Expense Management Supervisor

This is a Full Time Job


The Role
The Travel & Expense Supervisor (T&E) will support our Travel & Expense Manager in overseeing the T&E team's activities. This role involves providing guidance, ensuring process compliance, and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve efficient expense management. The T&E Supervisor will assist the T&E Manager with approving expense reports for reimbursement, preparing reporting and month-end deliverables, making card program payments, as well as covering Concur administrative duties.

Responsibilities
• Expense Report Processing: Review & approve expense reports submitted through the Concur platform, verifying compliance with company policies and guidelines (Final Review).
• On-Site Collaboration: Support the training and onboarding of new T&E team members, ensuring they understand processes and procedures. Work closely with employees to ensure timely report submission and compliance with travel & expense policies, while assisting cardholders or their assistants in person with reports that may be out of policy. Three days a week in office is expected, however, ADHOC coverage may be required as needed.
• Analysis and reporting: Monitor outstanding expense reports, escalate/socialize reports that are out of compliance and provide KPI's on outstanding reports by employee as well as reports processed by the T&E team
• Leadership: Serve as a point of contact for team inquiries, resolving issues and escalating matters to the T&E Manager when necessary.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate with other departments, such as Finance, Travel, and HR, to address cross-functional matters related to travel and expenses.
• Process Improvement: Assist with key initiatives and implementations to streamline all T&E functions.
• Month-End Close: Assist with monthly T&E accruals.
• Concur Admin: Assist manager with Concur user administration including updating employee records, assigning permissions, and managing roles. Maintain and enhance audit rules to ensure expense compliance with evolving company policies. Administer master data such as purpose codes, expense types, and custom fields. Help utilize SAP Concur Intelligence to build and schedule reports, dashboards, and KPI summaries for stakeholders.

Qualifications
• Educational Background: Accounting or Finance Degree is a plus.
• T&E Experience: Prefer Concur Travel & Expenses system knowledge; Concur Intelligent a plus.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Organizational Skills: Must be organized, detail-oriented, and able to switch focus as needed.
• Customer Service: Strong customer service experience.
• Experience Level: 3-5 years of experience.

Desired Skills
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with Concur Travel and Expense system.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Team Player: Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
• Flexibility: Adaptable to changing priorities and demands.
• Proactivity: Ability to identify and suggest improvements.

Soft Skills
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to interact effectively with employees and management.
• Attention to Detail: Keen attention to detail and accuracy.
• Time Management: Effective time management skills to meet deadlines.
• Adaptability: Flexible and adaptable to evolving business needs.
• Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Location

This is a hybrid role based in our Los Angeles, CA office.

The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.