May 15, 2025
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Emburse Unveils 2025 Champions Awards Winners, Celebrating Excellence in Travel and Expense Management
Grant Thornton, A+ College Ready, PropertyGuru, and others recognized for driving innovation, efficiency, and spend control
DALLAS, May 15, 2025–Emburse, whose innovative travel and expense solutions power forward-thinking organizations, proudly announces the winners of its third annual Emburse Champions Customer Excellence Awards, celebrating customers who are setting the bar high for spend optimization, operational efficiency, and innovation.
Selected from nearly 100 nominations across three continents, this year’s winners demonstrate outstanding use of Emburse solutions to drive measurable business impact. A panel of Emburse judges evaluated entries across six categories, recognizing organizations that achieved significant improvements in cost control, process automation, and actionable insights.
2025 Emburse Champions Award Winners:
- Change Champion – Holman Fenwick Willan
- Efficiency Champion – Peters & Peters
- Innovation Champion – Glenmary Home Missioners
- Insights Champion – PropertyGuru
- Integration Champion – Grant Thornton
- Spend Control Champion – A+ College Ready
The winning organizations have delivered impressive measurable results, including:
- A 45% reduction in reconciliation time through global invoice automation
- 92.3% credit card adoption, minimizing manual data entry and improving spend visibility
- A 20% reduction in manual effort, generating over $20,000 in annual labor savings
- Real-time analytics that helped decrease budget overruns by 20%
“I’m inspired by the remarkable results our 2025 Emburse Champions have achieved—saving time, cutting costs, and empowering their teams to work more efficiently,” said Justin Riek, Executive Vice President of Customer Operations at Emburse. “The annual awards celebrate our customers’ commitment to excellence and their exceptional ability to drive meaningful impact across their organizations. At Emburse, we’re always innovating—particularly through AI—to help finance teams make smarter decisions, automate routine tasks, and streamline operations with greater speed and accuracy. This year’s esteemed winners truly embody how expense technology can help make life easier while delivering tangible value for today’s leading organizations.”
Learn more about the 2025 Champions and their accomplishments here.
About Emburse
Emburse delivers Expense Intelligence—transforming reactive expense management into forward-thinking financial confidence. Expense Intelligence harnesses AI to orchestrate corporate spend across travel booking, procurement, reimbursements, and payments, embedding dynamic policy controls and predictive insights directly into workflows. This real-time approach empowers organizations with the agility to adapt, control risks, and strategically optimize spend.
Trusted globally by more than 12 million finance leaders, travel managers, and professionals, Emburse serves over 20,000 organizations in 120 countries—including Global 2000 enterprises, SMBs, public sector agencies, and nonprofits.
By proactively managing and accurately validating spend, Emburse ensures robust financial governance, enhanced compliance, and unsurpassed visibility into spend behaviors—all while dramatically streamlining the process for every employee.
At Emburse, Expense Intelligence is more than a feature—it’s a framework for transformation, reshaping the role of finance teams from administrators to strategic drivers of organizational success.
To learn more about Emburse, visit www.emburse.com and check out our social channels @emburse