Procurement Analyst

by Vocalink Ltd

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Deadline: 15th February 2017
Salary: Competitive
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Accounting, Banking, Economics, Financial Management, Purchasing and Supply
Location: London
City: Rickmansworth

About VocaLink

We’re VocaLink. We design, build and operate world-class payment systems that underpin the majority of UK electronic payments. We’re at the forefront of mobile payments and our proven capability of implementing real time payment systems in the UK has led to the development of immediate payment solutions for other countries too. Our systems power the faster payment service on behalf of the Faster Payment Scheme, the Account Switching platform, the Bacs scheme and the Direct Debit scheme. We also connect the world’s busiest network of over 65,000 ATMs through the LINK scheme.

Our innovative, sustainable, and highly efficient payment services touch the lives of almost every person and business in the UK. We process over 90% of UK salaries, more than 70% of household bills and almost all state benefits. Our platforms have made it easier to make payments confidently, securely and cost effectively, and last year we processed over 10 billion transactions.

We know the value that experienced and engaging professionals bring to our organisation so we place the highest importance on motivating, managing and developing our employees. So much so, we’ve been awarded the Investors in People (IiP) Gold standard.

Join us and be part of our story.

Procurement Analyst

The Procurement Analyst will provide effective and efficient data analytics and reporting support to the Procurement team by extracting and querying data to produce fact based summary information to guide and enable Procurement to improve sourcing decisions.

This role will take day-to-day direction from Procurement personnel while reporting to and getting training support from the Procurement Leads & Senior Category Manager

Knowledge, Skills and experience

Essential

Teamwork

  • Ability to work effectively as a part of team and contribute to all elements of the team objectives, directly through own role or indirectly through enabling others to meet their objectives and through project work where required.

Attitude and personal motivation

  • Highly motivated to deliver quality, timely results in a pressured environment. Focussed on personal development and eager to learn.

Customer focus, communication skills and presentation skills

  • The ability to build and develop strong working relationships. Strong communication skills to assist in improvement in purchasing data management and reporting

Organising, Planning & Results Delivery

  • Strong organisational skills to manage work to high levels of accuracy within tight timeframes. Ability to prioritise the planning and delivery of workload. Holds self and others accountable for setting goals and striving for excellence.

Imports and exports good ideas

  • Ability to consider the current and propose ideas for improvement

Desirable

  • Computer skills, including knowledge of SAP systems; Excellent Excel skills, strong skills in Powerpoint, Word, and Access – further training will be provided
  • Data Extraction - ability to extract and query data from systems
  • Data Validation - knowledge of and ability to understand and resolve data inconsistencies or variances

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate looking for a placement role - typical course may be, but not limited to: business studies, finance, maths, accountancy, statistics

Application process

Please apply through our careers page on our website. If your application is of interest you will be invited to complete a telephone interview, after which candidates will be shortlisted to attend an assessment centre in early 2017.

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