Senior Payments Program Lead

Booking.com; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Booking.com is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Payments to independently lead complex, cross‑functional payments initiatives within Finance and FinTech. Based in Amsterdam, you will drive end‑to‑end delivery, align with sponsors, and ensure operational readiness across payout, reconciliation and related processes.

You will collaborate with Finance Order to Cash, Accounting, Treasury, Tax and Product teams, translating business needs into concrete plans and delivering scalable payments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5–8 years of relevant project management experience.
• Experience delivering payments‑related projects.
• Experience across Finance, operational and technology teams in a large, international organisation.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead high‑complexity, business‑critical payments initiatives from discovery and scoping through execution, rollout, stabilisation and closure.
• Define the problem, intended outcomes, scope boundaries and delivery approach with sponsors and functional owners; assess options and recommend a practical implementation strategy.
• Ensure changes address the end‑to‑end payment flow and downstream Finance and operational impacts, rather than optimising individual workstreams in isolation.
• Develop project charters and business cases with clear objectives, measurable success criteria and estimated costs.
• Translate requirements into an integrated delivery plan covering workstreams, milestones and dependencies.
• Lead governance forums and maintain clear decision logs; communicate updates to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Payments knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Agile/Hybrid delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Booking.com is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Payments to independently lead complex, cross‑functional payments initiatives within Finance and FinTech. Based in Amsterdam, you will drive end‑to‑end delivery, align with sponsors, and ensure operational readiness across payout, reconciliation and related processes.

You will collaborate with Finance Order to Cash, Accounting, Treasury, Tax and Product teams, translating business needs into concrete plans and delivering scalable payments