12mth FTC, Senior Associate, Operations, Expenses, Belfast

Senior Associate – Core Business Services – Belfast

UK EY Operations Expense Senior Associate

As a UK EY Operations Expense Senior Associate you will play a key role in preapproval and post expense claim monitoring of our people.

The opportunity

The newly established UK preapprovals team will ensure staff and partner compliance with our travel and expenses policy, our hospitality, gifts and favours policy and our business resilience policy following the launch of our new ExpenD tool and associated processes. 

The UK EY Operations Expense Senior Associate will be part of a small team focused on operational governance and control, reporting directly to a Manager within the team. 

Your key responsibilities

• Operating as a Level 1 expense approver for ExpenD.  This will entail reviewing requests which may include:
• Preapproval requests for out of policy items – detailed knowledge of our T&E policy required.
• Preapproval requests for expenses within the Level 1 approver thresholds
• Working with other Level 1 expense approvers in the team to ensure a consistent experience is received by our people on submission of ExpenD preapproval requests.
• Liaising with staff, partners and EAs to understand the business rationale behind expense claims, and to support compliance with our T&E policy, Hospitality, Gifts and Favours policy and Business Resilience policy (where relevant).
• Using judgement to escalate potential issues to team managers.
• Analysing and providing insight on expense claim trends.
• Other operational projects as required.

Skills & attributes for success

• Ability to work in a complex, dynamic environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong numeracy skills, with ability to turn raw data into useful information
• High attention to detail
• Ability to develop strong working relationships across function areas and through layers of seniority