Global Travel and Expense Manager at Anglo American

Job Description:

As part of this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the Travel and Expense Management processes are aligned enabling a seamless customer experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for developing and executing the Global Travel & Expense (T&E) strategy.
•  Ensures that regional T&E strategies fulfils local requirements
•  Accountable for the efficiencies and effectiveness of the end-to-end travel and expense life cycle
• Build and manage relationships within a complex business environment across various levels of seniority and diverse stakeholders across multiple geographies
• Drive operational excellence across the T&E team to ensure the evolving business needs are met and continuous improvement is the core focus
• Develop and maintain high standards of governance across the processes aligned to the organization's compliance and governance framework
• Onboarding of new vendors and ensuring that all Service Level Agreements are adhered to
• Accountable for the Expense Management delivery model globally through the SAP Concur solution.
• Drive SAP Concur systems compliance and standardization across all Business Units and Group Functions ensuring alignment with relevant Group T&E policies.
• Establish a quality assurance/audit standard to continuously perform expense spend audits.   
• Manage the change management and communication regarding any T&E changes and updates
• Develop and maintain high standards of governance across the T&E service line ensuring that all processes meet the requirements of the Group T&E policies. 
• Identify and recommend improvements to the T&E process, procedures and business controls to perform services more cost-effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree qualification, a post graduate degree will be preferred
• 10+ years’ experience in managing service delivery teams within a Travel and Expense environment

Experience:

• Proven track record of establishing and managing large end to end in-house travel and expense operations within a global context.
• Experience building and managing a high-performing team, with a genuine passion for developing talent
• Demonstrated ability to transcend between strategic thinking and operational excellence with a focus on quality, control and execution.
• Strong knowledge of travel and expense policies and procedures
• Experience in enabling technology to deliver Travel and expense services
• Experience of working in a global corporate environment
• Proficient English written and verbal communication competency
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong PC skills, with a confident approach working with MS Office and travel and expense systems