Fresh Roles at PepsiCo

Overview

• Own and execute the commercial agenda within the Trading markets and grow markets in line with Business strategy with a key focus on delivery VOL NR and GP across 4 different categories.
• Develop High performing markets into strategic trade markets through channel & Category development & RTM
• To achieve annual operating plans by developing, implementing,sales plans; analysing macro economic trends while building and maintaining strong customer and distributor relations.
• Build and develop Trading markets into scale whilst balancing and managing a potfolio mix of different markets and categories whilst identifying new opportunity markets

Responsibilities

Deliver the AOP against VOL NR and GP by focusing on 25 markets with clear process; plans and execution by driving sales through existing customers whilst identifying new markets for development and execution to deliver additional revenue.

Finance

• Achieve Net Revenue; profit and volume plan across portfolio of markets
• Manage and implement the relevant trading terms and inco terms between Distributors and customers within each country to ensure all agreed elements are adhered to.
• Understanding the value chain to market and optimizing RSP
• Conduct portfiolio and Market review against AOP on VOL NR and GP and report into business
• Scenarion Planning & Gap analysis in order to achieve deliverables
• Ownership & Accountability for by market P&Ls to deliver profit for reinvestment

Customer

• Develop Higher performing markets into strategic trade markets with a focus on Channel management and Category management with a P&L lens
• Market analysis for new market creation/ development. Penetration and execution to significantly shift the commercial growth agenda
• Ensure effective communication & Liasing with Distributors to enable growth and development
• Acquire new customers and mini distributors to increase market penetration
• Customer retention monitoring by market by month
• Identify New markets for business development
• Develop and Unlock Quaker Plan for Africa Markets in close collaboration with Commercial Lead
• Drive Snacks acceleration in Africa

Process

• Receive and follow up on orders by customer monthly
• Understand ways of working by commercial team through WECA
• Recommend changes to optimize processes on delivering to these diverse portfolio of markets
• Forecast on a monthly basis by customer; by product
• Manage claims effectively and close off within specified timelines
• Be proactive and creative with new potential markets with regular prospecting

People

• Directly manage distributors & Distributor teams to deliver key results
• Close collaboration with support functions of Finance; Supply Chain and Marketing
• Conduct Weekly & monthly sales meetings with line manager and team
• Develop sound business relationships
• Be proactive and creative with new potential markets with regular prospecting
• Collect and organize info from Market and distributors, in order to enable plans and strategies.

Quaker & Pep Portugal & Pep Egypt Exports Commercial coordination consists of:

• Weekly meetings with Commercial managers and BU Teams to ensure Demand /Supply /execution is met.
• Quaker sales Tracker is updated daily for visibility /Demand /Supply and execution
• Tracker to be created for visibility on AOP vs demand / NR and Cal GP per by country by commercial manager, shared weekly
• Alignment on Financial and Sales forecast by commercial manager, by Country rolling up to total Financial period forecasting
• To ensure all BU agreements copies are received and filed for audit purposes on any Trade Support or activities done.
• Ensuring all prices are uploaded into the system, ensuring a consolidated report of all pricing /discount is correct and filed per month
• Ensuring PO's are received 8 weeks prior to execution
• Ensuring PFI's are issued 10 days prior to month of shipping this to ensure payments received and cleared to enable execution throughout the month and not adding pressure in executing shipments last week of the month
• Age Analysis ; SOA’s and Payment alignment with BU’s
• Setting up/ opening of new accounts (liaison between BUs and WECA Commercial)
• Liaison between BU’s finance on account statements, payments for execution
• Coordinate payments received from customer to different factories
• Weekly lead alignment on MTD performance VOL NR GP and GAP to AOP
• Facilitating clean information sharing and communication between the 3 different BU’s and the WECA Commercial East West Rest Of World team as well as its customers

Qualifications

• Grade 12 - Computer literacy – Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint
• 3 year Degree (sales, marketing, business management)
• Excellent interpersonal, customer service and communication skills
• 3-5 years Managerial experience in FMCG environment 
• Africa Market exposure
• 5 years minimun Sales experience, working with customers

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Responsibilities

What are we looking for?

• Responsible for providing accounts payable services to vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Investigates, tracks and reports all invoices and processes them for payment.
• Check account balances and reconciles to vendor statements.
• Follow-ups on invoice/payment discrepancies and control vendor master data. Ensures timely and accurate payment of invoices.
• Report on overdue accounts status.
• Report on invalid liabilities impacting the P&L (GRIR).
• Sends follow-up inquiries on short paid invoices to vendors.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for this role?

• Matric
• National Diploma/Degree in a Finance related field
• MS Office
• Sap experience preferred
• 2-3 Years experience in Accounts Payable

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Responsibilities

• Dismantled machinery or equipment
• Assembled, installed, and aligned equipment and machinery
• Moved machinery and equipment.
• Constructed foundation for machines
• Repaired and lubricated machinery and equipment
• Repaired basic electrical circuitry and components.
• Tested units to evaluate electrical & mechanical operations.
• Set programmable logical circuits (PLC's)

Qualifications

• Matric
• Electrician trade test certificate
• 3-5 years relevant experience
• Strong electrical background
• Preferable to have a wireman’s license or must be interested and willing to study and attain a wireman’s license.
• PLC and automation experience
• Must have leadership experience and capabilities through previous roles performed

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Responsibilities

What are we looking for?

