Accounts Payable Analyst

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Auto req ID: 214025BR

Job Description

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $64 billion in net revenue in 2018, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. “Winning with Purpose” reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of the business. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com .

We’re looking for a high performing Accounts Payable Analyst to join our UK Finance Team. You'll provide a critical link
between offshore service delivery partner (IBM) and the business, acting as an escalation point to unlock issues on Walkers Ledger- Indirect purchases to protect payment on time to suppliers.

Responsibilities:
·  Act as a coach to IBM and partner the offshore team in enhancing and refining the quality of service along with developing core processes together
·  Identify/support key change agenda in Process to Pay work stream, focusing on process optimisation and standardisation.
·  Support Accounts Payable Cash flow forecasting and analysis through data input and variance analysis
·  The role will require the individual to with some guidance from the Accounts Payable Manager (L7) and Service Delivery Manager (L11), to:
·  Conduct periodic reviews with IBM on both internal and external query management quality assurance. Reporting trends, risks & opportunities to drive up and maintain provider output within our control
·  Act as a real business partner to IBM, inspiring trust, nurturing a highly collaborative relationship to influence service delivery of key processes within the ‘Process to Pay’ realm
·  Act as the critical link between the business and IBM, rationalising issues and creating visibility of issues to support pragmatic long term solutions
·  Align senior stakeholders on any significant changes required to unlock resolution to recurring transition issues
·  Drive change required to optimise core purchase to pay processes ie supporting one way to procure goods and services at PepsiCo, collaborating with cross functional stakeholders to enable change
·  Investigate the root cause of known issues and share findings, with particular focus on reduction of exception handling- This role has the responsibility of being a MyBuy Super User
·  Assist in training out any changes system/process change within Process to pay to the businesses and IBM
·  Take ownership for period close activities, AP reconciliations and journal postings for Fleet/Amex expenditure
·  Owner of 2 SOX/GCS Controls
·  Support and embed change impacts from SAP upgrade #UK-Li

Qualifications/Requirements

What we’re looking for:
·  Strong self-starter, capable of working on various projects at the same time and organising own priorities and actions without the structure of day to day routine tasks. Also capable of flexing plans through busy periods to accommodate conflicting priorities
·  Able to work with some direction from Manager, but happy to drive day to day agenda to hit key agreed deadlines.
·  Strong collaboration, relationship building skills inspiring trust through various cross functional business partners
·  Strong excel skills
·  Strong communication skills, able to flex style to work with people at various levels of knowledge and experience, including an offshore team
·  Ability to cut through issues, identify route cause, generate solutions to eliminate future occurrences
·  Ability to create and support an inclusive environment and a healthy work/ life balance approach; working with a diverse group of people from different backgrounds
·  Accounts Payable experience advantageous but not essential providing applicant can demonstrate a reasonable Finance baseline knowledge Careers at PepsiCo

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

We offer a competitive salary and package, bonus, private healthcare, pension and many other benefits as well as fantastic flexible working opportunities.

Relocation Eligible: Not Applicable
Job Type: Pipeline

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.