Contract and Procurement Analyst

Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 108 offices in 45 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
Turner & Townsend recognise the fact that our employees are the key to our future growth. We invest heavily in the training, development and regular appraisal of our people: by managing each employee's career aspirations and by promoting from within at every opportunity, we believe we have created a stimulating, challenging and exciting working environment for our staff.
Job Description**
Responsabilities**:
- Administrative-financial activities: such duties comprehend projects cost control, invoices payment monitoring and purchase requisitions control with procedures update. Moreover activities list also contains: setup and definition of ERP´S cost structure, outstanding invoices analysis, purchase order´s available budget monitoring, accrual preparation and projects financial status monitoring with reports preparation. The SCOPE is to be provisioned within client´s offices.
- Administrative-procurement activities such duties comprehend project´s cost control, invoices payment monitoring and purchase requisitions control with procedures update. Moreover, interface with suppliers to request for proposals, equalizations of offers and emissions of purchase orders.
**Routine details**:
- Manages the volumes of purchase order activities required to support business purchasing requirements within an end to end cycle that aims to pay the 3rd Party suppliers within agreed payment terms.
- Ensure transactions and workflows are processed and that all associated daytoday activities are delivered at topquartile performance levels.
- Seek and execute continuing improvements within the process and act as a primary contact for issues related to legal entities transacting in the ERP, and form part of the global network supporting stakeholders in production and maintenance of ERP Purchase Orders.
- Resolve issues with Requisitioners, Procurement Staff, Vendors, Tax and Finance, and ensure that processes are understood and followed.
- Create Purchase Requisition (PR) and Service Entry (SE) from ERP Requisitions.
- Maintain PR/SE and resolve any associated queries on a timely basis: involving close liaison with the designated invoice query focal point, Business community and Accounts Payable.
- Provide commercial and advice to stakeholders, including Business Originators, requisitions, receptors, Accounts Payable, and Vendors. All consistently in line with guidelines and the Category Management and Contracting Process.
- Identify and analyze diligently all the issues related to Non-Compliance and late payment of invoices and improve the performance.
- Identify potential Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunities in support of the drive for greater efficiency (especially opportunities for greater automation, and consolidation of activity), and possibly take part in these CI initiatives to assist in the implementation and execution of actions arising.
- Work in close coordination with Category managers, Procurement Managers and Senior Buyers in maintenance of Contracts and Outline Agreements in ERP System.
**Qualifications**:
- Good work experience as a procurement analyst
- Knowledge in sap´s purchase requisitions related modules
- Proven work experience with sourcing process
- Knowledge in purchasing process and fluent English

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