At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get To Know Our Team:** The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. **The Opportunity:** As a senior member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a critical role in driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across our international payroll operations. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Senior Partner will have end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll delivery. In addition to managing complex payroll operations, you will act as a subject-matter expert, support strategic payroll initiatives, lead process improvements and transformation projects, and provide guidance to Payroll Partners within the team. You will partner closely with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, People Systems, and external payroll vendors to strengthen controls, improve employee experience, and build scalable global payroll processes. **What You’ll Do:** * Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries or regions, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements. * Lead monthly payroll activities, including validation of payroll inputs and outputs, variance analysis, statutory payments, funding requirements, and payroll sign-off. * Manage complex payroll accounting activities, including payroll GL reconciliation, payroll funding reconciliation, vendor invoice validation, accruals, and issue resolution. * Act as the primary payroll subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex payroll, compliance, accounting, and employee-related matters. * Manage and govern payroll vendors against contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, driving corrective actions where necessary. * Build strong relationships with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are identified and resolved proactively. * Lead payroll implementations, migrations, integrations, vendor transitions, system upgrades, and new-country payroll setups while ensuring operational continuity and minimal employee impact. * Partner with People Systems, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Rewards, HR Operations, and other People teams to design and implement scalable payroll processes, controls, and policies. * Lead payroll readiness activities for new entities, acquisitions, reorganizations, legal entity changes, and other business transformation initiatives. * Identify payroll compliance risks and work with relevant stakeholders to implement appropriate mitigation and controls. * Own and drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives across assigned payrolls. * Perform detailed payroll analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and variance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement. * Support payroll forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and funding requirements in partnership with Finance and Treasury. * Lead and support internal, external, statutory, and SOX audits, ensuring documentation, controls, and remediation actions are completed within agreed timelines. * Develop and maintain payroll SOPs, controls, process documentation, governance frameworks, and operational dashboards. * Provide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to Payroll Partners, helping build payroll capability and knowledge across the team. * Support the Payroll Manager with operational governance, workload prioritization, risk management, stakeholder updates, and strategic payroll initiatives. * Represent Payroll in cross-functional projects and forums and effectively communicate payroll risks, decisions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders. * Drive a strong employee-focused payroll experience by ensuring payroll inquiries and escalations are handled professionally, accurately, and within agreed service levels. **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. * At least 5–7 years of end-to-end payroll and/or payroll accounting experience, preferably within a large, international, fast-paced organization. * Strong experience managing multi-country payroll across APAC, Europe, NAM, or multiple international regions. * Strong knowledge of payroll operations, payroll accounting, statutory compliance, taxation, social security, payroll controls, and payroll funding processes. * Proven experience independently managing complex payrolls and resolving payroll, compliance, vendor, and employee escalations. * Demonstrated experience leading payroll migrations, implementations, integrations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, or transformation projects. * Strong payroll vendor management experience, including SLA/KPI governance, performance management, issue escalation, and service improvement. * Proven ability to lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform payroll variance analysis, root-cause analysis, and identify operational risks. * Good understanding of payroll accounting, GL reconciliation, accruals, payroll funding, vendor invoices, forecasting, and budgeting. * Experience supporting internal/external audits and working within a strong governance and controls environment. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external partners. * Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex payroll topics clearly to both operational and senior stakeholders. * Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other productivity tools. * Experience with Workday and global payroll platforms is preferred. * Experience with payroll analytics, automation, reporting tools, or Power BI would be an advantage. * Ability to coach and support junior team members and contribute to building a high-performing payroll team. * Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities and payroll deadlines simultaneously. * Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, multicultural, and continuously evolving global environment. * Demonstrates resilience, ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to remain effective under pressure. * Maintains a high level of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and professional ethics.
