Global Governance & Regulation Lead – Travel & Expense Management (f/m/d)

Responsible for defining, governing, and continuously evolving the global Travel & Expense Governance & Regulations framework. While embedded in the Travel & Expense domain, the primary focus is design, governance, and continuous improvement of this global framework and its decision-making structures.

Key responsibilities include driving regulatory harmonisation, establishing robust governance mechanisms, and providing strategic oversight of the global Travel & Expense governance landscape. The role enables consistent interpretation, effective compliance, and sustainable governance practices while balancing business needs, regulatory requirements, and employee experience.

Locations & Working Flexibility

Possible locations: Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; Prague, Czech Republic. The role may be performed mobile within Germany up to 60% of working hours, with potential mobile working from abroad for up to 30 days a year in selected countries.

Responsibilities

- Own and continuously evolve the general Travel & Expense regulation framework, including directives, instructions, principles, guardrails, mandatory requirements, and decision-making standards.
- Define and maintain governance mechanisms that ensure consistent interpretation, application, and oversight of Travel & Expense regulations across all countries and business entities.
- Oversee local instructions and country-specific governance documentation, ensuring alignment with global regulations and organisational objectives.
- Monitor deviations, exception trends, compliance risks and governance infractions; identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure fair,



transparent and consistent application of governance across regions while balancing legal obligations, business needs and employee experience.
- Lead the harmonisation of the Travel & Expense Regulation frameworks, ensuring a consistent and scalable governance model.
- Define governance standards, escalation pathways, approval structures and accountability mechanisms related to Travel & Expense governance.
- Partner with operational stakeholders to align processes, systems and controls with the intended governance framework while keeping governance and execution responsibilities clearly separated.
- Coordinate the evaluation, approval, implementation and communication of regulation changes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on governance matters, compliance risks, and strategic decisions.
- Collaborate with Finance, Legal, Procurement, HR, Compliance and other stakeholders to drive governance alignment, risk mitigation, and organisational compliance.

Qualifications & Experience

- University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Law, Public Policy, Governance, Human Resources or a related field.
- Many years of experience in policy governance, regulations management, corporate compliance or a comparable governance-focused role in a multinational organisation.
- Understanding of how local requirements, regulations and business needs interact with global governance frameworks.
- Hands-on experience developing, implementing, reviewing and governing corporate directives, instructions,



policies and standards within a multinational environment.
- Demonstrable experience identifying, assessing and managing compliance risks, policy exceptions, governance deviations and cross-functional governance challenges, including definition of corrective actions.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders across Finance, Legal, HR, Procurement, Compliance and external service partners.
- Prior exposure to Travel & Expense, Mobility, Procurement, HR, Finance or similar regulated corporate environments is beneficial but not required.
- Professional experience and relevant additional qualifications also considered in lieu of a university degree.

Attributes & Skills

- Excellent communication skills in English and German, written and verbal.
- Strong analytical, conceptual and governance-oriented thinking.
- Ability to translate complex governance requirements into practical, sustainable solutions.
- Stakeholder management and influencing across organisational levels, including senior leadership.
- Clear communication and facilitation of decisions, intent and rationales.
- Balancing business requirements with governance standards, compliance expectations and organisational objectives.
- Sound judgment when assessing exceptions, governance risks and competing stakeholder interests.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving alignment across functions, countries and cultures.
- Compliance and ethics mindset with high integrity, discretion and reliability.
- Constructive challenge of established practices and continuous improvement of governance frameworks.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.

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