Manager - Finance

Overview

Global Procurement Europe (GPE) Finance plays a key role and represents ~40% of PepsiCo Europe P&L. This is a critical role in managing $2.0Bn direct material cost for Central Europe and Greater Balkans business units (BU) and dedicated to support the following areas within GPE Finance:

• Finance Business Partnering with Seasonings & Ingredients, Foil and labels from Flexible packaging accountable for ~$0.5Bn direct materials spend within Europe.
• Business partner support to Central Europe and Greater Balkans $0.4Bn- to provide commodity trend analysis and cost transparency to support business decisions and pricing strategies.
• Prepare Forecasts for these BUs during all Financial cycles (monthly forecast, P4F/PepsiCo Strategic Plan, P9F/ACP, AOP Ph2), including Cause-of-Change analysis explaning drivers of deviations vs. actual results and prepare BU reviews with CFOs.
• Control that Productivity reporting is done in compliance with Global GP framework.
• Finance partner to purchasing managers to support sourcing strategies and productivity programs.
• Right hand of Purchasing Planning Senior Director and Managers to represent Finance agenda for Seasonings & Ingredients / Flex packaging materials.
  
  

• Provide ongoing support to material forecasting process: Annual Operation Planning cycles, 5 Year Strategic Plans and Rolling Monthly Forecasts. Ensure the delivery of transparent (central cut) pricing assumptions, validate completeness and accuracy of the planning data.
• Support business partnership to Central Europe, Greater Balkans. This Market has a complex category structure (juice, beverage, snacks), operating within the challenging and volatile macro environment. The analyst will support the needs of this market by providing regular updates as the right hand of the Manager. She/he will be facilitating the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads as well as supporting Procurement reviews with CFOs.
• Collect actual prices from the BUs and facilitate financial analysis of the material price variances.
• Partner and facilitate the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads (eg. Volume sourcing/Capacity discussions).
• Subject matter expert when implementing new generation systems and tools.
• Subject matter expert to provide insightful analytics and recommendations to Purchasing Teams to support key sourcing decisions.
• Support GP Finance CFO and senior management with ad-hoc analysis requests.
  
  

• Be a self-starter, flexible and be able to work autonomously.
• Finance background in a BU, FP&A or Supply Chain Finance in a multinational company, preferably FMCG (3 years).
• Able to work under pressure and to meet demanding deadlines, while at the same time displaying attention to detail. Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines.
• Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Advanced Excel user is a must. Having a good understanding of database management and Cognos as a planning tool is a preferance.
• Good commercial / strategic / analytical skills and understanding of business drivers; analysis of P&L.
• Interest in Economy, Macro trends and ForEx markets.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Able to communicate to internal stakeholders on a different levels (PMs, Directors, SCF and BU Planners)
• Strong collaboration / ability to work in matrix environment
• Strategic thinker with hands on attitude and challenging mindset
• Pro-active