Goldman Sachs Bank AG
Corporate Planning & Management, Travel and Expense Management, Infrastructure,
Goldman Sachs Bank AG, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
Corporate Planning & Management, Travel and Expense Management, Infrastructure, Associate- Dallas location_on Dallas, Texas, United States
Job Title:
Associate, Travel and Expense Management, Infrastructure, Dallas
Department:
Integrated Travel & Expense (T&E), Corporate Planning Management (CPM)
Divisional Overview The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm.
Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. The Integrated Travel & Expense (IT&E) team, under the Spend Management pillar, oversees the firm's global travel program, ensuring cost-effectiveness, compliance with policies, and a positive travel experience for employees.
Role Overview The Associate on the Infrastructure team within IT&E will be responsible for the firm's travel and expense platforms, with a primary focus on Concur from SAP and associated linked systems. This role involves owning the optimization of the infrastructure supporting the business process and strategy, researching and implementing new technologies, and acting as a design expert for the Concur system. The candidate should have hands‑on experience with Concur infrastructure, including configurations and debugging, to ensure seamless user experience and operating efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
Become the Subject Matter Expert for our Travel and Expense platforms: SAP Concur and associated linked systems, including configurations and debugging
Own the optimization of the associated infrastructure supporting the business process & strategy
Research, benchmark, and implement new disruptive technologies that enable a seamless user experience or achieve operating efficiencies
Manage Travel & Expense reporting deliverables focusing on Operations, Risk & Commercials
Act as design expert for the Concur system and other travel technologies, in collaboration with business SMEs, SAP team, corporate card provider, and travel management company
Lead and drive the wider infrastructure priorities, standards, and strategy globally, using the Agile process
Build strong business relationships with firmwide senior stakeholders to understand potential impacts on Concur system based on divisional businesses and initiatives, including potential internal and external integrations
Drive the implementation of new systems or functionality (internal or external) and the change management process globally to avoid disruption in current program procedures
Liaise with Engineering leadership and developers in communicating business requirements, data migration, testing, and deployment of new infrastructure capabilities.
Drive projects for continuous process improvement and bring innovation into the team. Lead initiatives against defined business case, covering adoption, results, and progress
Own the configuration, administration, and release management for all tools within the scope of the Concur Infrastructure team
Define, analyze, design, and document business requirements, offer simplifications to requirements, and manage changes made to requirements
Oversee End User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycles to be managed by the team, including creating manual test scripts and managing the testing population results and queries
Work with Concur Reporting Team, Spend Management Engineering, and Travel and Expense operational teams to develop scorecards & KPIs to monitor & track SLAs and manage vendor relationships, to ensure adequate performance & stability
Guide, mentor, and partner with the wider team on the day‑to‑day technical queries related to system logic and perform defect/data analysis as well as support specific audits, internal and external
Communicate progress and decision points for projects to relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required
Skills and Experience Basic Qualifications
Proven change management skills in a global organization delivering both organizational and technical system changes
Hands‑on experience with SAP Concur, including familiarity with new configurations, setup, and remediating issues related to workflows or current audit rule configurations
Ability to lead all aspects of implementation from mobilization to deployment and support
Provide technical and functional expertise to clients throughout the project lifecycle for T&E solutions
Ability to manage global team, develop, mentor, and direct team and broader support
Excellent senior stakeholder management skills. Engage internal clients in business requirement discussions versus feature/function basics
Technical and operational problem‑solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
Minimum 3 years of work experience within Travel and Expense, or a similar functional area
Proficient in using BI tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI)
Proven influencing skills across levels and geographies
Partner with internal clients, implementation partner, and technology provider resources to effectively create, manage, and monitor project plan, budget, timeline, milestones, and deliverables
Ability to deal with ambiguity and motivate others through periods of uncertainty
About Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high‑net‑worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer.
Healthcare & Medical Insurance We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.
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Job Title:
Associate, Travel and Expense Management, Infrastructure, Dallas
Department:
Integrated Travel & Expense (T&E), Corporate Planning Management (CPM)
Divisional Overview The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm.
Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. The Integrated Travel & Expense (IT&E) team, under the Spend Management pillar, oversees the firm's global travel program, ensuring cost-effectiveness, compliance with policies, and a positive travel experience for employees.
Role Overview The Associate on the Infrastructure team within IT&E will be responsible for the firm's travel and expense platforms, with a primary focus on Concur from SAP and associated linked systems. This role involves owning the optimization of the infrastructure supporting the business process and strategy, researching and implementing new technologies, and acting as a design expert for the Concur system. The candidate should have hands‑on experience with Concur infrastructure, including configurations and debugging, to ensure seamless user experience and operating efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
Become the Subject Matter Expert for our Travel and Expense platforms: SAP Concur and associated linked systems, including configurations and debugging
Own the optimization of the associated infrastructure supporting the business process & strategy
Research, benchmark, and implement new disruptive technologies that enable a seamless user experience or achieve operating efficiencies
Manage Travel & Expense reporting deliverables focusing on Operations, Risk & Commercials
Act as design expert for the Concur system and other travel technologies, in collaboration with business SMEs, SAP team, corporate card provider, and travel management company
Lead and drive the wider infrastructure priorities, standards, and strategy globally, using the Agile process
Build strong business relationships with firmwide senior stakeholders to understand potential impacts on Concur system based on divisional businesses and initiatives, including potential internal and external integrations
Drive the implementation of new systems or functionality (internal or external) and the change management process globally to avoid disruption in current program procedures
Liaise with Engineering leadership and developers in communicating business requirements, data migration, testing, and deployment of new infrastructure capabilities.
Drive projects for continuous process improvement and bring innovation into the team. Lead initiatives against defined business case, covering adoption, results, and progress
Own the configuration, administration, and release management for all tools within the scope of the Concur Infrastructure team
Define, analyze, design, and document business requirements, offer simplifications to requirements, and manage changes made to requirements
Oversee End User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycles to be managed by the team, including creating manual test scripts and managing the testing population results and queries
Work with Concur Reporting Team, Spend Management Engineering, and Travel and Expense operational teams to develop scorecards & KPIs to monitor & track SLAs and manage vendor relationships, to ensure adequate performance & stability
Guide, mentor, and partner with the wider team on the day‑to‑day technical queries related to system logic and perform defect/data analysis as well as support specific audits, internal and external
Communicate progress and decision points for projects to relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required
Skills and Experience Basic Qualifications
Proven change management skills in a global organization delivering both organizational and technical system changes
Hands‑on experience with SAP Concur, including familiarity with new configurations, setup, and remediating issues related to workflows or current audit rule configurations
Ability to lead all aspects of implementation from mobilization to deployment and support
Provide technical and functional expertise to clients throughout the project lifecycle for T&E solutions
Ability to manage global team, develop, mentor, and direct team and broader support
Excellent senior stakeholder management skills. Engage internal clients in business requirement discussions versus feature/function basics
Technical and operational problem‑solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
Minimum 3 years of work experience within Travel and Expense, or a similar functional area
Proficient in using BI tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI)
Proven influencing skills across levels and geographies
Partner with internal clients, implementation partner, and technology provider resources to effectively create, manage, and monitor project plan, budget, timeline, milestones, and deliverables
Ability to deal with ambiguity and motivate others through periods of uncertainty
About Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high‑net‑worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer.
Healthcare & Medical Insurance We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.
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