Auto req ID: 231746BR
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 voted a Top Employer for the sixth year in a row. 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.
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’re looking for a Fully Qualified Finance Analyst to join our UK Finance team, specifically within the operating expenditure (OPEX) team. We’re looking for an ambitious individual who’s excited to develop their finance career at PepsiCo. This role will be based at our Head Office in Reading, with plenty of flexible working in the future (our office is currently closed).
What you’ll get up to:
- The purpose of the role is to proactively lead the management the of the UK BU selling overhead cost base by collaboratively business partnering with the senior budget holders and functional leaders to inform and support spending analysis and cost/budget management.
- The role plays a key part in the delivery of our financial KPI’s, ensuring timely and accurate planning, reporting and analysis.
- Play a key role in change projects to support a continuous improvement culture on cost management and profit delivery.
- Partner with cost centre owners, own and manage budget performance, resolution of accounting issues
- Lead on implementation of process and systems improvements, design specification and resolve implementation issues of new systems to support more efficient and effective spend management and maximise the team’s focus on adding value
- Maintain sound financial controls including balance sheet reconciliations.
- Play a key role in the team’s stewardship of overall SG&A spend, identifying opportunities and guiding the medium/long term productivity journey
- Work with procurement teams to ensure productivity opportunities are validated, implemented in budgets and tracked.
Qualifications/Requirements
What we’re looking for:
- Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
- Financial Planning/Forecasting/reporting
- Systems skills – Strong Excel, financial systems knowledge
- Strong attention to detail – accurate financial reporting and planning, robust execution of financial controls
- Passion for spending money efficiently and reducing ‘non-value added’ spend
- Process planning and management; able to develop and own the budget forecast process for own cost centres
- Analytical skills and numerical judgement; able to explain variances, forecast spend accurately, design robust processes and systems
- Attention to detail,
- Well organised, Self sufficient & Proactive; able to schedule and prioritise many competing priorities to deliver independently against deadlines
- Strong collaboration skills and influencer;
- Flexibility, and capable of dealing with ambiguity; Can-do, flexible resilient attitude – able to respond to rapidly changing/ urgent priorities
Salary & benefits:
We’ll offer a competitive salary, bonus, private health care, flexible benefits package (for example, 25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell more, company pension)
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.
#LI-UKRelocation Eligible: Not Applicable
Job Type: Pipeline
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.
