# Principal Compliance Specialist

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Bangkok, Thailand
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As the building block that provides a solid baseline for Agoda’s culture of integrity, the Compliance & Ethics team is at the forefront of driving and maintaining the company’s compliance program and managing regulatory risks across a fast‑growing, tech‑driven global travel business.

You will be the senior 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 compliance risk management and control framework and provide pragmatic, risk-based advice to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Play a central role in helping design and implement the Compliance foundations of the new consolidated B2B business

- Lead and support day‑to‑day Compliance & Ethics initiatives

- Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor on broader Compliance & Ethics topics

- Shape and enhance Agoda’s Compliance & Ethics framework

- Design and oversee practical review processes for gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest disclosures, third‑party due diligence, risk assessments, and related monitoring

- Collaborate with the Global Compliance & Ethics team on third‑party risk management initiatives and conflicts of interest processes

- Support or lead elements of compliance‑related reviews and investigations

- Develop, implement, and continuously refine compliance policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures (SOPs)

- Support the design, delivery, and refresh of compliance training programmes

- Promote a strong ethical culture through awareness campaigns, employee engagement initiatives, and regular collaboration with key functions and leadership

- Partner closely with cross‑functional teams to embed compliance requirements into products, processes, and day‑to‑day decision‑making

- Drive continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives

- Prepare or support management updates, reporting materials, and other compliance‑related communications

- Take on additional and ad hoc responsibilities as needed to strengthen the Compliance & Ethics function

- Support the development, implementation and continuous enhancement of the financial crime risk management framework

- Assist in areas of financial crime risk management such as testing and monitoring and annual risk assessment process

Requirements:

- 8+ years of progressive experience in compliance risk management regulatory compliance

- Significant cards and payments experience

- Proven track record in building, enhancing, or independently assessing compliance risk management frameworks for payments

- Hands‑on experience designing, operating, or overseeing a corporate compliance framework

- Strong ability to translate legal and regulatory compliance into clear, pragmatic controls and processes

- Demonstrated success in influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders across functions

- Strong project and programme management skills

- Excellent communication skills in English

## Skills

### Required
- compliance risk management
- regulatory compliance
- payments experience
- compliance framework
- risk assessments
- controls design
- governance
- third-party due diligence
- investigations
- escalation
- complex case handling
- project management
- programme management
- communication skills

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