Process Owner - PSP Governance (For independent contractors)

As a Process Owner - PSP Governance, you will play a critical role in setting the Commercial Operations team up for future success by documenting the as-is state of our PSP access models and account structures, as well as identifying areas for improvement and embedding compliance requirements needed for our regulated legal entity. This role requires strong internal stakeholder and vendor management skills, and ideally experience in documenting and creating user access models in a similar role in the Payments industry.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

(1) Build and execute a user access policy model for two existing Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and one new PSP, involving:

• Discovery: Map access model types available on the PSP Platforms to Booking.com internal team setup

• Review: Assess the current user base for the existing PSPs and clean up access based on the mapped model

• Reporting: Liaise with the PSPs to design robust reporting on user access models in order to conduct SOx-compliant controls

• Superuser revamp: Collaborate with the PSPs to ensure that current internal protocols for superuser access are reflected in the PSP Platforms and document the PSPs’ protocols for updating changes to the superuser base

• Regulatory readiness: Liaise with Booking.com’s regulated legal entity (Booking Holdings Financial Services) to ensure access models meet the requirements needed to transact through them

• Execution: Work with our Bangalore-based PSP Administration team to roll out new access models and set up users & reporting

(2) Document & clean up the existing account/sub-account structure for two existing PSPs (and the initial setup for one new PSP), including:

• Liaising with internal teams (Product, Finance, non-Accommodation verticals) to identify the purpose of existing/initial sub-accounts with PSPs

Documenting the Booking.com settlement bank accounts & currencies linked to each PSP and working with Treasury to ensure these are compliant

• Initiating processes with PSPs to shut down any discontinued sub-accounts

• Regulatory readiness: Liaising with Booking.com’s regulated legal entity (Booking Holdings Financial Services) to ensure the sub-account structure for their routed volumes are fit for purpose