Junior Commercial Finance Analyst

Job description

Auto req ID: 224100BR

Job Description

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Tropicana, Doritos and Naked Juice, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been consistently voted as Top Employer. On a larger scale, PepsiCo produces the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 product lines that each generates more than $1billion in annual retail sales.

We are looking for an ambitious Commercial Planning Analyst to join our Commercial Service Delivery team based in Reading.

What you'll be doing:
·  Manage the robust administration and accounting of sales investments (especially promotions), including promotion setup, invoice validation and deduction management.
·  Run the period close process for each account, including accruals management and balance reconciliations.
·  Own data reporting for each account, including standard reports on a weekly and monthly basis, plus ad hoc requests.
·  Provide timely and accurate information for management reporting to generate insightful business analysis.
·  Translate sales account initiatives into accurate sales data forecasts for promotions, new products and other initiatives, and determine the performance of historic sales promotions and record the sales uplifts accurately in the system (“actualisation”)
·  Collaborate with sales, demand planners, business partners to ensure a robust forecast build in the system
·  Support NPD launch – volume, pricing builds in system

Qualifications/Requirements

What we're looking for:
·  Assertive and independent with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
·  Collaborate with & influence across all levels in Sales, Supply Chain, BU Finance, NR Strategy, FP&A, A/R teams on a day to day basis
·  Experience of working in an FMCG or Blue-Chip organisation would be preferred
·  Experience working closely with commercial teams would be preferred
·  Good Excel skills, e.g. comfortable with Pivots and V-Lookups & accounting
·  Strong financial planning and forecasting skills
·  Good knowledge of financial systems or ability to learn quickly
·  Graduate and pursuing/ plans to pursue professional accounting qualification (CIMA or ACCA or any other)
·  Quickly analyses complex problems to find actionable, pragmatic solutions
·  Consistently works against the right priorities and takes the initiative to find ways to get better results
·  Demonstrates a ‘can-do’ attitude and sense of passion, enjoyment and pride about their work
·  Innovative: Takes the initiative to find ways to get better results; Actively seeks and takes advantage of ideas, best practices, and solutions developed elsewhere; Develops creative solutions and different ways of doing things that add value Here at PepsiCo, we're passionate about developing our people, so as well as being part of a successful and hardworking team you'll have access to a wealth of ongoing training & development and of course some fantastic career prospects with one of the largest food & beverage companies in the UK.

Salary & benefits:
We'll offer a competitive salary, study support for your professional qualification, and flexible benefits package (for example, 25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell more, company pension, discounted private health care).
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Based in Reading
Relocation Eligible: Not Applicable
Job Type: Regular

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.