Job Description

Location: London, London, United Kingdom
Job ID: R0098820
Date Posted: 2025-07-04
Company Name: HITACHI RAIL LIMITED
Profession (Job Category): Administration & Facilities
Job Schedule: Full time
Remote: No
About Us
A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.
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Job title: Global Travel and Expense Lead
Location: We are flexible where this role is based, candidates would be considered from London - UK, France, Spain, Italy or Germany
Your new role
Here at Hitachi Rail, we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Global Travel and Expense Lead to join our Global HR Shared Service team. As the Global Travel and Expense Lead you will hold responsibility for establishing operational plans in accordance with the business strategy and developing and implementing new processes and operations that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.
This is a great time to join our company as we have recently gone through a large acquisition and we're in the middle of integrating and harmonizing operations, therefore there's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to harmonizing the operations in travel and expense area to contribute to the business.
This position requires strong communication skills as you will be working with multiple stakeholders across various regions internationally, alongside influencing and supporting your colleagues within the Travel & Expense team. Flexibility to work outside of normal office hours may sometimes be required in this role due to time zone differences and the ability and willingness to travel internationally (on occasion) is essential.
Some core responsibilities will include:
Travel:

• Develop, modify, validate and execute the global travel policy and communicate to employees. Validate local travel policies for alignment.
• Drive process improvements to increase program efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure the accurate compilation, analysis and reporting of travel data.
• Implement an audit and control framework to monitor the 's travel policy for compliance.
• In collaboration with Procurement, manage travel vendor relationships and programs ensuring compliance to service level agreements.

Expense

• Implement a global expense tool in collaboration with Global and Local stakeholders (HR, Finance, IT and Procurement) and vendors

About you

• Prior experience working within a Travel & Expense role would be strongly advantageous but not essential
• Experience of working in a global, matrixed organisation would be beneficial
• The ability to think critically & laterally
• Hold strong analytical skills, and open to new technologies such as Gen AI
• Be able to work well independently
• Hold strong communication skills i.e. the ability to
• have constructive discussions, be able to resolve conflict and influence across different levels.
• Excellence in data management/ Excel/ Power-Point
• Prior experience of Project management & Change management
• Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent, experience in HR, Corporate Affairs or Travel-related position (desirable)

What we offer
We value the importance of all of our employees, if you would like to join our fantastic organisation you could be entitled to:

• Competitive salary
• Annual Performance bonus paid on discretionary basis.
• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme with contributions up to 9%
• Private medical insurance
• Personal Accident insurance
• Group Income protection
• Group Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

We also offer additional perks for you to choose from within a flexible plan that will meet your specific needs and lifestyle.
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