AR Credit Analyst (12 month FTC)

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Credit Analyst to manage and analyze credit data, ensuring timely and accurate assessments. This role involves collaborating with various teams to apply credit policies and resolve issues. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, and excellent communication abilities. With a focus on career progression and personal development, this company offers a supportive environment for continuous learning. Enjoy a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including flexible working and enhanced parental leave. Join a team that values improvement and growth!

Benefits

Flexible working

Discounted gym membership

Health and wellbeing support

Generous company pension

Enhanced parental leave

Electric cars through salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are essential.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage and analyze credit data, ensuring accurate assessments.
• Run daily and weekly reports to support credit operations.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Task Management

Process Improvement

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft SharePoint

Job description

Overview

To manage and analyze credit data, ensuring timely and accurate credit assessments, maintaining up-to-date customer balances, and resolving customer queries promptly.

This role involves working closely with Retain AR and offshore third-party teams to apply UKI credit policy and reconcile accounts through a complexity of thousands of transactions, identifying and resolving any issues or blockers to ensure smooth credit operations.

Additionally, the Credit Analyst will support the function with ad-hoc tasks and small project work as needed.

Responsibilities

Daily Tasks:

1. Run Data extracts & update the AR Dashboard twice per day.
2. Generate the DCD report and provide a list of blocked orders to the AR assistant manager.
3. Build and analyze daily sales order block and over credit limit data.
4. Add new customer accounts to CreditSafe portfolio.
5. Perform CreditSafe credit monitoring data maintenance.

Weekly Tasks:

1. Run the Paid on Time (POT) report.
2. Run the VF04 open credit report and share it with the relevant team including follow ups and open query resolution.
3. Run the 12-month sales report.
4. Conduct customer credit limit reviews and checks.
5. Prepare banking and cash reports to support Walkers Vans daily cash reconciliations, including weekly sales billing & tracking, Cash & Card payment monitoring and Booker stock purchase deduction processing & tracking.

Monthly Tasks:

1. Update the CreditSafe file with limits from the daily email notifications received.
2. Update the CMR, Contacts, and CreditSafe files in the dashboard folder.
3. Complete all Mobius processes.
4. Review and support the deductions team with shorts deductions for specific customers.
5. Review and prepare LE transfer journals to be posted at MEC.

Walkers Vans:

1. Monthly Ladder & sales incentive credit memo processing (D&A).
2. Feed into overarching reconciliation process.

Qualifications

1. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
2. Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint).
3. Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
4. Excellent communication skills for interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
5. Willingness to engage in ongoing learning and development.
6. Ability to identify and implement process improvements.

Special features:

1. Daily interaction with the Collections Leads.
2. Collaboration with various departments to ensure accurate and timely credit assessments.
3. Frequent face-to-face contact with peers and other departments at all levels (Sales, Finance, Manufacturing & Logistics Teams).

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, critical illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb workforce. 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 the 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.