Business Travel Team Leader (Finance/Accounting)
Description
What INNIO offers you:
- Young & supportive team - in a fast-growing international business environment
- Learn & develop yourself - help you craft your career path with (INNIO learning, free language courses according to business needs)
- Hybrid working - 50% Office, 50 % Home Office with flexible working hours
- Cafeteria package with various options - SZÉP Card, Cash option, Nursery & kindergarten support
- Medicover Spring White Package- from the first day of employment
- Easily accessible location - in the heart of the most vibrant campus area in Budapest (location: 13rd District, easy to approach by Metro Line 3)
- Take a break - Recharge your batteries with free coffee and tea selection in the kitchen area
- Live an active lifestyle – activate your AYCM pass
Role Description
We are looking for an experienced and proactive Business Travel Team Lead to lead our business travel support activities and ensure efficient, compliant, and high-quality service delivery. This role is responsible for overseeing a team managing corporate credit card administration, monitoring expense reports in line with business travel policies and tax requirements, accounting for travel-related expenses, and analyzing travel spend to support transparency and cost optimization.
The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with solid knowledge of travel expense processes, compliance, accounting principles, and continuous improvement.
Your tasks:
- Lead, coach, and develop the business travel-related operations team
- Oversee end-to-end corporate credit card management, including:
- card applications
- credit limit maintenance
- card blocking and replacement
- general card administration and support
- Ensure effective expense report monitoring in compliance with:
- internal business travel policies
- applicable tax and legal requirements
- Supervise and coordinate the accounting of travel-related expenses
- Review and improve operational processes to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and compliance
- Analyze business travel-related expenses, identify trends, risks, and savings opportunities
- Support internal stakeholders and employees with travel and expense-related questions
- Collaborate with Finance, Tax, HR, Procurement, and other relevant functions
- Ensure timely issue resolution and high service quality
- Drive standardization, process improvements, and digitalization initiatives
- Prepare reports, KPIs, and management summaries related to travel operations and spend
Your profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- Several years of relevant professional experience in travel & expense, accounting, finance operations, or shared services
- Initial or proven people leadership experience
- Good understanding of:
- corporate credit card processes
- expense report review and approval workflows
- travel policy compliance
- tax requirements related to travel expenses
- accounting principles for travel-related costs
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with ERP, expense management, and travel tools is an advantage
- Good command of English AND Hungarian; additional languages are a plus
- Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel