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.
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As the building block that provides solid baseline to the company’s culture of integrity, the Agoda Compliance & Ethics team is at the forefront in driving and maintaining the Agoda Compliance & Ethics program. We are seeking able, confident, curious, and self-motivated professional with experience working in global Compliance &Ethics program to join the energetic &passionate Agoda Compliance & Ethics team who will have significant contribution to strengthen and support integration of Compliance &Ethics program to the business. This position is based in Bangkok. Agoda provides relocation support for successful candidates who are not currently located in Bangkok. Please note that we are not open to remote working or the possibility of being based in other locations. This role is individual contributor. In this Role,you’ll get to * Lead and support day-to-day compliance and ethics initiatives, ensuring key objectives, deliverables, and reporting are completed in a timely manner. * Conduct review of gifts & entertainment, conflicts of interest disclosure,third-party due diligence,risk assessment,monitoring and testing;and drive appropriate mitigation actions in partnership with relevant stakeholders. * Develop,implement and enhance compliance policies,procedures and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to address evolving business and regulatory risks. * Support the development and delivery of compliance training programs, including in-person and virtual sessions, and update e-learning materials in line with evolving business needs. * Promote a strong ethical culture through awareness campaigns, employee engagement initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration. * Partner closely with cross-functional teams such as Legal, Finance, Government Affairs,People, Commercial, Supply and other business stakeholders to embed compliance requirements into business processes. * Drive continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives, including the use of new technologies and digital tools to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort. * Prepare or support management updates and reporting materials, and other compliance-related communications for internal and external stakeholders and leadership. * Support additional and adhoc work as necessary to support the compliance & ethics function and mature the program. What you’ll Need to Succeed * At least 5 years previous experience working in compliance and ethics function or related field(legal,or risk) in multinational medium to large organizations. * Proactive thinking beyond assigned tasks and consistently developing solutions to further the Compliance & Ethics program. * Detailed-oriented, able to connect dots, see the big picture, drive changes, and confidently navigate and appropriately mitigate challenging compliance requirements with business mindsets. * Ability to position the role as C&E strategic advisor and forge trusted relationships with colleagues around the world. * Confident communication skills(verbal and written); English proficiency. * Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills. * Strong digital fluency with proficiency in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace,along with ability to master internal systems and leverage AI tools for workflow optimization. * Must possess the highest integrity,commensurate with a compliance & ethics position. * Ability to operate without extensive supervision and act as a self-starter. * Energetic, fast-paced, and always desire to go the extra mile. It’s Great if you have * Bachelor’s Degree in Law * Experience with the travel industry/technology
We are seeking a Regulatory & Scientific Affairs (RSA) Specialist to play a key role in bringing innovative products to market. You will lead regulatory review, product registration, labeling compliance, and submission activities while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive compliant and efficient product launches. Key Responsibilities * Lead regulatory review of product labels, artwork, ingredients, and claims to ensure compliance with applicable regulations. * Provide regulatory guidance and risk assessment to support product development and innovation projects. * Manage product registrations and regulatory submissions with Thai FDA, DLD and relevant authorities. * Partner with R&D, Marketing, Quality, and external stakeholders to enable compliant and timely product launches. * Maintain regulatory documentation and support continuous improvement of regulatory processes. Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Nutrition, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related fields * 2+ years' experience in Regulatory Affairs, Food Compliance, Product Registration, or Scientific Affairs * Knowledge of food regulations, labeling, claims, and product registration * Strong regulatory risk assessment and problem-solving skills * High attention to detail and accuracy * Effective communication and stakeholder collaboration * Strong project management and prioritization abilities * Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and drive continuous improvementProficient in English Remark: 1) Work location base at Thai Union’s corporate office – SM Tower, Bangkok. Direction to work location: Map 2) For any further discussion, please send you inquiry to careers@thaiunion.com
**About the Role** Lead regulatory and scientific affairs activities for assigned product categories (Pet Food), ensuring regulatory compliance, food safety, and market access across global markets. Provide strategic regulatory guidance, generate actionable regulatory intelligence, and support innovation and business growth through strong stakeholder engagement and science-based advocacy. **Key Responsibilities** **Regulatory Strategy & Advocacy** * Drive regulatory strategies that support innovation and business objectives. * Monitor and assess regulatory developments and business impacts. * Build and maintain relationships with regulatory authorities, industry associations, and key stakeholders. * Advocate science-based positions to facilitate product and ingredient approvals. **Regulatory Compliance & Market Access** * Ensure end-to-end regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. * Lead product registrations, dossier submissions, and approval activities in target markets. * Provide regulatory guidance on formulations, ingredients, labeling, claims, and applicable regulations. * Support food safety, quality compliance, audits, and claims substantiation. * Develop and strengthen regulatory frameworks that enable innovation and business growth. **Regulatory