As a Travel and Expense (T&E) Senior Manager, you will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and roadmap for the travel and expense function on a global scale.

• Manage all Travel and Expense activities, ensuring accurate, reliable, timely deliverables that meet or exceed quality standards, including but not limited to:
• Actively monitor and manage:
  • Travel and expense management.
  • Periodic review of process metrics to ensure compliance to policies and global process.
  • Proactive communication with global stakeholders and businesses, to ensure compliance and reinforce the same to employees.
  • Regular escalations and training for Noncompliance to policies.
  • Period review of polices and process with the Global Process Owner and Operations Process Owner (OPO) to ensure consistency with market.
  • External benchmarking of policies and procedures to review and enhance best practices and implement efficient processes.
• Drive achievement of metric targets and develop timely action plans to address any results that are out of compliance with established expectations.
• Prepare audit documentation and perform analysis in support of the Company’s various internal and external audit activities.
• Manage relationships with our external partners and ensure their performance is in line with expectations.

Lead an organization with a strong focus on Compliance, accuracy and timeliness while seeking continuous improvements in the T&E process through:

• Partnering with GPOs and Operations Process Owner (OPO) to recommend and implement innovative approaches that will provide a future road map for the T&E process with efficiency and compliance in mind.
• Partnering with Regional and other stakeholders like HR & Legal to build a process around Non-Compliance.
• Consistently provide guidance, mentorship and coaching to managers, Staff, and senior accountants in the T&E team, including drafting and conducting performance reviews and delivering real-time feedback throughout the year with a focus on employee development and career/organizational planning
• Proactively identify and provide solutions for problems that arise, communicate such to OPO
• Proactively identify situations and areas where to insert self into situations to resolve open issues or avoid escalations
• Lead business initiatives and projects

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• 14+ years of applicable experience in Travel and Expense domain with additional experience in implementation of Concur.
• Experience in implementation of AI based tools and Dashboards in the Travel and expense domain would be preferred.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of overall accounting operations.
• Strong PC skills with required proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong verbal, written and negotiation skills.
• High degree of professionalism – able to interact verbally and in writing with all levels of the organization and with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. suppliers). Strong negotiation skills.
• Prior experience working for a large multinational corporation, preferably one headquartered in the United States
• Prior experience working in a Shared Service environment.
• Extensive experience in a Supervisory role. (Managed greater than 10-member team)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Oracle and SAP experience a plus

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 2+ years of Finance, Accounting, or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.