Senior Travel & Expense Specialist

Company Description

Deciphera is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing important new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. We are leveraging our proprietary switch-control kinase inhibitor platform and deep expertise in kinase biology to develop a broad portfolio of innovative medicines.

Enabled by our proprietary drug discovery platform, Deciphera has developed a diverse pipeline of wholly-owned drug candidates. QINLOCK (ripretinib) is Deciphera's switch control inhibitor developed for the treatment of fourth-line GIST. QINLOCK is approved in Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. We wholly own QINLOCK and all of our drug candidates with the exception of a development and commercialization out-license agreement for QINLOCK in Greater China. In addition to QINLOCK, we have identified and advanced multiple product candidates from our platform into clinical studies, including vimseltinib and DCC-3116.

See here for more details on our portfolio.

Job Description

The Concur Senior T&E Specialist will support and maintain the day-to-day activities of all Travel & Expense program functions for both US and International, including travel reimbursement, expense reporting, receipt audit, US corporate card assignment, working with the company travel agency and global corporate policy adherence. They will also perform the month end close process for Concur and accruals.

This position will report to the Senior Manager of Accounts Payable and work on-site at our Waltham, MA office. Deciphera embraces a flexible workplace. You will work out of our Waltham, Massachusetts office. Deciphera expects a minimum number of in-office days. Specific days spent in the office should be determined in conjunction with your manager.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for direct oversight of the Travel and Expense program, owning and driving both the daily operations and the global strategy for the programs, consistent with the Company's culture and policies.

• Manage the administration of the Concur Travel Expense System and Corporate Card online system, including but not limited to: UI, implementation, communication, compliance, and training.

• Process employee expense reports in accordance with established policies and procedures for US and Ex-US entities.

• Serve as the Corporate Card Administrator; manage the setup of new accounts, closed accounts, and fraudulent charges.

• Respond to internal travel, expense, and corporate card issues and provide support to ensure reasonable and timely resolution.

• Produce monthly reporting metrics from Concur.

• Generate monthly expense export/import and upload to accounting system.

• Responsible for GL reconciliation of the Company's Corporate Credit Card and Purchasing clearing accounts.

• Act as liaison along with the Compliance department ensuring Aggregate Spend Reporting requirements are being adhered to in the submission of HCP related expenditures.

• Work along with the IT Business Partner to develop and maintain Concur system improvements and integrations with other systems (Master Data Hub, Tika, Oracle, etc.)

• Direct Correspondence and working relationships with both internal and external partners in development, testing, implementation, and rollout of new system functionality.

• Assist with audit requests, including providing copies of expense reports as required and answering any T&E questions as they arise.

• Develop and execute orientations and training material for new and existing employees (US and Ex-US).

• Manage the Company's expense policy, review, and update policy when necessary.

• Ensure compliance with company, local, state, and federal reporting requirements.

• Primary liaison to Company preferred travel agency.

• Support Accounts Payable with processing of invoices, as needed.

• Manage the Accounts Payable inbox (AP Teams). Responding to invoice queries from internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Required minimum 5+ years of extensive knowledge and working experience in Concur/Travel online expense reporting, Concur Professional preferred.

• Experience in accounts payable or related function

• Preferred knowledge and/or exposure to Aggregate Spend (Sunshine Act 2010)

• Associate's degree

• Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

• Self-motivated and directed.

• Financial ERP systems experience-Oracle Fusion a plus

Additional Information

We are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified 2023 and rank #25 on Fortune's Best Places to Work Small and Midsized Biotech Companies in 2023. Find more details about our award-winning culture here.

We offer an outstanding culture and opportunity for personal and professional growth based on our "PATHS" Core Values:

• Patients

• We are committed to improving the lives of patients living with cancer. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

• Accountability

• We demand accountability for our actions, behaviors, and performance. We recognize our duty to maintain a culture that embraces the uniqueness of our people and finds strength in our differences.

• Transparency

• We strive to provide full visibility to internal and external stakeholders for a complete picture of what we are doing and why.

• Honesty and Integrity

• Trust and mutual respect are essential aspects of our culture. We act with honesty and integrity in all facets of our business, and this serves as the foundation of our work and interactions with others.

• Stewardship

• We are respectful of the resources entrusted to us by the investment community. We act thoughtfully and allocate resources responsibly in seeking to create value for our shareholders.

"How" we work together and the behaviors that we show up with each day are critical to maintaining our positive culture. Our behavioral expectations align with our values to elevate and drive individual and team performance:

• Lead from where you are - regardless of role or level, we motivate each other to achieve common goals.

• Drive business results - we navigate forward with our eye on the highest priorities.

• Partner and collaborate - we cultivate relationships and value ideas, regardless of where they are coming from, to achieve more together.

• Continuously evolve and improve - we try, we learn, we revise and try again.

Deciphera offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to the following:

• Non-accrual paid time off

• Summer vacation bonus

• Global, company-wide summer and winter shutdowns

• An annual lifestyle allowance

• Monthly cell phone stipend

• Internal rewards and recognition program

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Life and Supplemental life insurance for family

• Short and Long Term Disability insurance

• ESPP offering

• Health savings account with company contribution

• Flexible spending account for either health care and/or dependent care.

• Family planning benefit

• Generous parental leave

• [if applicable] Car allowance

Deciphera (NASDAQ: DCPH) is a publicly traded company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Our state-of-the-art research facility is located in Lawrence, Kansas and our European operations are run out of Switzerland.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION

Deciphera is committed to equal employment opportunity and values diversity. To ensure that we comply with reporting requirements and to learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey at the end of this application. Providing this information is optional. It will not be accessible or used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. This information will also be treated confidentially. Our commitment to increasing diversity in our candidate pool does not affect our commitment to equal employment opportunity, including our ongoing commitment to make all hiring and other employment decisions solely on a nondiscriminatory basis.