2024 Emburse®
Champion Awards Winners
Spotlight
Meet our Emburse Champions who went above and beyond to optimize their travel and expense management workflows to increase compliance, reduce costs, gain deeper spend insights and make work easier for employees, approvers, and finance.
Change Champion:
For leading teams through challenging change management and successfully navigating a seismic shift for the betterment of the organization.
SIXT
Toni Hoffman
SIXT reduced expense processing time with an easy-to-use system and a fully digital process.
Success highlights:
- Reduced FTEs focused on expense processing from eight to three
- Reduced submitter processing time from eight hours per week to five minutes per week
- Reduced processing cost per claim by 82%
- Achieved results within the first three months of going live
We created a Center of Excellence for expenses where all employees from all countries can get instant help and support.
Efficiency Champion:
For elevating productivity and allowing the team to focus on higher-value tasks.
Nature’s Path
Jen Woloski
Nature's Path went from having summarized basic data with no details, to having every piece of information available in real-time at their fingertips 24/7. Their finance team's review process has been greatly expedited with the team now spending significantly less time verifying questionable transactions.
Success highlights:
- Gained visibility with real-time spend insights
- Improved the user experience by offering mobile features and more transparency into submissions
- Consolidated five expense systems into one, significantly reducing lost reports and delayed approvals
We've revolutionized the way we track and analyze our spending. Gone are the days of zero visibility. Now, we can run reports and monitor real-time expenses with ease.
Control Champion:
For eliminating fraudulent payments and enforcing policies to prevent wastage.
Flynn Canada
Lisa Couto
Flynn Canada has implemented several new processes to ensure the timely processing of expenses and the uploading of receipts. These processes have reduced the volume of missing receipts and created a more responsible spending culture.
Success highlights:
- Uncovered insights to help negotiate vendor rates, discounts, and spot rebate opportunities to improve the bottom line
- Simplified expense coding for more consistent and easier reporting to track spending trends and cost analysis
- Saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative work
Emburse Analytics has given us more hands-on information than ever before. Our users are recognizing fraud in real time, and are taking more ownership and responsibility of their charges.
Travel Champion:
For maximizing the value of your travel program by streamlining processes for your road warriors.
General Mills
Kate Williams
General Mills went the extra mile to create supportive policies and streamline solutions, so their teams could focus on their jobs when traveling.
Success highlights:
- Simplified travelers’ experiences by making it easier for them to find everything they need in one central application
- Enabled real-time communication with notifications and reminders about per diems and expense policies
- Delivered a 12% YTD increase in adoption with the majority of users giving the app a 5/5 rating
Emburse has provided us with the tools to sustain our Travel & Expense team’s mission: simple, safe, savvy. The app helps make travel simple and safe, and the employee a savvy traveler.
Insights Champion:
For expanding spending visibility and transforming expense data into rich, actionable strategies to improve business outcomes.
Databricks
Kimberly Araya, Amy Nah
Databricks reduced reimbursement time from 27 days down to 4.5 days on average. The company continues to beat their own metrics with the help of daily exports, payment schedulers, and the ability to reimburse multiple countries, policies, or currencies throughout the globe.
Success highlights:
- Saved $1.2 million on US guest meals by correcting meal limits
- Reduced time spent on audits by 70%
- Identified non-compliant expenses and added new policies for more control
The ability to create reports as per request, per need, on ad hoc basis, or for very specific criteria without having to cleanse the report has been beyond immeasurable.
Advocacy Champion:
For sharing experiences, successes, achievements, and suggestions as a valued member of our Emburse community.
Charles Russell Speechlys
Joe Mardon
With Chrome River, Charles Russell Speechlys has completely digitalized and automated their expense processes, realizing significant efficiency improvements and savings in the process.
Success highlights:
- Gained real-time visibility of spend and identified out-of-policy submitters
- Standardized compliance and approval processes, thereby expediting approvals
- Eliminated manual, paper-based processes via automation
There have been huge efficiency gains by moving to Emburse. Approvals take considerably less time now, enabling our AP team to focus their attention on the areas of the business with a larger impact.
Innovation Champion:
For reduced fraudulent or non-compliant spending with Emburse solutions.
Sacyr
Lorena Iglesias
The Sacyr project required several levels of authorization at both the hierarchical and regulatory levels, multiple expense categories, and implementation in multiple countries.
Success highlights:
- Homogenization and agility in reporting and regulatory review
- Reduction of fraud due to non-compliance with Sacyr's expense policies
- Decision-making based on computable data
Thanks to Emburse Captio, we have managed to unify expense management in a single, integrated tool for any type of settlement (cash, corporate card, Solred card, advances, Join-up or agency).
Integration Champion:
For using technology integrations to bridge expense data and create a singular, insightful, and effective financial database.
Carelon Global Solutions, India
Experience Champion:
For simplifying processes to create the most positive user experience.
Sasser Family Companies
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