Senior Analyst, Global Travel & Expense

Paul Hastings, LLP; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Paul Hastings, LLP. Senior Analyst, Global Travel & Expense will own the firm’s travel, expense, and card program operations within Global Accounts Payable.

The role covers policy governance, card program management, controls, audit readiness, and performance reporting, partnering with attorneys and business leaders. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep T&E expertise and strong controls mindset.

Qualifications

• Authority on travel and expense policy governance.
• Monitor exception management framework and trend reporting.
• Perform root cause analysis on recurring policy exceptions and spend.
• Govern approval routing and delegation integrity within the T&E platform.
• Identify gaps and develop practical policy guidance.
• Partner with Travel, Finance leadership and stakeholders on policy updates.

Responsibilities

• T&E Policy Governance & Exception Management: act as policy authority and provide documented disposition recommendations.
• Corporate & Purchasing Card Program Ownership: own the card programs end-to-end, onboarding, limits, monitoring, reporting.

Skills

Policy governance

Exception management

Root cause analysis

T&E controls

Analytics

Job description

Paul Hastings is a leading international law firm that provides innovative legal solutions to many of the world’s top financial institutions and Fortune Global 500 companies. With a strong presence throughout the U.S., Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, we have the global reach and extensive capabilities to provide personalized service wherever our clients’ needs take us. As one of the world’s leading law firms, we seek dynamic individuals who share our commitment to service, innovation, and professional growth.

Job Title

Senior Analyst, Global Travel & Expense

Location

Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.

Regular/Temporary

Regular

Job Description Summary

We have an opening for a Senior Analyst, Global Travel & Expense.

The Senior Analyst, Global Travel & Expense is the dedicated owner of the firm’s travel, expense, and card program operations within Global Accounts Payable at Paul Hastings. Reporting to the Global AP Compliance Program Manager, this role owns the Travel & Expense (“T&E”) policy governance, corporate and purchasing card program management, T&E controls and audit readiness, exception management and root cause analysis, T&E reporting and analytics, and the T&E platform workstreams within the firm’s AP transformation. Where Processors execute expense transactions, the Senior Analyst governs the program around them — setting the standard, measuring performance, protecting the control environment, and fixing what breaks at the source. This role serves as the firm’s authority on expense policy and card programs, partnering with attorneys, partners, business leaders, HR, Payroll, Travel, and Procurement on matters that are often sensitive and rarely black-and-white. This is not just a processing position. It demands deep end-to-end T&E expertise, strong controls mindset, analytical rigor, and the judgment and presence to be a trusted partner across the firm.

Job Description

In this capacity, the Senior Analyst, Global T&E will:

_ T&E Policy Governance & Exception Management _

• Serve as the firm’s authority on travel and expense policy, interpreting requirements for complex, high-value, and escalated scenarios and making documented disposition recommendations to AP leadership;

• Monitor the T&E exception management framework — identification, classification, escalation protocols, resolution tracking, and trend reporting — aligned to the broader AP exception framework;

• Perform root cause analysis on recurring policy exceptions, late submissions, and out-of-policy spend, translating findings into concrete policy, process, or system changes;

• Govern approval routing and delegation integrity within the T&E platform, partnering with HR and system administrators to ensure approving hierarchies, thresholds, and exceptions are accurate, documented, and controlled;

• Identify gaps where policy does not address emerging expense scenarios (e.g., trial and litigation support expenses, non-employee and contractor reimbursements, international and multi-entity expenses) and lead the development of clear, practical guidance; and

• Partner with Travel, Finance leadership, and practice and business operations stakeholders on policy updates, communication, and adoption.

_ Corporate & Purchasing Card Program Ownership _

• Own the firm’s corporate and purchasing card programs end-to-end: program policy, cardholder onboarding, limit management, deactivation, transaction monitoring, and program performance reporting;

• Serve as the firm’s primary operational contact for card issuers and program providers (e.g., Wells Fargo WellsOne, AMEX etc.), managing relationships