About PepsiCo
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

Core Aim:
To support business to be ready for PepsiCo Global Template by driving reduction in invoice holds and clearing aged Accounts Payable balance sheet items.

The role will require the individual to, with some guidance from the Accounts Payable Manager:

• Drive Adherence to Accounts Payable Standard Process for invoice processing to improve Paid on time metric through supplier statement reconciliation
• Act as a business partner with IBM, inspiring trust and collaborate to influence service delivery of key P2P processes.
• Identify and resolve aged balance sheet items, working with IBM/relevant stakeholders
• Working with Accounts Payable Analyst to independently contact and influence Key Stakeholders that are driving invoice holds to resolve exceptions to release invoice for payment.
• Support supplier escalations that are received into retained team, liaising with IBM and Key stakeholders to drive resolution.
• 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.
• Align senior stakeholders on any significant changes required to unlock resolution to recurring issues driving invoice exceptions.
• Provide weekly updates to Accounts Payable Manager on progress of invoice holds and balance sheet items.
• Ad Hoc cover of Accounts Payable day to day tasks during busy periods as and when required.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• 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 plans through busy periods to support Accounts Payable 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