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 make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

We’re a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform – whenever and however it’s convenient for them.

The FinTech business unit within Booking.com aims at removing financial friction from the travel experience for both travelers and our accommodation partners.

As a Strategy Associate within FinTech in Amsterdam, you support identifying, shaping and bringing to life exciting financial products and support strategic decision making on those products. The role is key to gain a better understanding of what financial frictions are, how we could address them and where to prioritize.

This includes shaping opportunities for new financial products on Booking.com, performing qualitative and quantitative analyses on these and translating the insights into a clear proposal and roadmap. As part of this role, you will consult both internal and external data sources, identify key requirements and challenges to bring a proposition to life, be creative about analytical methodologies, engage with many different stakeholders and present to senior leadership.

This role will also require you to think in a structured way about the capabilities required to offer those financial products and how we should approach gaining those (build / cooperate / buy from 3rd party). Good understanding of Financial Services and/or global tech companies is key to this.

Your contribution:

• Think customer first in identifying & evaluating new opportunities
• Lead industry and competitive analyses independently end-to-end
• Build business case models and opportunity-sizing analyses that are supported by data
• Be flexible in adapting your approach and expanding your competencies when a better way presents itself
• Be able to apply a solid understanding of the financial services / FinTech landscape
• Be highly structured and synthesize findings into a crisp and coherent story that enables strategic decision making
• Identify requirements to take development of the opportunity to the next phase, while dealing with ambiguity and a wide variety of stakeholders
• Grasp the complexity of a proposition, while describing it in a simple / clear way
• Communicate effectively and collaboratively, and challenge constructively
• Be a key contributor to the team, working in close alignment with team members, but also with various stakeholders from across teams

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience
• Experience in financial services, either within strategy consulting or in an analytical role within a Global Tech or Financial Services firm
• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Hands-on experience with Excel, SQL or Tableau are good to have
• Ability to explain difficult concepts in simplified terms
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders and collaborate closely to develop optimal solutions
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• Ability to work with ambiguity in fast changing environment
• Bachelor degree at minimum Master degree preferred

We offer:

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• We aim to empower you to do your best work, whether in the office or at home, as well as 20 days per year to work from abroad with our Work from Abroad benefit* (subject to terms and conditions)
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)
• Parental Leave: From day one of your employment with us, we offer 22 weeks’ fully paid leave for all new parents, regardless of gender or the way you become a parent
• Care Leave: 10 days’ fully paid leave per year for colleagues who are caring for ill family members.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.