Senior Manager, Accounting Operations (Travel & Expense)

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook. 

Position Summary:

This role requires a proactive leader who brings both operational discipline and a continuous improvement mindset.   As the internal SME for Concur, you will lead enhancements, integrations (including Workday and CRM systems), and process automation, while ensuring a compliant and user-friendly T&E experience.  You will also play a key role in launching a formalized travel program and managing our corporate card operations.

You’ll collaborate regularly with Legal, Compliance, Accounting, Commercial, and IT teams, and provide consistent and transparent reporting to senior leadership.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Accounting Operations (AP and T&E), and based in our Palo Alto office, this role will support the Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting team’s objective of timely month-end close and accurate, compliant expense reporting in alignment with internal controls and external regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Operations

• Lead and develop a high-performing T&E team, including an Assistant Manager and three offshore specialists.
• Establish operational excellence through strong processes, controls, and stakeholder support.
• Develop scalable operational processes to support rapid organizational growth while maintaining compliance and service quality.
• Establish, monitor, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to expense processing timelines, policy compliance, employee satisfaction, corporate card delinquency, and operational efficiency.

Regulatory Compliance (Stark Law & Beyond)

• Ensure full compliance with Stark Law and other applicable healthcare regulations governing spend on HCPs (healthcare professionals).
• Deliver weekly T&E data extracts to support Stark reporting and audit readiness.
• Partner closely with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure all processes align with industry standards.

Concur Systems Ownership

• Serve as the SAP Concur SME, responsible for platform administration, configuration, workflow automation, reporting, integrations, and continuous system optimization.
• Manage key integrations and future platform capabilities (including Workday, CRM platforms such as Salesforce and Veeva, and travel-related solutions) to ensure accurate reporting, compliance and financial reconciliation.
• Drive enhancements that increase automation, accuracy, and scalability of T&E processes.

Policy Governance & Execution

• Maintain and enforce global T&E policies in alignment with internal controls and compliance requirements.
• Monitor adherence, identify trends in policy violations, and lead corrective action plans.

Travel Program Development

• Design and