Automating Travel & Expenses: The Corporate Card Advantage

This panel discussion brings together industry leaders to explore advancements in automating travel and expense management, focusing on the corporate card advantage. Our expert panelists from Personio, Egencia, and ExpenseBrain discuss integrating best-of-breed solutions, enhancing user experience, ensuring compliance, and adapting corporate policies to meet employee needs.

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Sofie Boon & Mobilexpense Partners

 

Key takeaways: 

  • Corporate card benefits for employee experience: Corporate cards simplify expense reporting, reduce out-of-pocket spending, and help travellers feel trusted and supported by their companies.

  • Real-time data for sustainability and compliance: Leveraging corporate card data for real-time tracking enhances compliance, and companies can assign CO2 budgets, promoting sustainable travel choices.

  • Breaking down silos with best-of-breed solutions: Integrating systems via APIs creates a seamless data flow, reduces complexity, and establishes a single source of truth, ensuring alignment across departments.

  • Flexible expense controls drive compliance: Virtual and physical corporate cards allow companies to set spending categories, offering flexibility while ensuring adherence to policy.

  • User-centred design improves adoption: Prioritising ease of use in travel and expense systems drives employee adoption and satisfaction, creating a smooth experience for both frequent and occasional users.

  • Data-driven insights for finance teams: Real-time visibility into spending empowers finance teams to adjust budgets, project future spending, and optimise expense strategies.

  • Stakeholder collaboration for successful implementation: Effective expense management implementations require collaboration, clear roles, and management sponsorship to ensure lasting success.
Sofie
Sofie Boon
Sofie currently leads the Partnerships Team at Mobilexpense, focusing on driving mutual partner growth and nurturing successful collaboration. Her career spans multiple industries like Media, Telco, and Fintech. She is passionate about technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Koen
Koen Stam
Koen is the Head of Benelux at Personio. With a team of currently 35+ customer-facing colleagues, Koen focuses on consulting the importance of their HRIS platform for SMB & Mid Market. Besides he co-leading the Benelux chapter at Pavilion with over 100+ GTM executives.
Elsaesser
Christian Elsaesser
Christian is the Manager Director & Partner at expenseBrain. His focus areas are selecting and implementing expense management tools. He provides various services around tool-and-service-partner implementations, supplier sourcing, sustainability management, and more.
Gijs
Gijs Swaans
Gijs Swaans currently serves as the Commercials Lead & Global Sales Manager at Egencia. In the dynamic Travel & Expense industry, Gijs has been shaping commercial organisations to thrive in the digital and tech era, emphasising simplification, eliminating complexity, and managing change.

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