Senior Legal & Regulatory Counsel BHFS

BKNG Fintech Legal, is looking for a senior attorney with experience in leading and executing payments strategies to act as a critical partner to our business, helping develop, launch, and enable our mission to deliver a world-class payments operation to support Booking Holdings Inc’s brands globally.

The selected candidate will have the chance to witness first-hand the investment in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. As you do so, you will advise on a range of legal questions related to regulatory strategy, product development and user experience, demonstrating familiarity with global payments regulatory contexts and payments industry commercial considerations that enable product management at this scale, and define the booking experience for the future of the company.

The role demands a product-savvy, technically competent payments lawyer, potentially with deep experience in relevant areas of financial regulation. This opportunity represents an exceptional chance to embed yourself with one of the world’s most exciting organisations and help define the future for accessing travel experiences across the world.

• You will report directly to the Senior Director Legal, BHFS and will be primarily responsible for supporting regulatory legal matters related to payments and financial services in the US and Americas region. This includes advising on licensing, money transmission, BSA compliance and related matters.
• You will be a key member of the BHFS US management team and act as a trusted advisor in shaping strategy and decisions.
• You will work cross functionally on a daily basis, including directly with the BHFS US Managing Director, technology, risk, compliance and finance teams and other stakeholders across the business. You will also interact with broader senior management within BHFS and at BKNG Fintech Legal, as well as members of the Booking Holdings Global Legal Department across our subsidiary brands .
• Actively manage outside counsel to obtain clear and tailored advice on payments related regulatory initiatives and products.
• You will also work closely with the public affairs team on matters that will impact payments and financial services regulation.
• You will identify, monitor and advise on emerging payments and financial services regulatory issues impacting the BHFS business in the US region, actively identifying and anticipate changes that may affect strategic objectives, and be a thought leader on these issues.
• You will be called upon to provide timely, practical and actionable legal advice on a variety of regulated financial and payments products and services and you will need to exercise legal judgment and commercial acumen in assessing legal risks in the US.
• Your legal and strategic business advice will help develop a comprehensive, long-term approach to our relationships with key partners on all aspects of our payments operations in the US.

• 8+ years of relevant experience practicing law, with a mix of in-house and reputable law firm experience preferred.
• Law degree from a top-tier law school, and excellent academic credentials.
• Significant experience and demonstrated success advising on regulatory matters in financial services or payments, with strong knowledge of, the laws and regulations that regulate a money services business and entities with money transmission licenses (MTL), or similar payments or financial services regulatory experience advising regulated entities,
• Experience with and passion for payments and its regulation,data privacy, security, consumer protection issues in the digital environment, platform liability, marketing and advertising law, and…