Global Travel & Expense Program Lead

ADI Global; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

ADI Global is seeking a Global Travel & Expense (T&E) Manager in Charlotte, NC to oversee our worldwide travel and expense program. You will govern policies, optimize systems, and sustain strong internal controls while delivering a streamlined employee experience.

You will lead policy documentation, system configuration, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, HR, Procurement, and Finance to align with regulatory requirements and company values.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in finance or shared services operations, with at least 2 years managing T&E or expense programs.
• Strong understanding of corporate travel programs, expense policy governance, and corporate credit card operations.
• Hands on experience administering an enterprise T&E platform (e.g., Concur, Navan, Expensify, Coupa).
• Experience operating in a SOX-compliant environment with solid internal controls knowledge.
• Proven leadership and people management experience, preferably managing analysts.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain global T&E and corporate card policies, ensuring clarity, consistency, and compliance across the organization.
• Develop and update policy documentation, user guides, and training materials as business needs evolve.
• Monitor compliance, investigate exceptions, and proactively address recurring policy violations.
• Partner with Legal, HR, Procurement, and Finance leadership to ensure policies align with regulatory requirements and company values.
• Serve as system owner and administrator for the global T&E expense platform.
• Manage and maintain system configuration including audit rules, expense types, forms, workflows, travel allowances, GL mappings, and integrations.
• Partner with IT and Finance Transformation teams on system enhancements, upgrades, new tool evaluations, and transformation opportunities.
• Drive process improvements to streamline expense submission, approval, reimbursement, and corporate card reconciliation.
• Oversee end-to-end T&E operations, including expense processing, reimbursements, corporate card management, and travel support.
• Establish and monitor KPIs and metrics to track program performance, compliance rates, cycle times, and spend trend.
• Deliver regular reporting and actionable insights to Finance leadership and key stakeholders on T&E spend and program health.
• Oversee the global corporate credit card program including issuance, usage monitoring, controls, and policy compliance.
• Partner with banks, travel management companies, and third-party vendors to manage contracts, service levels, and performance.
• Monitor expense and card activity to identify spend trends, compliance issues, and cost savings opportunities
• Ensure T&E processes adhere to internal controls and support audit readiness in a SOX-compliant environment.
• Partner with Internal Audit to support audits, address findings, and implement corrective actions.
• Monitor for fraud, duplicate submissions, out-of-policy spend, and other risk indicators.
• Maintain thorough process and control documentation to support audit readiness.

Skills

Finance/Shared services experience

T&E/policy governance

Enterprise T&E platform administration

SOX/compliance controls

Leadership & people management

Tools

Concur

Navan

Expensify

Coupa

Job description

ADI Global is seeking a Global Travel & Expense (T&E) Manager in Charlotte, NC to oversee our worldwide travel and expense program. You will govern policies, optimize systems, and sustain strong internal controls while delivering a streamlined employee experience.

You will lead policy documentation, system configuration, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, HR, Procurement, and Finance to align with regulatory requirements and company values.