Travel Accountant Job Description
Travel accountant
provides guidance to international field offices to ensure that the international accounting systems, RTI corporate policies and field office accounting procedures are consistently applied.
Travel Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide Concur reporting
Upload employee files onto Concur (T&E Specialist)
Audit (check) T&E claims
Trains partners on system and process changes
Analyzes and reconciles central credit card accounts
Process Travel Agent Commissions using our Lodging Management System (AS400), TourPartner, and VisualOne
Work with the reservations, accounts payable, and vendor setup departments to ensure accurate and timely payments to Travel Agents
Ensure that TourPartner books daily accounting entries correctly
Assist with travel accounting processes including vendor payments
Complete monthly journal entries to ensure accurate accounting within GAAP standards
Travel Accountant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Travel Accountant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the travel accountant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business/Administration, Education, Economics, Management, Business Studies, Graduate, Business, General Business
Skills for Travel Accountant
Desired skills for travel accountant include:
Basic Accounting Principals
Concur
Cost controls and performance metrics
Excel
IT driven accounting environment
International travel customs and currencies
MS Office
Manual processes for adherence to accounting practice and principles
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft office applications and working experience with spreadsheets
Desired experience for travel accountant includes:
Reconcile balance sheet accounts (Including Commission Payables and Account Receivable accounts, among others) and complete variance analysis monthly
PeopleSoft Financials (Preferred)
Ability to work as an integral member of a self-directed work team with strict performance requirements
Ability to be flexible and perform a variety of functional roles at any time to achieve business needs
Handle employees queries
Correspond with Travel Agents via email and phone calls
Travel Accountant Examples
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Travel Accountant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of travel accountant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for travel accountant
- Answer questions related to TourPartner bookings for internal and external customers
- Prepare and Posting for Monthly Manual Sales, Bonus, Leave Provision, TR Expatriate, GM and G&A expenses accruals
- Complete and submit NY HFM package for Singapore Branch
- Prepare appropriate journal entries on a weekly basis for upload into Great Plains ERP system
- Identify and implement key performance metrics and processes
- Function as program administrator for company card account
- Establish card programs as necessary in new regions
- Liaise with company card provider to resolve cardholder issues
- Review all expense reports for compliance with Company policy
- Provide customer service, training and support of expense reimbursement system and travel booking service
Qualifications for travel accountant
- Partner with other members of the Group to resolve accounting issues and drive leading practices
- ACA/CPA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified Accountant
- Ideally 2+ years' post qualification experience within a similar role
- Willing to travel to Europe up to 75% of the time
- Ambitious and enthusiastic about the work that you do
- University degree either in Economics/Accountancy/Finance/International relations
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of travel accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for travel accountant
- Coordinate reimbursement and reporting of all travel related expenses of Board members and consultants
- Serve as requestor to the ERP system for all contracted travel agencies, assuring proper coding
- Update travel policy as necessary in conjunction with operating and executive committees
- Provide third party international payroll provider with expense report details for inclusion in payroll
- Register arrived Travel and Expense Reports
- Review and prepare necessary compliance check
- Follow up on arrived expense reports
- Communicate and support travelers
- Correct and communicate out of policy items
- Follow up and send out reminder to traveler and manager of unassigned items in buffer and unassigned expense reports
Qualifications for travel accountant
- 0-3 years’ experience in accounting or book keeping capacity
- Preparing timely and accurate financial analysis in area of Payroll, Travel and Compensation accrual accounting in accordance with US GAAP, IFRS, corporate accounting practices and Local Statutory & Tax requirements
- Performing maintenance of assigned general ledger accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and general ledger entries
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
- 5+ years in heavy volume travel and expense reporting
- Knowledge of standard expense reporting policies, procedures and regulations
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a travel accountant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for travel accountant
- Drives process improvement by identifying and developing more efficient procedures within the Concur platform while maintaining a high level of accuracy
- Complete system testing and Concur integration testing for new audit rules/changes in configuration
- Archive Travel and Expense Reports where needed
- Support employees with travelers tools such as Corporate Card Program, Travel Policy and T&E application
- Solving of issues occurred while booking travels and expenses
- Initiate payments of T&E claims (not for the same companies that T&E accountant audits)
- Monitor T&E file transfers, solve issues (T&E Specialist)
- Monitor information flow and handle errors
- Handle GORDON orders (T&E Specialist)
- Prepares cost/revenue analysis, overhead analysis, , and related variance analysis
Qualifications for travel accountant
- Preferably finance and accounting degree
- Work experience on Accounts Payable/Travel&Expense field is a plus (preferably SSC)
- Communicative and problem solving personality
- 3+ years of Accounting Experience (mortgage industry a plus)
- Flexibility to changes and deadlines
- Team Player and problem solving personality
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of travel accountant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for travel accountant
- Knowledge of SAP/Concur will be an asset
- Maintain a working knowledge on the end-to-end process of Travel and Expense process in order to efficiently close items and properly address issues as they may arise
- Adherence, performance, and documentation of related Controls (if any) and ensure that these are being done with utmost quality at a prescribed timing
- Perform accrual accounting and other month-end activities (as necessary) ensuring data integrity
- Participate in further improvement and optimization of Travel and Expense processes, procedures in Finance and Accounting
- Handle higher level concerns, complex tasks such as detailed reporting, data presentation and analysis
- Classifying billable vs
- Detailed unbilled analysis
- Oversee the corporate travel card program for over 4,000+ associates based in the US, UK and Canada, oversee 5 central company cards for airfare charges
- Support the global expansion of the corporate travel card program by building partnerships with L Brands’ offices in China, Hong Kong and India
Qualifications for travel accountant
- Bachelor's Degree (position suitable for fresh graduates)
- High levels of personal organization
- A Bachelor’s Degree with a focus on Accounting
- Knowledge of accrual based accounting
- Ability to work in a collaborative manner in a team-based environment and able to interact with all levels of the organization
- Ability to use creative approaches to challenges
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a travel accountant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for travel accountant
- Review and analyze corporate travel card spend to ensure cardholders are in compliance with enterprise policies and identify any trends in expense activity or policy compliance
- Reconcile corporate travel card activity, post journal entries, and ensure all charges are accrued and recorded correctly for month-end close
- Build strong relationships with several team within L Brands
- Continually identify and implement improvements to the corporate travel card program and related processes
- Respond to phone and e-mail inquiries from associates regarding enterprise policies, corporate card questions, payment status and other issues in a timely and accurate manner
- Complete ad-hoc or periodic analysis and reporting projects to summarize various items such as expense activity, trending and/or policy compliance issues, and share with senior finance leaders and controllers across business units as applicable
- Proactively identify areas of opportunity, recommend solutions and implement improvements for achieving optimal efficiency and effectiveness in a controlled environment
- Partner with manager to maintain departmental metrics, service level agreements and benchmarking
- Work closely with the internal reimbursement audit team regarding administration of the total travel card program
- Review and approval of T&E reports per corporate accounting guidelines and local statutory requirements
Qualifications for travel accountant
- Proactive, attentive to details and demonstrated sense of urgency in completing assignments
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility and change in a dynamic environment
- Ability to prioritize workloads and meet tight deadlines
- Personal integrity, high level of respect for all individuals
- Knowledge of or ability to learn Oracle Financials or other related financial software
- BS Accountancy or a graduate of any business course