Intelligence & Knowledge Management** * Manage regulatory databases and information systems. * Monitor emerging regulatory, food safety, and quality risks. * Translate regulatory insights into clear business recommendations and risk mitigation actions. * Promote regulatory capability building and best practices across the organization. **Qualifications** * Relevant experience in Regulatory Affairs, Scientific Affairs, Food Safety, Quality, or related fields within the food industry. * Strong understanding of global food regulations and product registration processes. * Strong regulatory leadership with the ability to align regulatory strategy with business priorities. * Deep knowledge of food regulations, food safety, compliance, and risk management. * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with regulators and cross-functional teams. * Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical business solutions. * Proven capability to lead projects, drive collaboration, and build organizational capability. * Proficient in English. **Remark:** 1) Work location base at Thai Union’s corporate office – SM Tower, Bangkok. Direction to work location: Map 2) For any further discussion, please send you inquiry to careers@thaiunion.com
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** Agoda’s FinTech teams build and operate the platforms that power our global financial ecosystem. From payments and reconciliation to tax, compliance, and financial reporting, these systems sit at the core of how we scale our business reliably and responsibly. As Agoda continues to grow across markets, products, and partner ecosystems, tax technology plays a critical role in enabling compliant, scalable, and efficient financial operations. Our teams work across product, engineering, finance, and architecture to design robust solutions that balance control, flexibility, and innovation. In this role, you will help shape the future of Agoda’s tax technology landscape, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to build resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that support a fast-moving global business. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Platform Architect to define and drive the technical direction of Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem within FinTech. In this role, you will own the architecture vision and roadmap for scalable, secure, and compliant tax platforms that support Agoda’s global financial operations, high transaction volumes, and evolving regulatory needs. You will work closely with Finance domain experts, product managers, engineering teams, and fellow architects to translate complex tax rules and business requirements into robust technical solutions across Agoda’s internal systems, data flows, tax engines, and selected third-party platforms. As a senior technical leader, you will operate from strategy through implementation detail: guiding architectural decisions, challenging trade-offs, coaching engineering teams, and ensuring our tax platforms are resilient, adaptable, observable, and built for Agoda’s scale. You will help balance compliance and governance with engineering velocity, cost efficiency, and long-term platform quality. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)** **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. * Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. * Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. * Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. * Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. * Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. * Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. * Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. * Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. * Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. * Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **10+ years**of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. * **3+ years**of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. * Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. * Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. * Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. * Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. * Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. * Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. * Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. * Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. * Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies * Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. * Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. * Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. * Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi 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orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). ## Apply Now Platform Architect (Tax), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided) +1 This role is based in Bangkok. We would offer relocation support and visa sponsorship. Are you open to relocate to Bangkok? LinkedIn What is your overall years of relevant experience? What are your strongest tech stacks? (Please select top 3 options) Java Scala .Net C# Kotlin Go-Lang Python In which country/region are you currently based? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? How did you hear about this job? Preferred First Name We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters
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** Agoda’s FinTech teams build and operate the platforms that power our global financial ecosystem. From payments and reconciliation to tax, compliance, and financial reporting, these systems sit at the core of how we scale our business reliably and responsibly. As Agoda continues to grow across markets, products, and partner ecosystems, tax technology plays a critical role in enabling compliant, scalable, and efficient financial operations. Our teams work across product, engineering, finance, and architecture to design robust solutions that balance control, flexibility, and innovation. In this role, you will help shape the future of Agoda’s tax technology landscape, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to build resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that support a fast-moving global business. