Expense Compliance Analyst

Sandisk•Milpitas, CA

About The Position

We are seeking a highly detail-oriented, policy-driven finance professional to join the Corporate FP&A team. This role will be primarily responsible for reviewing expense reports before approval, ensuring expenses are reasonable, properly documented, aligned to Company policy, and supported by a clear business purpose. The ideal candidate will bring prior experience reviewing employee expense reports, a deep understanding of travel and business expense policies, strong judgment, and the confidence to investigate exceptions and professionally question employees or approvers when additional clarification is needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
8+ years of experience in finance operations, expense report review, accounts payable, internal audit, compliance, accounting, or corporate finance.
Prior hands-on experience reviewing employee expense reports, preferably in Concur or a similar travel and expense management platform.
Strong working knowledge of corporate travel and business expense policies, approval workflows, documentation requirements, and reimbursement controls.
Exceptional attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies, missing support, policy violations, and unusual expense patterns.
Strong professional judgment and ability to apply policy consistently while recognizing when escalation or additional guidance is appropriate.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to ask questions, request clarification, and challenge submissions in a respectful and professional manner.
High degree of integrity, discretion, and comfort handling sensitive information.
Ability to manage multiple expense reports, follow-ups, and time-sensitive requests in a fast-paced corporate environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot or other AI-tools and expense reporting systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting executive-level expense review, senior leadership organizations, or highly confidential finance processes.
Background in a public company, global technology company, or similarly complex multinational environment.
Familiarity with internal controls, audit support, SOX environments, delegation of authority policies, and corporate approval requirements.
Ability to balance service orientation with firm policy enforcement and clear escalation of exceptions.
Comfort operating independently, documenting conclusions, and making recommendations based on policy requirements and business context.
Process improvement mindset with the ability to identify recurring issues and suggest scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

Review expense reports prior to approval, ensuring compliance with Company travel, business expense, reimbursement, approval, and documentation policies.
Validate that expenses are reasonable, business-related, properly categorized, within applicable thresholds, and supported by itemized receipts
Identify policy exceptions, missing documentation, duplicate charges, personal or non-reimbursable items, incorrect cost centers, and requiring pre-approval or escalation.
Investigate unusual or unclear expense activity by reviewing supporting materials, Concur details, policy requirements, and relevant approval documentation.
Professionally question employees when clarification, correction, or additional documentation is required.
Partner with Travel & Expense, Accounts Payable, Accounting, Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and business teams to resolve exceptions and ensure consistent policy interpretation.
Maintain accurate records of review outcomes, exceptions, follow-ups, and escalations to support audit readiness and internal control compliance.
Develop a practical understanding of recurring expense patterns and proactively recommend process improvements, training needs, or policy clarifications.
Support month-end and quarter-end activities by helping ensure expense activity is processed accurately, timely, and in accordance with financial reporting requirements.
Handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)