Main Purpose of the Job:
To support IAC’s Global Purchasing Finance team, reporting to the European Senior Procurement Finance Manager. The team provide financial and business leadership to the Indirect Procurement Director and their team. In addition to owning financial reporting of actuals, forecasts, and budgets, the team is also responsible to provide financial analyses for key indirect procurement projects.
Main Missions and Results:
- Assists in the weekly and monthly analysis and reporting of savings
- Assist in driving the Procurement team on cost down activities
- Conduct financial risk assessments on new vendors as part of vendor selection process via Rapid Ratings or equivalent reviews to evaluate Supply base health
- Calculate Monthly Payment Terms and estimate their impact on working capital
- Track weekly ECN/RFQ performance of the Direct Procurement Team.
- Prepare analysis on an ad hoc basis to support strategic initiatives
- Review of key processes to drive process improvements
- Assist in the monthly forecasting and Annual Operating Plan (AOP/Budget) analysis including providing support regarding insight into forecast results versus prior year, previous forecast, and ongoing AOP/Budget
- In concert with the Accounting and Audit teams, support appropriate internal controls including SOX and other accounting policy compliance measures Global Purchasing
- Prepare presentations for weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, annual budgets, and business planning initiatives
- Assist Purchasing to ensure understanding of business and financial targets and performance against those targets by helping to identify/realize opportunities while managing risks
- Work with plant controllers to ensure local operations follow standardized procedures and produce standardized reporting of both actuals and forecasts
- Validates Indirect Procurement savings project plans and ensures they are properly reflected in the forecast
- Duplicate PO maintenance (work with buyers to ensure PO’s and prices are clean and accurate with our Procurement system called AS400)
- Support daily activities by supporting administration activities across the department to ensure accurate and timely processing completed.
- work within standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Proficient in Excel (Intermediate to Advance level)
- Ability to analyse financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections with a strong attention to detail. Comfortable in working with large databases.
- Able to solve standard problems using existing procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to make solid, objective, ethical commercial decisions
- Able to maintain strict confidence in sensitive information and demonstrate a high level of integrity
- Excellent communication and analysis skills required
- Ability to work collaboratively in a diverse environment and interact effectively with all stakeholders, build professional relationships both internally and externally.
- Willingness to continuously learn and be open to feedback to improve individual performance.
- Ability to understand concepts and ideas quickly and model data in meaningful ways
- Naturally Inquisitive - comfortable and willing to interrogate existing process/systems with large and incomplete data but accepts that not every query has an exact answer
- Proactive in proposing ideas to challenge status quo
- Flexible and adaptable to a constant changing environment
- Ability to remain calm and independent when faced with sensitive and difficult situations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience in a multi-site environment
- Must be a motivated self-starter
- Ability to both support and challenge key stakeholders is vital.