Data Analyst I

About Us:

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners, and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Role Description:

The Data Analyst I role is part of the Global Internal Audit (GIA) team, supporting Booking.com and other brands under Booking Holdings. This position focuses on executing risk-based analytical approaches for operational, financial, and compliance audits across Booking Holdings companies.

This role is ideal for candidates eager to explore the risks the company faces and understand how these risks are managed or should be managed. It's perfect for individuals who are curious, enjoy learning about audit, businesses, and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical techniques, and thrive in teamwork to enhance the capabilities of the Internal Audit department.

Joining our team offers the opportunity to learn about different brands within the company and gain valuable insights into various processes and departments. Our work spans across every brand and function, allowing us to connect people, share lessons learned, and promote best practices. Through this collaborative approach, we drive meaningful change and contribute to making the company stronger.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Works independently and collaborates with teams across various business units, building positive relationships, and translating audit needs into technical solutions.
• Uses their past experience and seeks help in complex scenarios to translate business problems into data-driven insights.
• Develop and maintain key reports and data processing workflows within their scope, debugging them as necessary.
• Is able to communicate results and outcomes clearly to stakeholders at all levels based on their knowledge and experience.
• Actively participates in audit and/or analytics team activities and suggests ways of achieving objectives (standup, planning meetings, retrospectives).
• Networks and proactively connects with craft peers beyond the team scope.
• Has strong understanding of the big data ecosystems.
• Collaborates and is open to giving and receiving feedback with peers and direct stakeholders.
• Is flexible in adopting and proposing new approaches and expanding their technical competencies when a more efficient way presents itself.
• Expected to get significant deep knowledge about the operational, tactical, and strategic workings of the department.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Demonstrable experience analytics within audit, risk, or controls is desirable.
• Strong Protagonist mindset of ownership beyond just execution.
• Strong Business Acumen - ability to distil disparate communication and data into a coherent story.
• Able to distil & relay complex, technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Strong technical skills (SQL, Python, Tableau, Snowflake, Airflow).
• Experience in working with diverse, non-standard analytical datasets from various systems and data engineering principles as you will often be responsible for acquiring your own data.
• Strong data management skills with a focus on data quality (timeliness & correctness).
• Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., CISA, CISSP, etc.) is a plus.