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Platform Architect to define and drive the technical direction of Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem within FinTech. In this role, you will own the architecture vision and roadmap for scalable, secure, and compliant tax platforms that support Agoda’s global financial operations, high transaction volumes, and evolving regulatory needs. You will work closely with Finance domain experts, product managers, engineering teams, and fellow architects to translate complex tax rules and business requirements into robust technical solutions across Agoda’s internal systems, data flows, tax engines, and selected third-party platforms. As a senior technical leader, you will operate from strategy through implementation detail: guiding architectural decisions, challenging trade-offs, coaching engineering teams, and ensuring our tax platforms are resilient, adaptable, observable, and built for Agoda’s scale. You will help balance compliance and governance with engineering velocity, cost efficiency, and long-term platform quality. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)** **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. * Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. * Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. * Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. * Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. * Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. * Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. * Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. * Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. * Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. * Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **10+ years**of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. * **3+ years**of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. * Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. * Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. * Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. * Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. * Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. * Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. * Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. * Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. * Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies * Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. * Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. * Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. * Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi 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We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). ## Apply Now Senior Lead Software Engineer (Tax Solution), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided) +93 This role is based in Bangkok. We would offer relocation support and visa sponsorship. Are you open to relocate to Bangkok? 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The Global Privacy environment is changing at a speed never seen before and while this poses a significant challenge for global businesses such as ours to keep up with the laws, it also presents a great opportunity for you to be a part of a global data privacy team directly contributing to build the trust of our users, employees, and partners at Agoda. As a Data Privacy Analyst, you will support Agoda’s Privacy Advisory function by helping the team provide timely, well-organized privacy legal advice across the business, while also keeping the engine room of the advisory practice running smoothly – from knowledge management to performance metrics. You will work closely with a world class privacy team comprising of subject matter experts, security professionals and technology teams in a global work environment. In this Role,you’ll get to: * Conduct fact-finding for privacy advisory queries – gathering relevant business context, prior guidance and documentation to facilitate efficient legal assessment of requests * Provide support on privacy advisory matters, including drafting initial reviews and assessments under guidance * Support training and awareness initiatives and regulatory change management initiatives * Actively manage the privacy advisory repository from end-to-end * Establish, review & improve privacy policies, standards, and procedures * Identify & manage privacy risks associated with 3rd parties * Upkeep,maintain and improve privacy controls * Improve privacy team’s efficiencies using data analytics (Metrics, Key Risk Indicators, Dashboards, Trend analysis) * Provide project management support for specific privacy projects What you’ll Need to Succeed: * A genuine interest in data privacy and/or technology law * 1-2 years’ experience in Legal,Governance, Risk or Compliance disciplines * Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail * Great written and verbal communication skills * Well versed with MS Office suite * Willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done including routine and,administrative,tasks * Curiosity & willingness to explore privacy concepts and ask questions * Proficient in English It’s Great if you Have: * Basic understanding of privacy concepts or laws (GDPR, PDPA,etc) * Experience with data/metrics tracking (Excel, dashboards, etc.) * Prior exposure to legal document or template management * Ability to execute at pace and multi-task in an agile environment We Offer: * A dynamic role in a fast-growing team of a reputable global company * Working in an international environment * Great opportunities for further development in data privacy,cybersecurity and artificial intelligence * Working in a team of flexibly minded and highly skilled professionals Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
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.
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:** Agoda has taken many great strides in recent years, expanding our reach around the globe as well as our list of travel products. A critical driver to this success has been the team of Agoda Finance. We keep a steady hand on maintaining day to-day financial operations while also keeping an eye out for future opportunities. Not only do we have the unique role of balancing risk management with continued innovation and growth, we also serve as a means of empowerment for both our team members and those within the company. Having experimentation and data analysis deeply ingrained in our culture, we provide the strategic insights Agoda’s business leaders need to push into new territories in sustainable and scalable ways. We also prioritize career development in Agoda Finance. Every function within the team has a well-defined career track with clear goals and development targets each step of the way. **The Opportunity:** As an Oracle Fusion Functional Consultant, you will be a key member of our team, using your 5+ years of experience to design, implement, and manage systems and processes controls that drive our Finance functions. You’ll take on the role of Compliance Owner for “Off The Shelf Systems (OTS),” working closely with IT, Product, Risk