JOB DESCRIPTION
Expense Review Unit – Team Member
Job Title:
Expense Review Unit - Team Member
Rank / Function Level:
Associate Manager
Location:
Mumbai, India
Reporting Line:
- Solid: Head of Global Accounts Payable & Receivable
- Functional: Head of Finance, MNC Bank Global Shared Services
About the Role
Join our Expense Review Unit at our MNC Bank global operations hub and contribute to maintaining compliance, accuracy, and transparency in Travel & Expense (T&E) management across the organisation.
In this role, you will help safeguard financial integrity by performing detailed reviews and supporting governance standards through effective controls and monitoring.
As a detail-oriented and proactive professional, you will ensure consistent application of global and local T&E policies, identify potential risks and deviations, and contribute to continuous process improvement.
In addition, the role places a strong emphasis on business analysis and data-driven insights, leveraging analytical tools and techniques to identify trends, enhance controls, improve decision-making, and drive operational efficiency across T&E processes.
Your Responsibilities
As part of the Expense Review Unit, you will support strong governance and effective controls over T&E activities. Key responsibilities include:
1. Expense Compliance & Controls
· Review employee expense claims and travel bookings for compliance with global and local T&E policies.
· Verify supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy, and adherence to policy.
· Identify non-compliant, duplicate, personal, or non-business-related expenses.
· Validate approval workflows to confirm proper delegation of authority and timely approvals.
· Escalate non-compliant or high-risk transactions for further review.
· Document findings and maintain audit-ready evidence for internal and external audits.
· Support projects related to expense system enhancements, including testing and validation.
· Respond to queries on expense policy interpretation and system usage.
· Communicate with employees regarding rejected claims and resolving disputes in line with policy.
2. Business Analysis, Analytics, Reporting & Insights
· Perform business analysis of T&E processes, identifying inefficiencies, control gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
· Analyse large datasets to detect anomalies, patterns, and emerging risks in expense behaviour.
· Develop and maintain automated reports and dashboards using Tableau and Excel to monitor key metrics (exception rates, policy breaches, cost drivers).
· Use SQL to extract, clean, and analyse large volumes of expense data from backend systems.
· Analyse historical trend data to detect anomalies, recurring issues, and opportunities for control enhancement.
· Prepare regular summaries and ad-hoc analysis on compliance performance, departmental spend behaviour, and policy effectiveness.
· Collaborate with Finance, Risk, and Technology teams to translate business requirements into system and reporting solutions.
· Act as a bridge between business and technical teams during system enhancements or issue resolution.
· Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by applying analytical thinking and structured problem-solving methodologies.
Professional and Technical Skills
· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
· 2–3 years of experience in expense review and processing, internal controls, compliance, or finance operations.
· Solid understanding of corporate card programmes (e.g., Amex Business, Mastercard Commercial) and their integration into T&E ecosystems for automatic feed reconciliation.
· Proven familiarity with travel management tools/platforms (e.g., SAP Concur, Workday) and corporate card programs.
· Technical proficiency in data extraction and analysis using SQL, enabling direct querying of relational databases (e.g., Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server) to validate transaction logs, trace data lineage, and perform deep-dive diagnostics on expense records.
· Hands-on experience with reporting and visualisation tools such as Tableau or Microsoft Power BI, including dashboard design, calculated field creation, and dynamic filtering for compliance monitoring.
· Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving capabilities.
· Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel (advanced) and PowerPoint.
· Ability to work independently and handle sensitive information with discretion.
· Excellent communication skills for reporting and stakeholder interaction.
Personal and Social Skills
· High integrity and strong ethical standards.
· Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented mindset.
· Strong business acumen with a continuous improvement focus.
· Professionalism and confidentiality.
· Effective communication and interpersonal skills across all organisational levels.
Pay: ₹90,000.00 - ₹125,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
