Purchasing Analyst 1

Job Summary

As a Purchasing Analyst within the Procurement Team, you will be responsible for most of the transactional
procurement work for one or more of our Business Units, ensuring requisitions & purchase orders are executed on-time, suppliers deliver goods & services as required, and supplier invoice payments.

Responsibilities

• Guide internal stakeholders on policy and practices for using procurement systems; raising requisitions; committing Purchase Orders to suppliers; and paying supplier invoices.
• Review requisitions for external vendor spend, check for accuracy and process as appropriate
• Ensure all Purchase Orders are dispatched to suppliers on a timely basis and follow-up as required to ensurethey have been received, processed and have a delivery date
• Work with suppliers to amend delivery dates on goods and services as deemed necessary by the business.
• Ensure purchase orders comply with contract terms and work to improve the efficiency of the purchase to payprocess.
• Ensure Purchase orders pricing is accurate, and take steps internally and with suppliers to correct pricedeviations in advance of invoice holds
• Proactively manage supplier performance on PO commitments, delivery and Invoice accuracy
• Ensure suppliers follow the correct procedures for submitting invoices for paymentSupplier pricing negotiation
• Supporting supplier performance & relationship management
• Work with Accounts Payable organizations to clear any invoices on-hold (matching exceptions) to ensure on timesupplier payments
• Be the Subject Matter Expert for our Procurement Systems (Peoplesoft, Oracle, Coupa). Troubleshoot issues toresolution.
• Use system reporting and your own bespoke analysis in Excel and/or Power BI to drive decision making andprioritization.
• Extract spend data from accounts payable or other databases and create spend reports.
• Undertake RFP/RFQ work for competitively tendered business opportunities
• Perform competitive analysis on supplier bids
• Prepare and present regular and ad-hoc purchasing recommendations to purchasing management.
• Undertake Purchasing system UAT support activities as assigned
  Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Required Education and Experience

• University education (Bachelor´s degree) or University education (Master´s degree)
• Knowledge of purchasing methodologies, principles, theories, processes and practices.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, Advanced MS Excel skills preferred
• Technical accounting skills.
• Good analytical and numeracy skills.
• Organized with attention to detail
• Proactive, adaptable & flexible approach
• Ability to identify financial issues and execute mitigating actions.
• Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple work requirements to meet deadlines.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients.
• English Language is required (min B2 level, prefer C1/C2)
• Typically requires min 2 - 3 years of prior relevant experience in Procurement, Purchasing and/or AccountsPayable.

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