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At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get To Know Our Team:** Join a small platform team building the next generation of natural-language analytics at Agoda. You will own the governed knowledge layer between our data warehouse and the applications, assistants, and analysts that consume it: metrics, domain context, quality signals, and the APIs that expose them. This is semantic modeling and knowledge engineering, not dashboard reporting or model training. **The Opportunity:** * You will design and operate the shared knowledge layer behind conversational analytics at Agoda: turning scattered business knowledge into versioned, reviewable assets that return consistent, current answers. * You pair with a senior tech lead on product architecture. Your scope is the layer itself (models, context, validation, governance workflows) and how it is exposed through service and agent interfaces. **What You’ll Do:** * Model governed metrics, dimensions, joins, and grain for business domains * Structure expert context, glossaries, and validated question patterns as Git-reviewed assets * Build freshness, drift, and validation signals; treat stale knowledge as a production issue * Expose the layer through APIs so applications and agents get deterministic answers * Enable domain owners to propose, review, and publish knowledge without engineering deploys * Partner across analytics, product, and platform teams on access control and quality standards **Required Qualifications:** * 4+ years in BI, analytics engineering, data platform, or software engineering with heavy data modeling * Semantic or metrics-layer experience (LookML, dbt metrics, or equivalent) * Strong SQL and analytical modeling on OLAP / warehouse systems * Knowledge engineering: versioned definitions, peer review, contributor workflows * API / service mindset: you design for multiple consumers, not a single dashboard * Clear communication across engineering, analytics, and product partners **Preferred Qualifications:** * Open-source semantic layer engines (Cube, MetricFlow patterns) * Agent or tool-interface experience for LLM-powered applications * NL-to-data products, retrieval, or evaluation harnesses * Python or Node.js service development * Large-scale e-commerce or travel analytics environments
The Senior Treasury Manager – Banking and Strategy supports BKNG Treasury dedicated to the Agoda brand, leading the organization and execution of global banking operations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.. The role spans bank relationship management (including banking wallet), commercial management (fees and interest), banking infrastructure, and treasury strategy, reporting to Director, Corporate Treasurer dedicated to Agoda brand with a dotted line to Global Head of Banking, Strategy and Technology in Amsterdam. You will develop regulatory-compliant banking solutions and connectivity in collaboration with the Center of Expertise in Amsterdam, elevating capabilities through continuous improvement, AI automation, and robust controls. You will drive strategy execution for complex initiatives (e.g., Connected Trip, regulated payments), through funds flow target operating model design, deliver data-driven recommendations to senior stakeholders, and enable efficient ways of working across Treasury via planning, budgeting, and service management. As a people manager, you will inspire, mentor, and coach a high-performing team, fostering an environment of continuous growth and accountability. By championing their professional development, you will empower your team to navigate complex financial landscapes and collectively deliver high-impact, strategic results for the business. Last but not least, while initially dedicated to Agoda, your scope may expand over time to support other brands within the Booking Holdings portfolio across the region. **What You’ll Do:** * Lead and support global banking operations across Americas, EMEA, and APAC; oversee bank relationship management (wallet, fees), banking infrastructure, and treasury strategy. * Develop fit-for-purpose, regulatory-compliant banking products/solutions; ensure effective banking connectivity is adopted by brands (SWIFT Net, H2H, TMS Payment Hub and API) in partnership with the Center of Expertise. Leveraging latest file format standards. * Contribute in driving high-stakes commercial negotiations with global core and non-core banking partners, focusing on bank fees, credit interest conditions, and advanced cash management techniques (I.e. account balances’ yield enhancement, pooling, FX SWAP, POBO/ ROBO setup and cash repatriation from regulated markets). * Work closely with other BKNG Treasury locations to ensure adherence and compliance within the global Bank Account Management (BAM) and Banking Administration (KYC, signatory management, report and banking platform user access management) processes. * Contribute actively in the development of banking and strategy processes policies, playbooks, procedures, and governance frameworks. * Drive continuous improvement: identify gaps, automate processes, and adopt technology with Treasury Data Science/Analytics and Banking Technology teams based in Amsterdam. * Design, implement, and maintain process and control frameworks to meet SOX/business control requirements and manage banking operational risks; align with banking policies and guidelines. * Own key performance deliverables within established governance; ensure business resilience and continuity for global banking operations. * Plan and deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives across agencies, payments, and new revenue models; align stakeholders and outcomes. * Partner with Treasury SMEs, Finance, and cross-functional teams to communicate findings, blockers, dependencies, and recommendations; influence up to SVP level. * Lead Banking and Strategy advisory for new verticals/products; negotiate with banks/fintechs; run workshops to define target operating models and ensure policy adherence. * Lead annual planning and the design of longer-term banking operating model (people, systems, processes) aligned with company strategy. * Ensure compliance with banking, payments, tax, legal, and AML/sanctions regulations. * Act as an innovation catalyst across Treasury and Finance by exploring opportunities, validating use cases, and supporting implementation of innovative solutions. * Champion process improvement, waste reduction, AI automation, adoption of new technologies, and Six Sigma principles. **Required Qualifications:** * ‘Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in Finance or related field preferred. Professional treasury qualification such as CTP (Certified Treasury Professional) or AMCT (Diploma in Treasury Management, ACT) is advantageous. 