Jr. Travel Analyst

XLA•Washington, DC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Jr Travel Analyst will support a federal agency located in Washington, D.C. This is a full-time, onsite position requiring 5 days a week of work, with core hours between 8 am and 5 pm ET. The role involves serving as a key travel contact for Fraud Section employees, providing technical, policy, and process advice on travel to employees, attorneys, and management officials. Responsibilities include interpreting travel requests, preparing authorizations, processing reimbursements, reviewing travel documents in the E2 Solutions system, coordinating international travel documents like passports and visas, conducting monthly travel updates, acting as a liaison between finance and travel teams, making reservations, evaluating current travel operations, recommending improvements, documenting processes, developing metrics, and assisting with creating materials related to the travel program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of two (2) years of proven and/or related work experience
Understanding of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR)
Knowledge of the federal travel authorization and vouchering process
Experience providing travel scheduling
Familiarity with travel systems similar to E2 Solutions
Experience in identifying errors and taking appropriate corrective actions
Substantial use of Microsoft Excel

Responsibilities

Serve as a key travel contact for the Fraud Section employees, providing technical, policy, and process advice and guidance on travel.
Interpret official temporary duty (TDY) travel requests and prepare travel authorizations based on traveler, Section, and mission needs, ensuring compliance with Division and Department policies and procedures.
Process and submit travel vouchers for reimbursement of funds, ensuring all policies and processes are followed and submissions are conducted in a timely manner.
Review all travel authorizations and vouchers within the Division’s travel system (E2 Solutions) for errors prior to submission for approval and conduct adjustments when discrepancies are discovered.
Provide timely updates to travelers, routing officials, and authorizing officials when changes occur with travel requests.
Coordinate and obtain documents for official travel outside the U.S., including official passports, and assist employees in applying for visas.
Contact foreign embassies for additional information when needed and provide information to the State Department to obtain country clearances.
Conduct monthly travel updates to address any open travel obligations in E2 Solutions that remain open more than 30 days after the traveler’s departure date.
Act as a liaison between the Division’s finance section and FRD travel teams concerning travel policy questions, policy interpretation, and vouchers/authorizations issues.
Make reservations for travelers utilizing E2 Solutions when travelers are unable to make reservations on their own.
Assist with evaluating the current state of FRD’s travel operations and recommend improvements, document processes, and develop and update metrics for senior leadership review.
Assist Fraud Section management with creating Power-Point slides, website content, tutorials, and other work product related to the travel program for Section dissemination.