Concur Travel & Expense Tool
Professional with experience in corporate travel management. Proven expertise in visa and immigration processes, vendor management and expense management. Adept at optimizing budgets and enhancing stakeholders communication, ensuring seamless travel experiences while maintaining compliance and cost-efficiency. Strong operational management and customer service skills.
· Handled end-to-end visa and immigration processes for business travelers and expatriates, including USA (B1/B2, H-1B, L1), UK, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Philippines, Colombia, and Schengen countries—ensuring timely documentation, consular appointments, and compliance with immigration laws.
· Collaborated with HR to facilitate work permit applications and assist employees with relocation documentation for long-term assignments abroad, streamlining mobility processes across company’s overseas locations mainly USA, Philippines and Canada.
· Developed standardized visa checklists, streamlining the visa application process.
· Liaised with service providers and consular partners to manage visa documentation and processing for international business travel, ensuring compliance with host country regulations and minimizing visa processing delays.
· Ensured on-time visa application submissions through close coordination with TMC.
· Responded promptly and accurately to visa-related queries from employees and stakeholders, providing guidance and end-to-end assistance throughout the visa application process.
· Handled and oversaw all aspects of domestic and international travel arrangements, including flight bookings, hotel accommodations, and visa processing, ensuring a seamless travel experience aligned with corporate travel policies.
· Ensured employees selects least logical fare options for both domestic and international flights, balancing cost-efficiency with travel convenience in accordance with corporate travel policies.
· Closely worked with the Concur development team in setting up and customizing the Concur self-booking tool aligning with organizational travel policies.
· Collaborated with in-house development teamto set up and customize internal travel tool, enhancing user experience and aligning with organizational travel policies.
· Monitored use of internal travel tools to ensure proper travel request initiation and approval workflows were consistently followed.
· Reviewed corporate travel tool performance and collaborated with the development team to implement system improvements based on user feedback and evolving business needs.
· Managed employee cab requests across Pan India by coordinating with approved service providers, ensuring timely, safe, and cost-effective ground transportation.
· Managed the in-house travel fleet consisting of company-owned vehicles for senior leadership at the Bengaluru location, ensuring timely availability, driver coordination.
· Designed travel policies and projected corporate travel budgets to optimize spend and enhance compliance.
· Managed and nurtured strong relationships with travel agencies and vendors, ensuring high service quality, favorable contract terms, and alignment with corporate travel objectives.
· Facilitated hotel rate negotiations between procurement and travel vendors, achieving competitive corporate pricing and service agreements.
· Prepared and analyzed monthly travel budget reports, tracking travel spend trends and providing insights to management for cost control and policy refinement.
· Managed monthly provisioning of travel-related transactions with vendors, ensuring accurate invoice reconciliation and timely submission to Finance for prompt vendor payments.
· Ensured accurate inclusion of GST numbers on vendor invoices, maintaining compliance with tax regulations and supporting smooth processing by the Finance team.
· Coordinated the collection of NDCs from vendors, supporting accurate financial documentation and audit readiness.
· Ensured timely and efficient travel and logistics management for Partners and Managers, including flight bookings, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation, delivering a seamless end-to-end travel experience.
· Managed executive calendar management.
· Managed and submitted various expense claims (medical, travel, telecom, fuel) for partners to Finance via Concur expense tool, ensuring accurate documentation and timely reimbursements in compliance with company policy.
· Executed end-to-end project administration tasks in Oracle ERP tool, including project setup, code management, funding updates, and invoice processing (generation, cancellation, adjustments.
· Raised Purchase Requisitions (PR) and Purchase Orders (PO) for vendor invoices related to professional services and database subscriptions using Oracle ERP tool.
· Ensured timely and efficient travel and logistics management for Partners and Managers, including flight bookings, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation, delivering a seamless end-to-end travel experience.
· Handled Senior General Manager’s extensive calendar management.
· Updating and monitoring teams Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure alignment with business goals.
· Quickly adapted to and learned new office technologies as they were implemented, ensuring seamless integration into daily workflows and supporting team productivity.
· Provided E-Sugam support to the procurement team ensuring timely support for procurement of materials from suppliers.
· Managed and submitted various expense claims (medical, travel, telecom, fuel) for partners to Finance via in house expense tool, ensuring accurate documentation and timely reimbursements in compliance with company policy.
· Managed day-to-day administrative activities, and acting as a coordinator to the service Engineers team, ensuring smooth operational support.
· Accountable for managing the imprest amount for office expenses, ensuring accurate tracking, timely disbursement, and proper documentation of petty cash usage
· Managed bill collection and payment coordination with Accounts for utilities and vendors, ensuring timely settlements.
· Managed office procurement by generating POs through internal ERP, supporting efficient purchasing and inventory control.
· Monitored employee attendance (manual & biometric) and submitted reports to HR and management to support workforce tracking.
· Updated engineers' schedules, received and recorded service reports, and managed the dispatch of invoices to customers, ensuring timely service delivery and billing accuracy.
· Created spare part estimates, Pro-Forma invoices, and DCs to support efficient and accurate consignment handling
· Followed up with customers for payments related to services and spare parts, and ensured timely collection and reconciliation of outstanding dues
· Managed fuel/travel claims for service engineers, screened invoices, and liaised with Accounts for reimbursements.
· Handled clients insurance process for U.S.-based employees, ensuring accurate documentation, timely enrollments, and effective coordination with insurance providers.
· Managed insurance deductions and headcount billing for various employee health benefit plans, ensuring accurate processing and coordination with clients payroll team.
· Performed monthly payroll-billing reconciliations and resolved discrepancies in clients HR/payroll data to maintain data integrity.
· Addressed employee insurance-related queries on payroll via email, ensuring prompt resolution and clear communication regarding policy details and deductions.
· Followed up with clients on statutory payments and performed reconciliation of received payments, ensuring accurate financial reporting.
· Maintained and regularly updated process documentation, and facilitated staff training to ensure adherence to procedures and knowledge consistency.
· Managed customer service for global hotel reservations via an online booking platform.
· Managed hotel reservations related queries and complaint emails, providing prompt and effective customer support.
· Coordinated with accommodation suppliers for global hotel reservations, including handling amendments and cancellations, ensuring smooth booking experiences for customers.
· Handled customer credit card transactions online, including deductions, refunds, and processing of amendment and cancellation charges.
· Managed a team of 20 consultants under the guidance and support of the Team Leader, ensuring alignment with performance goals, operational efficiency.
· Maintained high client satisfaction by focusing on quality, performance, and strict adherence to SLAs.
· Conducted training sessions for consultants on business processes, ensuring process adherence across the team.
Corporate Travel Management (Domestic & International)
Concur Travel & Expense Tool
Oracle ERP
Microsoft Office Suite