12+ years of relevant experience.’ * Proven expertise in bank relationship management (banking wallet), commercial management (fees, interest), and service level management (technical SLAs). * Strong understanding of banking connectivity and technologies (SWIFT/API/H2H, Open Banking), bank account management, treasury management systems, and high-level payments architecture. Experience designing integrations across TMS, ERP, and banking platforms. * Deep experience across banking, treasury, and financial services, including advanced FX, cash management, and risk management techniques. * Advanced analytical skills; able to structure ambiguous problems, decompose into workstreams, and drive data-driven decisions. * Excellent English communication and interpersonal skills; strong stakeholder management up to SVP level, with consensus building and conflict resolution. * Skilled in persuasion and negotiation to drive adoption of policies, target operating models, and solutions; experienced in leading workshops. * Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed, complex environment; can influence broader strategy and vision. * Sound judgment and trusted advisor to leadership; willingness and ability to mentor, inspire, and coach colleagues to enable One Team success. * Demonstrated end-to-end global project delivery in product and/or commercial initiatives such as safeguarding models and compliance for regulated entities, global banking and payments solutioning, systems and technology enablement, global cash and liquidity management, and/or global risk management. * Lead the design and development of compliant, scalable, and commercially competitive end-to-end fund flow models accounting for evolving business models and cross-brand initiatives involving complex markets such as in Asia regions. * Proven track record of optimizing fund flow costs, in domestic Asian markets, and cross border between domestic Asian markets and G10 markets.
As the building block that provides a solid baseline for Agoda’s culture of integrity, the Compliance & Ethics team is at the forefront of driving and maintaining the company’s compliance program and managing regulatory risks across a fast‑growing, tech‑driven global travel business. Within Booking Holdings, an enhanced and more connected global B2B organization is being built, bringing together strategic partnership capabilities across Booking.com, Priceline and Agoda (“New B2B Business”). Intended to better serve partners, move faster in the market, and unlock new opportunities for growth, the new organization will support strategic partnerships, affiliate and API distribution, corporate and wholesale travel, and other commercial channels, serving airlines, travel management companies, OTAs, financial institutions, platforms and other strategic partners. You will collaborate closely with colleagues across Booking Holdings Inc., Booking Holdings Financial Services, our sister brands, and key functions including FinTech, Product, Commercial, Legal, Internal Audit, People and Supply to help shape and support the next chapter of Booking Holdings’ B2B business, leveraging the company’s scale, technology, talent and global reach to create best-in-class partner experiences and innovative solutions. Reporting to the Agoda Senior Director, Compliance Officer, you will be the senior payments compliance lead for Agoda’s B2B (business to business) division, with a particular focus on our B2B payments products and related licensing obligations. You will design, enhance, and oversee our compliance risk management and control framework and provide pragmatic, risk-based advice to senior stakeholders. This position is based in Bangkok. Agoda provides relocation support for successful candidates not currently located in Bangkok. Remote or alternative base locations are not available. **In this Role, You’ll Get To** * Play a central role in helping design and implement the Compliance foundations of the new consolidated B2B business, including: **Compliance & Ethics Programme – Key Responsibilities** * Lead and support day‑to‑day Compliance & Ethics initiatives, ensuring key objectives, deliverables, and reporting are completed in a timely and high‑quality manner. * Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor on broader Compliance & Ethics topics (e.g., anti‑bribery and corruption, conflicts of interest, third‑party risk, code of conduct), providing well‑reasoned, business‑oriented guidance that supports Agoda’s culture of integrity. * Shape and enhance Agoda’s Compliance & Ethics framework, including policies, standards, training, monitoring and testing activities, ensuring it remains fit‑for‑purpose and aligned with Booking Holdings’ expectations and global benchmarks. * Design and oversee practical review processes for gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest disclosures, third‑party due diligence, risk assessments, and related monitoring, and drive appropriate mitigation actions in close partnership with relevant stakeholders. * Collaborate with the Global Compliance & Ethics team on third‑party risk management initiatives and conflicts of interest processes, helping to ensure effective identification, escalation, and mitigation of key risks across new