Control & Reporting Associate Manager- Bev

The Control & Reporting—Associate Manager (Beverage Plants Controller) will oversee field operations in plants & Co-mans to ensure proper controls are in place, identify business performance issues through financial KPIs, and ensure business compliance with statutory, legal, and taxation requirements, PepsiCo corporate and local business policies and procedures, and ethical business practices.

Responsibilities

Financial Reporting

• Ensure accuracy of MOH reporting in accordance with PepsiCo Inventory policies and US GAAP
• Lead closing agenda at his/her respective plants and ensure timely submissions
• Ensure that all the monthly expenses are accounted for in the relative month
• Highlight any balance sheet and P&L risks to ensure timely provisioning at HO (QoE)
• Provide “Monthly COC Analysis vs. Plan/YAGO/PAGO
• Ensure proper execution of inventory count at month-end;
• Partner with 3rd party to implement inventory count as per the monthly procedures shared by the SC analyst
• Report any inventory deviations to management and secure approvals/alignment as per Soa
• Ensure proper classification of inventory (spare parts) as per the approved classification of the engineering departments
• Review and report all blocked, damaged, obsolete, and expiry products with the SC team to consider in the monthly provision
• Support in the periodic reviews of CWIP, Balance sheet, and Controls checklist

Performance Management reviews

• prepare monthly MOH CoC vs. prior month/year
• Track MOH on a biweekly basis with the plant manager
• Track actual performance against budget and provide financial support to the operations team
• Highlight risk/opportunities with the Ops Controller, plant manager, and planning Function

Audit & Compliance

• Support both external and internal audits on costing-related requests
• Ensure business compliance with Statutory, Legal, and Taxation requirements, PepsiCo corporate and local business policies & procedures, and ethical business practices
• Partner with BPO (Business Process Owner) and CO (Control Owner) in GCS and Fraud risk assessment, monitoring self-testing and remediation of failures
• Update the GCS MIM process
• Ensure timely closure of.
• Internal audit remediation and track progress
• BAIC issues
• Ensure adherence to SoA as per approved local policies and enforce execution
• Ensure timely GCS testing (Quarterly)
• Conduct sudden inventory counts at locations to ensure proper adherence to policies and procedures
• Governance of Fixed Assets
• Conduct physical count of assets to reconciliation with fixed asset register
• Govern the fixed assets transfers between locations
• Partner with the Engineering team to provide Idle assets reports to FA analysts on a timely basis

Business Partnership:

• Scrap process:
• Attend annual scraps bids
• Approve prices of scrap items
• Secure proper approvals as per SoA
• Open new bids for any items not included in the bid’s booklet
• Ensure prices for new bids match or exceed previously approved prices
• Supports Plant manager in resolving all the daily issues at the plant
• Lead the implementation of the Control AOP projects at plant level
• Drive cost reduction / productivity projects and support the project teams through financial analysis
• Review outsourcing arrangements and evaluate costs

Partner with Businesses in the creation of new Co-manufacturing deals

Special Projects

• Partner with the supply chain team to implement interventions to improve/utilize the system to simplify the process and enhance controls /save time

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience Foods & Beverages business
• Solid understanding of business levers
• Go-To-Person on Performance Metrics, Productivity Process, and Best Practices around Metrics
• Ability to work cross-functionally, cross-geographically, and across multiple cultures
• Strong internal and external communicator, influencer, and negotiator
• Ability to set and prioritize short, mid, and long-term objectives
• Bachelor of Accounting/Finance subject
• Postgraduate qualification preferable

Financial Reporting

• Ensure accuracy of MOH reporting in accordance with PepsiCo Inventory policies and US GAAP
• Lead closing agenda at his/her respective plants and ensure timely submissions
• Ensure that all the monthly expenses are accounted for in the relative month
• Highlight any balance sheet and P&L risks to ensure timely provisioning at HO (QoE)
• Provide “Monthly COC Analysis vs. Plan/YAGO/PAGO
• Ensure proper execution of inventory count at month-end;
• Partner with 3rd party to implement inventory count as per the monthly procedures shared by the SC analyst
• Report any inventory deviations to management and secure approvals/alignment as per Soa
• Ensure proper classification of inventory (spare parts) as per the approved classification of the engineering departments
• Review and report all blocked, damaged, obsolete, and expiry products with the SC team to consider in the monthly provision
• Support in the periodic reviews of CWIP, Balance sheet, and Controls checklist

Performance Management reviews

• prepare monthly MOH CoC vs. prior month/year
• Track MOH on a biweekly basis with the plant manager
• Track actual performance against budget and provide financial support to the operations team
• Highlight risk/opportunities with the Ops Controller, plant manager, and planning Function

Audit & Compliance

• Support both external and internal audits on costing-related requests
• Ensure business compliance with Statutory, Legal, and Taxation requirements, PepsiCo corporate and local business policies & procedures, and ethical business practices
• Partner with BPO (Business Process Owner) and CO (Control Owner) in GCS and Fraud risk assessment, monitoring self-testing and remediation of failures
• Update the GCS MIM process
• Ensure timely closure of.
• Internal audit remediation and track progress
• BAIC issues
• Ensure adherence to SoA as per approved local policies and enforce execution
• Ensure timely GCS testing (Quarterly)
• Conduct sudden inventory counts at locations to ensure proper adherence to policies and procedures
• Governance of Fixed Assets
• Conduct physical count of assets to reconciliation with fixed asset register
• Govern the fixed assets transfers between locations
• Partner with the Engineering team to provide Idle assets reports to FA analysts on a timely basis

Business Partnership:

• Scrap process:
• Attend annual scraps bids
• Approve prices of scrap items
• Secure proper approvals as per SoA
• Open new bids for any items not included in the bid’s booklet
• Ensure prices for new bids match or exceed previously approved prices
• Supports Plant manager in resolving all the daily issues at the plant
• Lead the implementation of the Control AOP projects at plant level
• Drive cost reduction / productivity projects and support the project teams through financial analysis
• Review outsourcing arrangements and evaluate costs

Partner with Businesses in the creation of new Co-manufacturing deals

Special Projects

• Partner with the supply chain team to implement interventions to improve/utilize the system to simplify the process and enhance controls /save time