LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concur, a leading integrated travel and expense provider, today announced the ongoing expansion of its operations in Europe. In the last six months alone, the company boosted its European headcount by 10 per cent with plans to add an additional 25 per cent to its employee base across the region over the next twelve months.
A key driver behind this growth in recruitment is increased demand for Concur’s cloud-based and mobile travel and expense management services from both new and existing European clients including The Open Society Foundation and Business Growth Fund. Moreover, Concur’s ongoing investment in EMEA-specific R&D teams based in Paris, London, Prague and Frankfurt, in addition to rapid growth in the company’s receipt handling and audit services centre based in Sittingbourne, UK is also stimulating regional expansion.
Isabel Montesdeoca, SVP and General Manager, EMEA, comments: “We’re excited to continue growing our regional footprint, delivering more and more travel and expense innovation to European companies of all sizes. Our strategy is to continue adding partners and enhancing our products with a focus on simplifying the travel experience and helping European business travellers get one step closer to the perfect trip. We’re also investing in our VAT compliance capabilities to deliver against this increasingly important customer priority.”
Tayo Adewale, Finance Assistant at Open Society Foundation comments: “We use Concur to ensure that there is an expenses policy in place to bring greater visibility and control to finances within the organisation. It is particularly important to the Foundation that employees spend efficiently, and automating the process using Concur helps us to achieve that in a hassle-free way.”
Concur offers an integrated online and mobile travel and expense solution that helps organisations of all sizes save time and control spend, from travel request all the way through payment and reporting. Organisations simplify their travel and expense management with a best practice, end-to-end tool that is both powerful and easy to use.
Recently launched in EMEA, the Concur Salesforce.com Connector integrates expenses and travel data from Concur with salesforce.com contacts, accounts and opportunities to enable cost of sale analysis and travel collaboration. Travel Request allows users to request authorisation for travel plans and expenses up front. The Receipt Store enables individuals to email receipt images to a repository and assign them to expenses, providing more choices than ever for managing receipts. In addition, Locate & Alert service leverages itinerary data enabling companies to locate employees and communicate important messages and alerts to ensure their safety and security.
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About Concur
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur’s easy-to-use Web-based and mobile solutions help companies and their employees control costs and save time. Concur Connect is the platform that enables the entire travel and expense ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers to access and extend Concur’s T&E cloud. Concur’s systems adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large. Learn more at www.concur.com.