Accounting Operations Assistant Analyst For PepsiCo


 Job Description

PepsiCo’s strength is its people. Winning together is all about respect for one another’s rare traits, backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Our teams reflect the diversity of our customers and our communities, breaking down barriers and winning awards.

Around the world, we're working hard to give people the tastes they crave and the nutrition they need. We dream globally and act locally, constantly innovating to sustain our planet, our people, our communities and our business practices. As a global food and beverage company with brands that stand for quality and are respected household names such as Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay’s and Pepsi-Cola, we are committed to Performance with Purpose; pushing to be best and fully committed to the people we share the planet with.

Accountabilties

Financial Reporting:

Adherence to closing agenda timeline

Prepare the monthly inventory physical count procedures across all locations

Follow-up with plant controllers to resolve all issues that may rise during the count process

Ensure that the count is performed according to Pepsico’s policies and procedures

Communicate/analyze physical count results and provide justification to management regarding the count differences

Get the approval of management as per the SOA on the count differences and reflect such differences on SAP

Prepare the inventory reserve analysis, secure needed approvals and ensure proper recording. This reserve analysis consists of; Finished goods, Raw Materials & Spare Parts.

Monitor the inventory in transit between all locations and warehouses. Investigate for any abnormal activities in the transit areas

Check the unit price per category in B/S vs. COGs

Update the FG auxiliary report with the PBI variance capitalization manual entry (Beverages)

Check the ending balances on Inventory GL accounts are reconciled with the Auxiliary reports for each inventory category

Ensures no negative inventory stocks at month-end

Update the supplier allocation sheet: R&P ending stock from auxiliary report, receipts from MB51, PO price/unit t-code ME2N

Monthly tracking for breakage, damaged products and expired products by; (Beverages) :DC ,Price point, SKU

Write-off process

Responsible for the write off process across all locations

Prepares the write off analysis and secure the needed approvals

Performance Management Reviews

Conduct Monthly and Quarterly detailed Balance Sheet review for all Inventory accounts together with the necessary aging and COC

Highlight of any balance sheet risks to management

Prepares monthly inventory deck comparing actual vs. previous month and last year

Issue monthly Operations Deck

Audit & Compliance

Support both external and internal audit 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 GCS MIM process

Ensure timely closure of; Internal audit remediation and track progress & BAIC issues

Ensure adherence of SoA as per approved local policies and enforce execution

Ensure timely GCS testing (Quarterly)

Perform sudden visits to all warehouses to perform sudden counts

Business Partnership

Review all SC contracts and evaluate costs

Attend S&OP meetings and engage to enhance MRP process

Planning And Forecasting

Partner with Supply chain and planning finance to develop and track financial metrics and validate assumption for productivity projects to ensure tangible savings are delivered to P&L

Partner with Planning Finance to ensure working capital forecast accuracy and improvements through Inventory (DII) and Cash Flows Analysis

Special Projects

Identify scope for process improvements and interventions from time to time to achieve process simplification / better controls / process standardization / accounting / outsourcing

Lead & partner with BIS to implement system enhancements of COGS and inventory management areas.

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or any relevant discipline.

Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a similar role

English Language Proficiency is a must

Excellent Analytical skills

Excellent Communication skills

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