- Office in Mumbai
Main Purpose:
To control the Group’s travel & expense cost by doing strong analytics, implementing robust processes, providing insightful reports to senior management, and establishing a professional but strict relationship with service providers and participantsKnowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Requirements:
- Basic understanding of management accounting
- Travel Industry experience - knowledge of booking systems, terminology and rules
- Reporting capabilities; must understand the importance of punctuality, consistency, integrity and layout of reports
- Good analytics: being able to analyse raw data to find anomalies and data patterns and deliver actionable insights to influence / support decision making
- Technical background: must be able to handle data files, load them into Excel or databases, transform raw data into relevant data sets, slice & dice data to identify patterns and eventually design own databases or build tools / reports to automate / standardize periodic data analysis and reporting activities. Working knowledge of SQL will be useful.
- Strong personality, not shy: must communicate with senior people; having discussions about their behaviour if they don’t comply to the rules
- Negotiation with suppliers – global Airlines, Hotels, Travel and Payment Partner
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people
Responsibilities:
- Monitor Global Travel and Mobile data to identify fare optimisation opportunities, liaise with the traveller and travel partner to improve cost efficiency
- Monitor global mobile data to identify price optimisation opportunities, liaise with the office manager and service provider to improve cost efficiency
- Download monthly data from Travel service provider portals (Air, Rail, Hotel) into our systems. Analyse data for anomalies, highlight issues, liaise with traveller / service provider for resolution and propose effective alternate solutions
- Download monthly data from systems and analyse data for anomalies, highlight issues, liaise with employee/ service provider for resolution
- Drive corporate travel policy compliance globally. Identify, investigate and report non-compliance. Reconcile travel data with invoices and approve them
- Prepare monthly reports on cost per department, location, person; trends; and report to Senior Management
- Review of Top Spenders and analyze high mobile usage users
- Ensuring proper track of Mobile numbers, Devices and Data card updates - Additions/Cancellations/Multiple /Spare numbers etc.
- Prepare mobile corporate policy and drive compliance globally. Identify, investigate and report non-compliance users/offices to the management
- Collaborating closely with accounts payables team for timely payments to service providers
- Facilitate contracts with Mobile Network Operators
- Prepare Budget vs Actual reports and provide commentary on month on month basis
- Analyse data for patterns/trends; show potential for cost savings through policy/process change or innovation
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Key Relationships
- Group Cost Management (GCM)
- Travel Partners
Department
Travel Cost Analyst is a role within the Global Cost Management team Reporting
Structure
- Cost Analytics Manager