and Compliance, Auditors, and other departments. We’re looking for a results-oriented professional who can communicate effectively, manage projects, and collaborate across teams. You will be expected to confidently express your ideas and perspectives to stakeholders and manage projects with minimal supervision. Being comfortable with ambiguity, organized, and possessing strong interpersonal skills will be essential to your success. Your ability to influence, communicate, and drive change will be critical in delivering value to the business. **In This Role, You’ll Get to be a:** * **Tech, Process, and Compliance Advisor:**Participate in business discussions, providing expert insights from both a finance and compliance perspective to ensure that technology and processes meet user needs, while adhering to risk management, segregation of duties (SoD), and access control standards. * **Solution Implementer:**Develop, configure, and implement off-the-shelf Oracle finance technology solutions, ensuring seamless integration with existing Oracle systems while maintaining strong controls around user access, security, and compliance. * **Testing and Risk Contributor:**Support testing phases, ensuring finance systems operate efficiently while upholding risk mitigation strategies, proper segregation of duties, and that access controls are correctly implemented throughout the development and testing lifecycle. * **System and Compliance Evaluator:**Regularly assess and improve Oracle finance systems and processes to enhance efficiency, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards like SOX and internal access control policies. * **Change Coordinator Change Coordinator:**Evaluate the impact of upstream changes on finance systems, reports, and access controls, collaborating with Oracle technical and business teams to ensure smooth and compliant implementation with a focus on mitigating potential risks. * **Issue and Compliance Resolver:**Serve as a liaison between business and tech teams to analyze and resolve software or technical issues, ensuring that solutions comply with Oracle’s access control policies, risk management protocols, and financial regulations. * **Continuous Learner:**Stay updated on accounting, tax, and risk management developments, particularly within the travel industry, to ensure that Oracle finance systems remain compliant and future-ready. * **System Maintainer:**Assist in the setup, maintenance, and compliance of financial systems, ensuring they are optimized for business success, maintain high user satisfaction, and are safeguarded with proper access controls and risk management protocols. **What You’ll Need to Succeed:** * **Industry Expertise Industry Expertise:**Over 5 years of experience managing finance system projects and operations, particularly within ERP systems in the tech or e-commerce sectors, with a strong focus on Oracle Fusion Finance configuration, compliance, access control, and risk management. * **Oracle Fusion Finance Configuration:**Extensive experience configuring and optimizing Oracle Fusion Finance systems, ensuring seamless integration with financial processes while adhering to compliance and regulatory standards such as SOX. * **Finance Systems Proficiency:**In-depth understanding of multiple finance systems, including Oracle Fusion Finance, with proven success in applying this knowledge to ensure compliance with segregation of duties (SoD) and access control policies. * **Stakeholder Management:**Demonstrated ability to manage and influence stakeholders across finance, IT, and business teams to align on project objectives, risk mitigation strategies, and successful outcomes in Oracle Fusion environments. * **Educational Background:**Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field. A professional accounting qualification is a plus, with strong understanding of financial controls and SOX compliance. * **Adaptability:**Proven ability to excel in fast-paced, dynamic environments, quickly adapting to new challenges, including Oracle Fusion configurations, while maintaining compliance with industry standards and evolving regulations. * **Vendor Management:**Skilled in managing vendor relationships, negotiating best outcomes while maintaining strong partnerships, ensuring vendor compliance with Oracle system configurations and financial regulations. * **Project Leadership:**Strong project management capabilities, leading cross-functional initiatives involving Product, Tech, and Business teams, with a focus on Oracle Fusion Finance, aligning objectives, mitigating risks, and driving successful execution. * **Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills:**Strong analytical mindset with the ability to identify practical solutions, particularly in Oracle Fusion Finance configuration, risk management, access controls, and system optimization. * **Detail-Oriented:**High attention to detail, ensuring that Oracle Fusion Finance systems are continuously improved and compliant with internal and external regulatory requirements. * **Communication Skills:**Excellent written and verbal communication skills, combined with strong organizational and planning abilities to effectively convey project goals and compliance measures, especially related to Oracle Fusion Finance. * **Dependability:**Strong sense of urgency and results orientation, dedicated to meeting goals, ensuring compliance, and driving business value through effective Oracle Fusion Finance configuration, risk management, and system optimization. * **Good experience with Oracle BI Publisher (BIP)**, including the ability to understand existing reports and design, develop, and maintain new BIP reports (templates, data models, and layouts). * **Proficient in SQL**, with the ability to write, optimize, and troubleshoot SQL queries for reporting, data analysis, and integrations. **It’s Great if You Have:** * Experience working in finance cross-functions (e.g., Tax, Finance operations, Treasury, FP&A). * Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, SDLC). * Experience in data analytics or with other modules within Oracle Fusion ERP. Knowledge of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools and other financial software
This role focuses on managing Rework and Return processes, ensuring operational control and problem-solving. The position involves managing workforce performance, coordinating with cross-functional departments, and maintaining compliance with safety standards. The role requires strong analytical skills, spreadsheet proficiency, and the ability to handle operational issues and SLA control. Candidates must be willing to work in a fast-paced environment, handle extended working hours during campaigns, and work mostly in afternoon or night shifts.