PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $64 billion in net revenue in 2018, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. 'Winning with Purpose' reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of the business. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

We are currently looking for an Accounts Payable Officer to join our small, specialist team. This is a 6 month contract role to start as soon as possible, to be based at our UK Head Office in Reading.

In a busy environment like PepsiCo it can sometimes be tricky to keep accounting procedures running smoothly. It's not just about processing invoices and keeping to deadlines, our Accounts Payable team work hard to resolve challenges and find innovative solutions whilst maintaining an excellent level of service to both internal stake holders and external suppliers.
The role will require someone who is flexible, has a positive attitude to change and able to work in a fast paced, high volume environment. This role would suit someone with experience in a transactional based finance role.

What you'll get up to:

• Drive Adherence to AP Standard Process for invoice processing to improve Paid on time metric
• Act as a business partner with IBM, inspiring trust and collaborate to influence service delivery of key P2P processes.
• Review, track progress and resolve invoice holds weekly both for My Buy (PO based spend) and Share (Non PO base spend)
• Independently contact and influence Key Stakeholders that are driving invoice holds to resolve exceptions to release invoice for payment- working with AP My Buy Super users but also increasing own knowledge on My Buy.
• Take ownership of supplier escalations that are received into retained team, liaising with IBM and Key stakeholders to drive resolution to improve Paid on time metric.
• Prioritise critical suppliers but also focus on aged invoice exceptions.
• Provide support to all functions to resolve invoice holds both in MyBuy and Share
• Investigate root cause of exceptions and support stakeholders to be more proactive.
• Conduct periodic reviews with IBM on both internal and external query management quality assurance. E.g helpdesk tickets being raised.
• Act as the critical link between the business and IBM, rationalising issues and creating visibility of issues to support pragmatic long term solutions
• Align senior stakeholders on any significant changes required to unlock resolution to recurring issues driving invoice exceptions.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in an Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable type role
• Strong, confident self-starter, capable of working on various priorities at the same time and organising own actions and workload without the structure of day to day routine tasks. Also capable of flexing through busy periods to support AP team on other tasks when required.
• Able to work with some direction from Manager, but happy to drive day to day without supervision.
• Strong collaboration, relationship building skills inspiring trust through various cross functional business partners to achieve objective of role.
• Strong communication skills, able to flex style to work and support people at various levels of knowledge and experience, including an offshore team
• Good excel skills
• Ability to cut through issues, identify route cause, generate solutions to eliminate future occurrences
• Ability to create and support an inclusive environment and a healthy work/ life balance approach; working with a diverse group of people from different backgrounds

Careers at PepsiCo
We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

We offer a competitive salary and package, private healthcare, pension and many other benefits as well as fantastic flexible working opportunities.



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