Role Summary
The Expense Audit Accountant is responsible for reviewing, validating, and ensuring the accuracy and compliance of employee expense reports and corporate card transactions in accordance with company policies and applicable regulations. This role plays a key part in maintaining financial integrity by monitoring travel and expense (T&E) activities, identifying irregularities, and supporting process improvements to enhance efficiency and control.
Responsibilities:
- Assure all T&E and P-card expense reports qualify for reimbursement per the Flowserve T&E policy. As exceptions to the policy occur, assure sensitive yet clear and candid communication to impacted employee is timely.
- Identifies inconsistencies in daily data interface, corrects the inconsistency or escalates the problem to the next level, and have a continuous follow up on issues
- Handle complex Flowserve internal traveler and other employee requests and inquires according to the Flowserve SLAs
- Support the month end close activities and have a deep understanding of the process
- Assure accuracy of ledger account coding through rigorous training, follow-up and understanding of the available information necessary to assure complete and accurate processing.
- Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with Flowserve employees and stakeholders to assure a healthy service level.
- Review payment runs to ensure data accuracy
- Train and mentor other team members
- Ensure compliance with Flowserve policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as defined by Flowserve (GAAP), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within Flowserve ethical code of business conduct.
- Create and update Desktop Procedure Documentation
- Lead or participate projects as required
- Lead calls and meetings
- Have an overview on and report daily tasks, issues, priorities to the supervisor
- Perform other ad-hoc tasks defined by the direct leader or above
Requirements:
- 3-5 years’ work experience preferably in multi-national company accounting or auditing platform
- Have completed or in progress an Economics/Finance related Secondary Studies or Bachelor’s degree
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Any additional languages would be a plus but not essential.
- Higher user-level Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint knowledge
- Strong knowledge of ERP systems (such as Oracle, SAP)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders
- Have strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills
- Keen attention to details
- Proactively recognizes process gaps and drive process changes
- Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage)
- High tolerance for multi-tasking
- Excellent team player
- Ability to train and mentor other team members
