{"id":3340,"date":"2018-01-03T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2022-09-06T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:03:50","slug":"reporting-structure-for-the-travel-expense-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/2018\/01\/reporting-structure-for-the-travel-expense-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Structure for the Travel Expense Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Before the move to Shared Services, when it was typical for each physical location to have staff with responsibilities for paying employees and paying vendors, the process for managing the compliance and reimbursement portion of the Travel process was commonly included as a part of the Accounts Payable organization<\/a>. \u00a0Today, with the consolidation of work processes to a few global locations, and with continued advances in technology to streamline and automate end-to-end processes<\/a>, the human effort required to process travel expense reports is a very different job than the work requirements to process vendor invoices.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

iPollingTM<\/sup> Results Review<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To better understand the reporting structure used for the Travel Expense team, the iPollingTM<\/sup> technology was used to get real-time results on the current approaches at member companies. \u00a0The results suggest that three different categories are used – reporting into a process area, reporting to an end-to-end process or a function, and reporting directly to the Shared Services leader.\u00a0 \u00a0Almost half of the member companies have Travel Expense reporting into a process, with 36% selecting Accounts Payable, and 10% selecting Payroll.\u00a0 For companies that have Travel Expenses reporting to an end-to-end process or function, 17% selected the Purchase-to-Pay process, 7% selected Travel Services, and 7% selected Human Resources.\u00a0 The remaining 23% of member companies have the Travel Expense team reporting directly to Shared Services.\u00a0 Here are the details:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the comments from Peeriosity members related to this poll:<\/span><\/p>\n