Financial Processing Assistant Analyst

Job description

Job Description

Auto req ID: 186474BR

Job Description

Purpose of the role:

The PO & Budget Management analyst’s primary role is to ensure exceptional operational services are provided to the teams they are supporting in both BUs and Category teams. These services include contacting vendors & aligning on costs by project, managing the PO and invoice work flow associated with specific brand A&M budgets, maintaining necessary ledger postings, maintaining weekly reporting, and conducting periodic check in’s with Marketing teams which they are supporting.

Main accountabilities:

·  Collaborate with control function to Initiate the aligned upon brand budget in the Oracle/ SAP systems; generating project numbers for each brand project
·  Contact vendors for respective projects; & align on costs associated with services provided
·  Request, review and maintain files related to final estimates from vendors
·  Collaborate with Control’s budget coordinators to process estimates & generate PO’s
·  Manage tracking of completed estimates and POS’s; accounting for remaining balances, needed estimates, open purchase orders, and prompt pays, etc.
·  Complete adhoc analysis of cost buckets across brands to identify efficiency opportunities for future planning purposes
·  Support communication processes with reporting vertical leaders and Business Partners (project planning, workflow monitoring, quality checks, on-going changes)
·  Help Reporting vertical leadership develop and fine tune internal COE processes (work-flow mapping, pain-points and bottlenecks to process management) both related to service delivery and internal center operations
·  Improve existing processes based on frequent end-user and Business Partner feedback loop

Qualifications/Requirements

·  A junior level analytics professional with experience in a leading consumer goods company. 2 years+ experience
·  Education: BBA in economics, math, statistics, marketing or management
·  Highly efficient with Excel and Microsoft Office programs
·  Excellent written and oral communication skills; proactively communicates using appropriate methods for situation and audience in clear, concise and professional manner
·  Be flexible, organized and able to handle competing priorities
·  Ability to provide superior customer service
·  Language Skills – Fluent English
·  Best-in-class time management skills, ability to multitask, set priorities and plan
·  Propensity to learn PepsiCo software systems - TBD

Relocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation
Job Type: Regular