Legal and Regulatory Counsel

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August 8

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At Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], we’re in the business of helping our customers go to their happy price. Priceline gets you to your happy place more often, so you never have to miss a moment. Whether it’s a much-needed getaway, wedding, reunion, graduation, or rooting on a favorite team—those are the moments that nobody should miss out on.

1001 - 5000 employees

📋 Description

• BHFS is looking for a Legal and Regulatory Counsel with a deep understanding of payments and strong experience in financial services regulation and stakeholder engagement. • This role will report to the Legal Director of BHFSI and will be instrumental in helping to develop, launch and enable our mission to deliver a world-class payments operation to support our global brands. • The selected candidate will have the chance to witness first-hand the investment in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel and paying for travel. • As you do so, you will advise on a range of legal matters related to payments and financial services regulation impacting BHFS and other brands within the Booking Holdings Group (BKNG). • Act as a critical partner and trusted advisor to our business to ensure compliance with applicable financial services law and regulation and best practices (PSD2, EMD2, AML/CTF, consumer protection). • Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of third party contracts including customer facing, merchant acquiring and vendor contracts (taking into consideration Outsourcing and DORA requirements). • Provide practical and actionable legal advice on a variety of regulated products and services and exercise legal judgement and commercial acumen in assessing and mitigating legal and regulatory risks. • Work closely with legal advisers at other BKNG brands to coordinate legal support across different specialisms and areas (including regulatory, commercial contracts, data privacy and tax). • Coordinate with appropriate outside counsel on a range of legal and regulatory issues. • Provide legal support for corporate governance matters, board resolutions and company secretarial tasks. • Apply a solutions oriented approach to legal advice and adapt to changes in the business environment. • Collaborate and build relationships with cross-functional teams including Compliance, Risk, Finance and procurement across BHFS and BKNG, ensuring our advice aligns with strategic objectives and fostering positive working relationships. • Communicate effectively, both in written and verbal forms, to convey legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders and external parties in a simple, direct and easy to understand manner. • Assist in building a best-in-class legal team by developing tools, templates and procedures and working with stakeholders to ensure efficient processes. • Develop and deliver training to legal and business teams across BKNG on legal, regulatory and payments matters.

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent academic credentials with a mix of in-house and big law firm experience preferred. • 5-8 years experience in a similar role • Knowledge and demonstrable experience of compliance with Payments and Financial Services law, regulation and best practice in the EEA (PSD2, EMD2, consumer protection, outsourcing, financial crime etc). • Experience in other jurisdictions is a plus. • Experience and understanding of the payments ecosystem. • Experience in providing legal and regulatory advice to multiple stakeholders on the design and management of payment and financial services products and delivery channels across a range of jurisdictions (with a focus on the EEA), for the full product lifecycle. • Experience in drafting, negotiating and advising on customer facing contracts. • Ability to proactively identify associated risks and recommend mitigation strategies, acting as a critical partner to the business. • Demonstrable business judgement, excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills and ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive projects to completion. • Ability to tolerate change and apply judgment where there is ambiguity in the law. • Creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple assignments simultaneously and effectively manage conflicting priorities. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as organisational and project management skills. • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment as well as on own initiative. • Positive attitude, high level of integrity and intellectual curiosity.