Kayak Senior Compliance Specialist at KAYAK supports Compliance & Ethics, Financial Crime Risk Management, and Regulatory programs. The role involves policy guidance, training coordination, risk assessments, and regulatory monitoring.
Responsibilities
Support the day-to-day operation of KAYAK's Compliance & Ethics, Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) programs, including policy guidance, training coordination, and monitoring activities.
Help manage conflicts of interest disclosures, gifts and entertainment reviews, and anti-bribery and corruption processes.
Coordinate Know Your Partner (KYP) and risk-based third-party due diligence for prospective and existing partners, including information collection, review, follow-up, documentation, and escalation.
Assist with sanctions and restricted-country screening, supporting the Booking Holdings Financial Crime Risk Management Centre of Excellence and escalating issues to the appropriate team members as needed.
Identify, document, and escalate potential FCRM, sanctions, ethics, and other compliance risks and issues.
Support risk assessments by gathering information, documenting findings, and tracking approved mitigation actions.
Contribute to compliance training and awareness initiatives, including the Ethics Ambassador Program and compliance communications to employees.
Support regulatory monitoring efforts — tracking new and evolving requirements across US, EU, and UK jurisdictions and helping translate them into actionable guidance for the business.
Help maintain and improve self-service compliance resources, including policies, procedures, process flows, trackers, evidence repositories, and the internal compliance knowledge hub.
Support periodic monitoring, control testing, compliance audits, and preparation of concise reports and management updates.
Identify and support opportunities to use approved AI-enabled tools and workflow automation to streamline compliance processes, while maintaining appropriate human review, data protection, and audibility.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners in People & Culture, Finance, Product, and Engineering on compliance-related matters
