A&M Procurement and Financial Processing Specialist with Turkish

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

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