Manager, Expense Governance and Controls

The Manager, Expense Governance & Controls is responsible for ensuring enterprise cost savings are captured, sustained, and protected. This role strengthens financial discipline through governance, spend controls, and integration of savings into budgets and operational processes.

Requirements

• Maintain the official enterprise savings tracker
• Reconcile initiatives to the P&L to confirm financial realization
• Identify slippage, reversals, or leakage risks
• Conduct deep-dive expense analysis to uncover variance drivers
• Implement and monitor spend approval thresholds
• Enforce vendor, contract, and purchasing controls
• Standardize procurement and purchasing channels to ensure compliance
• Embed validated savings into annual budgets
• Adjust forecasts to reflect run-rate reductions
• Review and challenge incremental spend requests against cost discipline standards
• Facilitate recurring cost governance review forums
• Prepare executive performance materials and savings reports
• Track commitments, decisions, and follow-through actions
• Embed cost controls into financial systems and operational platform
• Standardize cost management workflows
• Develop and maintain cost governance playbooks and documentation