Travel & Expense Governance Analyst

**Job Description**:
Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

The EEM & Governance Analyst will be responsible to work together with BPO team for the delivery and execution governance of all Employee Expense Management processes for Americas to ensure credit cards and employee are timely paid and issues are corrected on time. Governance responsibility over BPO is a key objective of this position, maintaining service levels, accuracy, and compliance.

The EEM & Governance analyst is responsible to support and implement best practices according to industry standards and in line with company needs; taking into consideration accounting standards, internal controls, global policies and leverages technological platforms to bring effectiveness and efficiencies to the operation. Operational delivery through the engagement of both internal and external stakeholders and service providers.

**Primary responsibilities**:

- Review T&E processes performed by BPO across all America’s markets recording them into the ERP System ensuring compliance with all quality, policies, and Internal control requirements
- Resolve employee expense management inquiries, and work on account reconciliation.
- Reconcile GL Accounts
- Assist in communications with internal business customers.
- Collaborate with various organizations to resolve process and/or technical issues across multiple ERP systems
- Collaborate with various personnel to resolve reconciliation issues within system and/or vendor relationships
- Effectively manage and prioritize workload efficiently and accurately while maintaining a positive customer service culture.

**Educational Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance or equivalent or currently studying
- Business Level fluency (oral and written) in Spanish and English languages.

**Experience and Skills Requirements**:

- 2 years of experience in a finance or accounting department of a multinational company.Strong communication, organization, and time management skills
- Intermediate to advance PC skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Learning at fast pace.
- Knowledge of the accounting cycle and account reconciliation
- Knowledge in SAP & Concur
- Knowledge managing bank platforms - Citibank is a plus.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**Who we are** We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for** Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

**We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.**

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**Employee Status**:
Temporary (Fixed Term)

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
**Travel Requirements**:
**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
**Shift**:
**Valid Driving License**:
**Hazardous Material(s)**:
**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R198369