Expense Compliance Analyst

Job Description 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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. Qualifications

REQUIRED:

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.

PREFERRED:

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. Additional Information Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender‑related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non‑discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal. Our pay transparency policy is available here. Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution. Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/02/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline. Compensation & Benefits Details An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs. The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future. You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Sandisk