Job description
Finance Assistant – Travel & Expenses
Role Summary: Act as a support to the Finance Manager by completing daily and monthly T&E tasks for the areas of credit cards, T&E supporting/training and approvals.
Responsibilities:
- Approvals
- Be the go-to person for all T&E related queries
- Timely review and approval of all travel request
- Timely review and approval of all employee’s expenses
- Pro-actively work with employees to ensure we have no aged balances every month
- Provide training and support to employees to resolve queries
- Assist with delegates and responding to queries on a timely manner
- Ensure all expenses comply with company’s policy and escalate issues as necessary
- Work with our Shared Service team to ensure open issues are resolved and all open tickets are resolved
- Work closely with Management Accounts team to ensure there is sufficient budget and correct job numbers and being used before approving expense claims
- Work closely with Management Accounts to ensure workflow chasers are sent out to card holders
- Process improvements and policy updates
- Adhoc requests as when required by senior team, such as assisting with Travel invoice coding
- Approvals & Control
- Ensure accurate and up to date approvals for all transactions in our systems
- Reconciliations and review of all company’s cards
- Keep appropriate documentation across all the control areas for audit purposes
- Maintain great attention to detail and accuracy in the different areas of responsibility
- Relationship Management
- Ongoing liaison with employees to ensure no aged balances on all company’s cards
- Be a problem solver and raise any issues in a timely manner with the view to find appropriate resolution
- Previous experience working with company credit cards
- Good excel skills and Microsoft office
- Fast learner with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Great attention to detail and communication skills