and existing activities. * Support or lead elements of compliance‑related reviews and investigations (where appropriate), and develop data‑driven monitoring approaches to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for programme uplift. * Develop, implement, and continuously refine compliance policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to keep pace with evolving business models and regulatory expectations. * Support the design, delivery, and refresh of compliance training programmes, including in‑person and virtual sessions, and maintain e‑learning materials in line with changing business needs and risk profiles. * Promote a strong ethical culture through awareness campaigns, employee engagement initiatives, and regular collaboration with key functions and leadership. * Partner closely with cross‑functional teams (e.g., Legal, Finance, Government Affairs, People, Commercial, Supply and other business stakeholders) to embed compliance requirements into products, processes, and day‑to‑day decision‑making. * Drive continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives, including the smart use of technology and digital tools to standardise, automate, and streamline compliance workflows. * Prepare or support management updates, reporting materials, and other compliance‑related communications for internal and external stakeholders and leadership. * Take on additional and ad hoc responsibilities as needed to strengthen the Compliance & Ethics function and further mature the overall programme. * Support the development, implementation and continuous enhancement of the financial crime risk management framework alongside our Financial Crime team. * Assist in areas of financial crime risk management such as testing and monitoring and annual risk assessment process. **What You’ll Need to Succeed** **Experience & Expertise** * 8+ years of progressive experience in compliance risk management regulatory compliance, preferably in global or regional organisations. * Significant cards and payments experience, including a practical understanding of consumer and B2B payments products, payment service provider models, card scheme rules, and payments licensing environments. * Proven track record in building, enhancing, or independently assessing compliance risk management frameworks for payments, including risk assessments, controls design, and governance. **Technical & Functional Skills** * Hands‑on experience designing, operating, or overseeing a corporate compliance framework, third‑party due diligence processes, investigations, escalation, and complex case handling. * Strong ability to translate legal and regulatory compliance into clear, pragmatic controls and processes that enable business growth while managing risk. **Leadership & Stakeholder Management** * Demonstrated success in influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders across functions (e.g., Product, FinTech, Commercial, Legal, Internal Audit, Operations) in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments. * Strong project and programme management skills, with the ability to prioritise, plan, and deliver multiple initiatives concurrently across jurisdictions and time zones. * Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal), with the ability to explain complex compliance concepts in clear, business‑friendly terms. **Mindset & Values** * Strategic, data‑driven, and solutions‑oriented, with the ability to “connect the dots”, see the big picture, and drive constructive change. * High level of integrity and sound judgement, suitable for a senior Compliance & Ethics leadership role. * Self‑starter who operates with minimal supervision, is comfortable with ambiguity, and thrives in a dynamic, tech‑driven, international environment.
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. We are looking for a hands on Senior Security Engineer to secure our cloud and platform environments. This role works closely with engineering teams and focuses on building, reviewing, and operating security controls using Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and custom security services written in Go and TypeScript. **Key Responsibilities:** Secure Cloud Deployment: * Design, implement, and manage secure cloud deployments across AWS and GCP environments using Terraform. * Kubernetes & GitOps Security: Deploy and manage both internal and third‑party security products within the Kubernetes ecosystem. * Work with GitOps workflows using tools like Argo CD and Flux, and Helm charts. * Security Automation & Tooling: Design and build security tooling and services using Go and TypeScript. * Misconfiguration Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and remediate cloud misconfigurations. * Cloud Architecture Guidance: Provide guidance to Engineering teams on secure architecture. * Threat Detection & Response: Build and optimize cloud-native detection rules and alerting pipelines to monitor for suspicious activities within the cloud and container workloads. **Required Skills & Experience:** * 8+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, or platform engineering roles. * Hands-on experience securing production workloads in AWS and GCP. * Strong experience designing and securing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. * Deep understanding of Kubernetes security, including troubleshooting Helm deployments and GitOps-based workflows. * Strong programming skills in Go and TypeScript, with Python used for automation where appropriate. * Experience embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines. * Certifications (Required) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Certifications (Preferred) AWS Certified Security Specialty Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate * Nice-to-Have Experience with Policy-as-Code frameworks such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). * Experience securing service mesh environments (Istio). Background in software engineering or platform engineering before moving into security.