• Capturing of payments and accurate reconciliation of debtor’s accounts
• Claims management - control and processing of all claims deducted by customer in the form of transport claims,sallies, ensuring that adhoc claims are processed by the sales admin team and that the stock related claims suchas returns and damages is processed on time by the responsible unit
• Master Data management – ensuring that the master data is 100% correct and compliant to the SOP. Alsoensuring the safe and correct handling of debtor’s information, to be in line with the POPI act
• Maintaining good customer relationships both internally and externally
• Ensuring that the approved credit terms and limits are not exceeded
• Bookkeeping – Ensuring accurate clearing of accounts, timeously submitting of statements to avoid non-paymentor late payments
• Reporting – 30, 60, 90, 120 days and action plans POD Control reporting, Price Discrepancy report, Cash Inflow and Settlement discount report
• Advising superiors of potential bad debts in order to take necessary action steps
• Inter department communication – Sales Admin, Sales, PFLS, etc.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for this role?

• Computer skills incl SAP & BI
• Decision Making & Problem solving
• Knowledge of Financial & Management Accounting
• FMCG Industry knowledge
• Interpersonal & Relationship building Skills
• Persuasion, Influence and Negotiation skills
• Communication skills
• Good business acumen
• Attention to detail 

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Responsibilities

What we're looking for:

We're looking for a Payroll & Travel and Entertainment & Lead to join our team. Successful incumbent will

• Identify payroll requirements based on financial, benefits, and HR policies.
• Administer payroll and oversee services of outsourced payroll service provider.  
• Conducting reconciliations to ensure payroll integrity. Manage financial postings.
• Reporting on payroll information.
• Operate controls and monitor compliance with internal controls policies and procedures.
• Manage people.

Accountabilities: 

• Before the pay cycle, identify payroll requirements based on financial, benefits, and HR policies - recognizing the employee requirements for compensation based on the financial, benefits, and HR policies of the organization and legislative changes.
• Administer payroll- managing the sum of all financial records of compensation for an employee, including pay, bonuses, earnings and deductions. Use a payroll management system to deal with the financial aspects of employees' compensation, allowances, deductions, gross pay, net pay, etc.
• Manage payments- managing the total payments made in employees’ payroll, including bonuses and compensation.
• Process and distribute payments- processing and distributing compensation to all employees. Execute the payroll management function through the dispensation of employee compensation.
• Manage and process Expat payroll
• Manage and process Independent Contractor payroll
• Manage and process payroll taxes- deducting and paying taxes from employees' compensation. Requesting tax directives.
• Paying tax according to appropriate deductions made from compensation- calculate and pay the tax liabilities according to the compensation and tax regulations of employees. Filing EMP201 with SARS.
• Conducting reconciliations to ensure payroll integrity- payroll, GL account, banking, UIF, SDL PAYE reconciliations.
• Manage financial postings- understanding account structures & codes; vendor payments, payments to UIF & treasury notification, and clearing 3rd party vendor accounts.
• Reporting on payroll information; leave & bonus provisions, allowances, FI expenses, and outstanding tax amounts. Submitting statutory declarations and COIDA reports. (Decision making accountability- Financial Control)
• Operate controls and monitor compliance with internal controls policies and procedures.
• Monitor control effectiveness. Remediate control deficiencies. Implement and maintain technologies and tools to enable the internal controls-related activities.
• Filing and e-filing of payroll control documents for audit compliance.
• Manage complex inquiries- handling instances where a stakeholder desires clarification. (Providing support- Employee compensation & benefits)
• Supervise system performance- evaluating and handling the performance of payroll processes. Provide training to process owners. Measure and report the performance of the payroll system.
• People management (Decision making accountability- HR) -
  • Screen and select candidates. Evaluating and selecting potential employees through interviews.
  • Manage employee performance. Defining individual performance objectives. Review performance to provide appraisals.
  • Manage employee development. Establishing employee development guidelines. Manage the development of their skills to enhance their skills, ability, and knowledge.
  • Manage employee relations. Assisting general management in developing, maintaining, and improving employee relationships. This is accomplished through communication, performance management, processing grievances, and/or dispute. Interpret and convey organizational policies.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of
  • law e.g. BCEA, PAYE, UIF, WCA, Skills Levy Act, ETI
  • regulations e.g. retirement, tax, loans, Retrenchments and CCMA
  • HR and Finance policies
  • and collective agreements
• Expert experience of relevant SAP modules and supporting technology
• Expert organnisational knowledge of structures and business units
• Commerce Degree, preferably a post-graduate qualification
• People and service organizational experience
• Commercial or Payroll experience of more than 10 years including strong accounting work experience preferably FMCG