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.
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.
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.