Global Travel & Expense (T&E) Audit Team Lead

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven Biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

We are trusted partners who are connected and integrated across the global enterprise, working closely with all functions from Commercial to Manufacturing. It opens greater development opportunities for more responsibility on a global scale.

Global Finance Services (GFS) is at the heart of the Finance function - accountable to the AstraZeneca (AZ) Group for the design and delivery of high quality, simple to operate transactional finance processes that enable our customers to focus on AZ’s strategic priorities.

Our Purchase to Pay (P2P) team within GFS is responsible handles the end-to-end acquiring goods and services ensuring that the associated payments made to our suppliers, this includes overseeing the procurement process management, invoice processing, payment processing, suppliers’ relationship management, reimbursing expenses to employees, and Travel & Expense (T&E) transactional activities.

The role holder reports to the Global T&E Audit Manager and is accountable for:

• Lead a high-performance audit team to deliver rapid, accurate, and compliant processing, driving efficiency through clear accountability, automation, and disciplined execution.

• Operate and continuously optimizethe risk-based audit tool,Oversight to proactively detect policy breaches, accuracy issues, and high-risk transactions, ensuring timely and targeted follow-ups.

• Own and accelerate resolution of audit issues and escalations, enforcing strong governance while minimizing turnaround time and operational disruption.

• Continuously refine audit parameters and thresholds to enhance exception detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and maximize audit productivity and system efficiency.

• Drive strict adherence to processing SLAs and compliance standards, ensuring all exceptions are investigated, resolved, and documented with sound judgment and audit defensibility.

• Deliver actionable, >

  Date Posted

  12-Jun-2026

  Closing Date

  11-Jul-2026

  AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.