Booking Holdings Romania - Fraud Analyst Intern

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

We are looking for an intern who will test, document, and visualize these flows - not to design or implement solutions, but to provide a clear, objective view of where our biggest vulnerabilities and blind spots are today.

This role provides a determined contract of 6 months, a working schedule of 6 hours/day and a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Your focus is to map reality, stress-test flows, and make risk visible.

• Document end-to-end flows for key areas.

• Walk through existing journeys in test/staging.

• Translate existing questions from stakeholders (Fraud, Partnerships, Product, PPC, etc.) into a structured list of assumptions, gaps and dependencies.

• Build clear visualizations (e.g. swimlane diagrams, system/data flow diagrams, risk heatmaps).

• Work closely with Fraud Analytics, Marketing/Fraud, Partnerships, Product, and IAM.

Important: This role is not about designing new fraud controls or running operations. It is about testing what exists, exposing vulnerabilities, and creating clarity so product and fraud teams can act.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 0 - 1 years of relevant experience.

• Bachelor's Degree or currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program (e.g. Data/Business Analytics, Information Systems, Security/Risk, Economics, or similar).

• Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail; comfortable working with complex systems and edge cases.

• Ability to document processes clearly and create clean visualizations (e.g. Miro, Lucidchart, draw.io, Figma, or similar).

• Basic familiarity with data analysis (e.g. SQL, Excel; Python or R is a plus) to understand dashboards and simple extracts.

• Genuine interest in fraud, online platforms, or partner/marketing ecosystems.

• Strong communication skills in English; able to ask precise questions and summarize findings concisely.

Benefits & Perk s

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.