Principal Specialist/ Counsel, Financial Crime & Compliance

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Agoda

Bangkok, Thailand

Hybrid

Posted April 15, 2026

Job Description

About Agoda

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.

The Opportunity

Agoda’s Financial Crime Compliance team, within the broader Compliance & Ethics function, is responsible for preventing and detecting the full spectrum of financial crime, sanctions, and regulatory risks across a fast-growing, tech driven global travel business.

Within Booking Holdings, a new, stand‑alone B2B entity will consolidate the B2B businesses of Booking.com, Priceline and Agoda into a single global division. The new division will bring together our strategic partnerships, affiliate & API distribution, corporate and wholesale travel and other B2B commercial channels into one integrated platform serving airlines, travel management companies, OTAs, financial institutions, platforms and other strategic partners. You will work closely with colleagues at Booking Holdings Inc., Booking Holdings Financial Services, and sister brands, as well as internal partners across FinTech, Product, Fraud, Legal, Internal Audit, People, and Supply, to launch and support the new B2B business.

Reporting to the Agoda Senior Director, Compliance Officer, you will be the senior financial crime and 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 financial crime risk management (FCRM) and control framework, lead end to end Know Your Customer (KYC)/Know Your Partner (KYP) due diligence, and provide pragmatic, risk-based advice to senior stakeholders.

The role is predominantly focused on financial crime (including AML, sanctions, and FCRM frameworks for payments), alongside responsibilities across the broader Compliance & Ethics programme (Code of Conduct, company compliance policies, etc).

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.

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