Company Description
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Company Name: Booking
Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch start-up to the third largest ecommerce company in the world. Booking.com is the largest business within Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and accounts for the vast majority of Booking Holdings’ total revenue. Booking Holdings is a leading Fortune 500 e-commerce conglomerate with a market cap of approximately $100 billion.
With a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. Booking.com connects travelers with the world’s largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts and even tree houses. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in over 43 languages and customers can reach Booking.com 24/7 for assistance and support in over 43 languages. As Booking.com envisions a future in which it will serve customers a one-stop solution for all travel-related needs, we are working towards offering a fully ‘Connected Trip’, in which every aspect of the travel experience can be planned and booked through us. We are determined to build the number 1 travel brand in the world!
At Booking.com, we are all involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. The decisions we make are a reflection of our Values - they reflect what is important to us, both as individuals and as an organization.
When we use our Values to make decisions, we make a deliberate choice to focus on what is important. When Values are made explicit, they provide clarity on what “good” looks like. And when they are shared, they build unity in a group. They build culture.
- Think customer first. We obsess about adding value for our customers - guests, partners, colleagues - to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
- Own it. We deliver on our promises, make informed decisions and prioritize to get the important things done today.
- Learn forever. We are resilient, take time to reflect, and seek to learn – from colleagues, from the outside world and from our failures.
- Succeed together. We celebrate team success, through making connections, building trust and valuing the diverse perspectives of others.
- Do the right thing. We get the right results the right way. For each other, our communities and the world around us.
Chief Executive Officer, Glenn Fogel
SVP, Chief Finance Officer (interim), Sue D’Emic
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Arjan Dijk
SVP, Chief Legal Officer, Maria Barros
SVP, Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano
SVP, Accommodations, James Waters
SVP, Chief Technology Officer, Rob Francis
SVP, FinTech, Daniel Marovitz
For more information on the leadership biographies: please visit Executive Biographies.
Director of Tax Data & Technology Strategy
The Director of Tax Data & Technology Strategy (DTS) is responsible for defining and leading the Data & Technology roadmap for Tax. You will lead and oversee (a portfolio of) complex global tax matters that span across multiple departments and technologies, domains and/or geographies. You will have an end-to-end responsibility from scoping the data and technology issue/challenge (incl. budgeting) to the overall solution (execution and implementation, often in close partnership with our Product & FinTech colleagues), including senior stakeholder management.
The role is required to keep a constant focus on potential changes within and outside the company, in order to be ahead of any tax technology-related matters and to proactively guide the business through its (strategic) decision making. You will prepare the company as much as possible for the future, by closely following and pro-actively acting upon new laws and other tax developments, in the media and at a political level, and in full alignment with your peers. In addition, you need to have a deep understanding of business/industry needs and develop and validate innovative solutions to support these needs in a practical and results oriented manner. You are able to understand the details, but focus on the bigger and more complex picture.
You will be part of the Tax leadership team and report directly into our VP of Tax who heads the Booking.com Tax department. The Booking.com tax department currently consists of 45 colleagues and is structured along a business partnering (Accomodations & Trips) as well as a subject matter expertise axis (VAT, Transfer Pricing, Governance - Compliance - Controversy, and Data & Technology Strategy). You will lead a team made up of Project/Program management as well as Tax experts.
Key Responsibilities:
You Will:
- Be end to end responsible for all tax Data & Technology matters of the company
- Develop a future-proof vision on our Tax technology strategy, through a.o. benchmark/networking with the industry to continually refine our own Tax approach and the Data & Technology Strategy specifically. Implement that vision through your and other functions’ teams.
- Supporting business growth by encouraging your team(s) to have a deep focus and understanding of the business needs, and develop and validate innovative (tax technology) solutions
- Support with setting the Tax strategy and priorities for the tax department
- Contribute to forming the company’s stand on tax policy, including participation at policy events (OECD etc.)
- Given the interaction with senior leadership stakeholders on complicated and strategic topics, strong communication skills are key. You are expected to provide world class support and answers to questions from stakeholders of the company, Booking Holdings, other brands, our Auditors and the Audit Committee in a fast and helpful manner. Networking is key and you need to be comfortable engaging with the highest executives within our company.
- Collaborate closely with management and leadership of other departments to ensure alignment in strategy and implementation on various business and product matters.
- Challenge, clarify, think out of the box where needed and act decisively
- Keep in mind the details, but focus on the bigger and more complex picture
- Own the professional development of the Tax department, actively upskilling everyone to deal with an increasingly complex, data driven environment
- Due to the rapid changes in the organization, the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.
