Travel and Expense Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Oversee the policy for expense reporting, including submission, review, approval, and processing timelines.

• Recommend updates to the policy to the Head of Group Accounting.

• Gather and assess employee and contractor expense reports for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.

• Provide support on expense policies and address queries and system issues raised by employees and contractors.

• Ensure accurate recording of entity, cost center, project, expense category, and tax-treatment dimensions.

• Record approved expenses and related advances.

• Monthly reconcile outstanding advances and ensure the return of unused advances within statutory deadlines.

• Align corporate card transactions with expense reports and maintain the corporate cardholder register.

• Assist the Accounts Payable team with vendor and invoice management, documentation verification, and approval oversight.

• Aid in month-end and year-end closing procedures, which include AP accruals, reclassifications, and account reconciliations.

• Contribute to the implementation and enhancement of accounting systems and tools.

• Support various ad hoc accounting projects and tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a similar discipline.

• 2–3 years of pertinent experience in travel and expense accounting, employee advances, or accounts payable.

• Familiarity with expense documentation, approval controls, and relevant local legal and tax obligations in the covered locations, with local advisor support as necessary.

• Proficiency in expense-management and ERP/accounting systems.

• Strong Excel capabilities and the ability to review a large volume of supporting documents.

• Excellent attention to detail, commitment to confidentiality, service orientation, and management of deadlines.

• Proficient in English at a B2 level or higher.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Privacy and personal data rights, including access, rectification, erasure, and the right to object to processing.