A&M Procurement and Financial Processing Specialist with Turkish

Job description

Overview

Location Overview                                                                                 

Working with inspiring and experienced colleagues, you'll find that the atmosphere in our city-centre office in Kraków is informal and engaging. With drive and ingenuity, our teams deliver vital services to PepsiCo employees around the world. With an active, get-things-done culture, this is a place where your dynamism and agility will make a difference. 

Job Overview

·  Procurement

This role will support the A&M Procurement and Financial Processing agenda for Turkish BU and is responsible for supporting the management of agency roster and optimization on Non-working A&M initiatives particularly in the area of agency fees, ad production & A&M reporting.

·  Financial Processing

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.

Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities

Procurement

·  This role will support the A&M Procurement agenda for Turkish BU and is responsible for management of Preferred Supplier List and optimization on Non-working and Working A&M initiatives, particularly in the area of agency fees, ad production & A&M reporting.
·  Identify efficiency opportunities
·  Support brand teams in agency negotiations
·  Develop and maintain preferred supplier lists approved by the category leads and updated annually; socialize the use of the list by brand teams & track adherence
·  Partner with brand teams & legal to lead contracts with agency partners
·  Suppliers performance evaluation
·  Efficiencies tracking and alignment with stakeholders
·  Contracts management

Financial Processing

Maintain Brand Budgets

·  Collaborate with control function to align 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
·  Approval Matrix Update
·  Accruals creation support and follow up, avoiding A&M fall in/out are not detected and booked timely as well as ensuring that the remaining part of the A&M accrual is the adequate during the following year.
Qualifications

·  Minimum 1 years experience in procurement, ideally working in the field of advertising
·  A junior level analytics professional with experience in Finance 1 year+ experience
·  Experience using best-in-class sourcing strategies specifically supplier evaluation, selection, performance reporting, contract negotiations, price inflation management & savings metrics is preferred
·  Bachelor’s Degree in any disciple.
·  Good communication skills and proficiency in English language
·  Fluent in Turkish lenguage
·  Capacity to build trustful relationships in all levels of organization
·  Highly efficient with Excel and Microsoft Office programs
·  Be flexible, organized and able to handle competing priorities