Booking NL

Finance Operations Specialist

Posted Oct 18, 2024
Project ID: 6934-1
Location
Amsterdam, Hybrid
Hours/week
40 hrs/week
Timeline
4 months
Starts: Oct 25, 2024
Ends: Feb 28, 2025
Payrate range
25 - 46 €/hr

As an Expense Specialist you are responsible for the daily operations of the Expense Team,


responsible for all employee expense claims. You will drive changes and be responsible for


enhancement of reporting, KPI’s and audit rules in Concur and AppZen.


As an Expense Specialist you will also serve as the liaison between employee cardholders and


the issuing bank, act as point of contact to provide assistance with account issues,


delinquencies and monitoring of accounts, as well as communicate and coordinate with the


bank on behalf of Booking.com. Last but not least you will take ownership of the travel lodge


card setups and have the ability to manage multiple processes while providing an outstanding


customer experience to your internal stakeholders.


You will support innovation within the team and implement changes, collaborate closely with


department stakeholders to look for constant improvements and keep the Company’s Expense


Policy maintained and relevant.



RESPONSIBILITIES:


General responsibilities


● Ensure that daily activities are operating optimally and are compliant in accordance with


the company's code of conduct and compliance standards. Review, revise and


implement changes as required


● Support innovation within Booking’s expense and credit card practice and implement


changes


● Prepare analysis of credit card accounts that are aged and take actions to resolve the


aged balances


● Ensure compliance in adherence to the global credit card policy


● Reviewing, reconciling and approving a defined set of corporate cards


● Administer and support the development of a comprehensive gift card program


● Effectively and efficiently deal with all day-to-day corporate credit card related issues and


queries


● Collaborate with other departments and stakeholders to look for constant improvement


and keeping the Company’s Expense Policy maintained and relevant


● Participate with the testing and implementation of new tools and software


● Research and resolve expense discrepancies and issues


● Analyse existing operational processes and identify opportunities for improvement


● Review expense claims for compliance with company policy


● Ensure proper configuration of expense systems/tools, such as Concur, AppZen, etc.


and "Administer corporate credit card program


Credit Cards:


● Identify opportunities to drive value through process automation and the elimination of


process waste


● Design and produce a comprehensive suite of KPI reportage


Expenses:


● Ensure all expense reports are processed in accordance with the Travel and Expense


Policy;


● Monitor the daily feed from Concur to SAP: correct the errors and make sure the data


from Concur has correctly entered SAP;


● Process Cash Advances and monitor the aging;


● Reply and handle Zendesk tickets;


● Prepare expense data analysis, cooperating with other departments to support our


stakeholders;


● Reconcile 15+ NL Travel corporate credit cards;


● Research and resolve expense discrepancies and issues;


● Review and process 80+ corporate credit cards on a monthly basis;


● Improve current reporting, KPI’s and audit rules;



REQUIREMENTS


● 3+ years of experience in expense reimbursement/Credit Cards


● Relevant experience working in the Travel Business essential


● Profound knowledge of Concur Travel and Concur Expense


● Ability to write procedures and policies and translate them into the Booking environment


● Advanced computer skills, including a good working knowledge of Word and Excel


required


● Highly proficient in both spoken and written English


● Highly analytical and conceptual