Fp&a Analyst

Pepsico

Cork

We are now recruiting a FP&A Analyst to join our finance team in Cork on a 12 month fixed term contract initially. We are the concentrate team in PepsiCo (PGCS) working across the Beverage, Nutrition and Snacks categories to deliver concentrate for many of PepsiCo's mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi. We are at the heart of PepsiCo products, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for our brands. We are a global organisation, situated in 17 locations across 11 countries offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, R&D, HR and IT. We want team members who can collaborate in our fast paced global organisation and are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world. Let's be frank. PepsiCo is a $63billion global business. It is extremely complex. And our Finance community make sense of it by tracking our overall business results, helping maximise our financial performance and put in place the right controls to ensure accuracy and transparency of our results. Whether working in Financial Planning, Operations Finance, Back Office or Controls, the Finance function takes a central role in the way we run our business. Do you want to be a part of the financial heartbeat of our organisation? If so we could take your talents to a whole new level. This role will support Innovation Costing team through the provision of end to end product costing and standard cost management in SAP. Primary Accountabilities: End to end product costing and financial new product set-up for Cork, Singapore, Colonia and Arlington plants, including third party supplied items. Standard cost management within SAP on a day to day basis and at year end for multiple plants. Partnership with Supply Chain Innovation and Global Planning teams to ensure delivery of accurate costings, right first time and on time. Ensuring that operations finance is delivering world class data. Collaboration with the innovation execution teams to ensure accurate and timely setups. Supporting the Innovation Costing Senior Analyst to provide financial analysis for early stage innovation costings. Working in close collaboration with R&D and BU finance teams to deliver preliminary cost analysis for new innovations. Tracking final costs of new innovations against preliminary financial analysis to understand variations & provide insightful cause of change analysis to leadership stakeholders within PGCS, R&D, G groups & BUs. Essential Skills: Ideally a professionally qualified or part-qualified accountant with experience in a high volume multinational manufacturing environment. Excellent understanding of standard costing systems and variances. Committed to quality with the drive and determination to fulfil objectives within deadlines. Initiative and a high degree of self-motivation are essential. Ability to identify issues on a timely basis, identify an action plan to resolve issues and influence others to implement the action plan. An appetite for continuous improvement and adding value to the business. Ability to manage conflicting priorities and deliver on key priorities. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to relate to and influence co-workers (both financial and non-financial) across various departments and all levels of the organisation. Excellent Excel skills a necessity. Systems literate with SAP costing experience a distinct advantage. Virtual and in person collaboration, communication and influencing skills are key to success in this role - the main interactions for this role are with supply chain. Establishing and maintaining good working relationships is vital. Strong analytical skills are required to review ingredient, BOM and supply chain data to translate into insightful recommendations. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated approximately $63 billion in net revenue in 2016, 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. At the heart of PepsiCo is Performance with Purpose - our fundamental belief that the success of our company is inextricably linked to the sustainability of the world around. We believe that continuously improving the products we sell, operating responsibly to protect our planet and empowering people around the world is what enables PepsiCo to run a successful global company that creates long-term value for society and our shareholders. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com. For the purposes of external advertising we have called this role a FP&A Analyst However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be Finance Associate Analyst Innovation Costing. This job originally appeared on RecruitIreland.com.

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