Payroll-led buying is pulling expense decisions away from finance-led control.
HR partners protect a simpler workforce story while finance buyers protect reconciliation and policy ownership.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My payroll team sends me another mileage file every month, then finance asks why the totals changed again.”
Thierry Davies · Expense Administrator
Runs expense policy and reimbursement workflows for a European mid-market employer whose HR and finance systems do not share the same expense context.
What is at stake
Payroll and HR vendors are entering expense evaluations while administrators still rebuild mileage and per diem records for finance. You have to weigh partner reach against a finance-led value story that holds through qualification.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- partner reach vs finance ownership
- shared account access vs customer trust
- pipeline volume vs qualification quality
- HR-led entry vs finance-led value
Why Navan
Navan Expense already supports mileage, per diem, policy auditing, and reconciliation for European expense programs.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.