Senior Manager Enterprise Spend and Travel Programs

• Establish and own the AS enterprise T&E program, including governance, operating model, Travel Vendors and performance management.
• Design and maintain end-to-end expense processes covering travel, meals, lodging, and all card-based purchases.
• Ensure consistent global standards while accommodating local statutory and regulatory requirements
• Lead the design, implementation, and rollout of a standardized corporate credit card program across AS.
• Define spend eligibility, approval thresholds, and control frameworks aligned with internal controls and audit requirements.
• Partner with IT and Finance to ensure integration with expense tools, ERP platforms, and reporting solutions.
• Standardize end-to-end processes for non-travel indirect spend across all AS divisions, replacing fragmented local practices.
• Define enterprise-standard forms of payment and approval guardrails by spend type and value (e.g., corporate card, expense reimbursement, procurement channels).
• Establish a consistent expense management process to ensure compliant capture, coding, and reporting of indirect spend.
• Own enterprise relationships with travel management companies, card providers, and related travel service partners.
• Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, renewals, and ongoing performance reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement in service quality, cost efficiency, and user experience.
• Audit Automation: Moving from "sample-based" auditing to 100% automated expense auditing using AI to flag duplicates, out-of-policy spend, or suspicious merchant categories over time
• Behavioural Analysis: Using data to identify patterns of "spend creep" or structured fraud that manual reviews miss.
• Leakage Identification: Specific responsibility for identifying purchases made outside of negotiated contracts which is a form of financial loss.
• Frictionless Mobility: A focus on "mobile-first" workflows—ensuring employees can capture receipts and approve spend on the go without manual data entry.
• Self-Service Support: Implementation of AI chatbots or conversational AI to answer, "Can I buy this?" questions instantly, reducing the load on the finance teams – also potentially linking with our gift and hospitality programs.
• Predictive Analytics: Moving beyond "reporting" (what happened) to "predictive insights" (what will happen to the budget if these trends continue).
• Generative AI Integration: Exploring how GenAI can summarize spend travel patterns or automatically draft policy exception justifications.
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation): Mentioning the automation of repetitive back-office tasks like vendor onboarding or statement reconciliation.
• Develop and maintain practical, business-aligned policies and procedures that support compliance without creating unnecessary friction.
• Monitor adherence, identify control gaps, and implement remediation actions as needed.
• Act as the escalation point for policy exceptions and complex spend scenarios.
• Define KPIs and management reporting for spend visibility, compliance, adoption, and cost optimization.
• Leverage data to identify improvement opportunities and support fact-based decision making.
• Drive automation, simplification, and standardization in alignment with broader ERP, data, and GBS transformation initiatives.

• 8–12+ years of experience in Finance Operations, Procurement, Shared Services, or enterprise program roles.
• Demonstrated ownership of T&E, corporate card programs, and/or indirect spend governance in a global environment.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, policy design, and scalable process architecture.
• Experience operating in ERP-enabled environments and partnering with IT on system implementations.
• Proven ability to drive standardization while managing stakeholder change in a matrixed organization.

• An ability to navigate a complex matrix organization
• Eye for autonomation

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