Global Expenses Specialist

As ClickHouse scales, we're building the technology and operating foundation Finance needs to continue to enable our rapid growth. As part of that work, we're standing up a dedicated Travel & Expense (T&E) function and are looking for a Senior Expense Specialist responsible for maturing the current processes and day-to-day operational excellence.

What You'll Do

Audit, Compliance & Risk

• Own expense audit end-to-end
• Build and maintain the SOX-ready control environment for T&E, including documentation, testing support, and sign-off readiness.
• Track and reduce policy non-compliance, turning an untracked risk into a measured, managed one.

Global Policy & Program Ownership

• Enforce one global, regionally compliant T&E policy — including EOR employees — to reduce local tax and audit exposure.
• Centrally administer and optimize the ClickHouse Expense tool, Corporate Card program and system integrations to the HRIS and ERP systems.

Reimbursement & Employee Experience

• Cut international reimbursement cycle time from ~30 days to ~7 through automated routing and clear SLAs.
• Reduce the time employees spend per claim through better tooling, clearer policy, and self-service support.
• Be the primary point of contact for T&E questions, escalations, and edge cases — approval flow issues, policy setup, and offboarding coordination with the People team

Reporting, Enablement & Change Management

• Build spend dashboards, KPI tracking, and executive reporting where none exists today.
• Deliver role-based training and a global T&E champion network, and lead structured c

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