educational background or extensive work experience in Finance or Business Economics;

  
  

• Fluent in English to a good level of proficiency; able to conduct and conclude highly technical discussions and agreements.

  
  

• Self-starter able to work independently.

  
  

• Prior experience managing multiple stakeholder relationships.

  
  

• Able to adapt style and approach in order to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders from a variety of different cultures.

  
  

• Able to demonstrate unrelenting tenacity to drive business objectives and deliver results.