Cntrl & Rpt Assoc Manager

**Responsibilities**

Financial Reporting

1- Manage costing process for Beverages businesses during month-end and its related month-end transactions

2- Ensure accuracy Direct material and MOH reporting in accordance with PepsiCo Inventory policies and US GAAP

3- Lead IBM team to deliver all costing deliverables and meet reporting requirements as per agreed DTP (Desktop Procedures)

4- Prepare monthly Costing reports which includes:

- Analysis of material revaluation account
- Analyze PPV actual results with COC by material
- Review MOH bookings among manufacturing cost centers
- Review MOH allocation among factories, brands & categories via reviewing allocation cycles
- Compare MOH with production volume & follow up on significant deviations
- Analyze direct labor cost per plant & compare with production volume
- Standard cost updates vs. previous month and justifies the differences.
- Check accuracy of the standard costing calculation and validate the planning calculation with the system calculation for FG
- Manage monthly review of Materials Usage Variance by material, Plant & Category which include:

- Monthly MUV report comparing actual consumption by material, category & Plant to both operation and R&D teams
- Monthly meeting with operations and R&D team to discuss variances & variances percentages to identify current inefficiencies and agree on corrective actions.

iii. Communication of agreed action plan to management in addition to follow up on its implementation across all plants
- Analysis Cost per raw case
- Cause of change month over month and year over year business rational

5- Provide business recommendations monthly for finished goods based on actual activity rate analysis (MOH & labor analysis) and support in balance sheet analysis for Beverages

6- Manage SAP actualization process including SAP/non SAP check points and accounts reconciliations

Performance Management reviews

7- Ensures correctness of the following on SAP for Beverages
- Material master data of any materials
- BOM changes/creation whether for standard or production version
- Current BOM’s on SAP are up to standard and up to date

8- Review SAP standard cost release (raw material, packaging material and finished goods)

9- Work closely with business partners to support productivity initiatives

Audit & Compliance

10- Support both external and internal audit on costing related requests

11- Ensure business compliance with Statutory, Legal and Taxation requirements, PepsiCo corporate and local business policies & procedures, and ethical business practices

12- 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 for MIM process

13- Deliver testing for costing GCS related controls

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

Planning and Forecasting

15- Prepare required analysis for 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

Special Projects

16- work together with Ops team to do UAT testing for new system enhancements in plants.

17- Prepare required documentation and business case analysis with BIS to implement system enhancements of COGS and inventory management areas

**Qualifications**
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in accounting/control.
- Leadership experience and capability. Solid understanding of business levers.
- Change management experience coupled with good analytical abilities
- Ability to work cross-functionally, cross-geographically and across multiple cultures
- Strong internal and external communicator, influencer, and negotiator.
- Ability to set and priorities short, mid and long-term objectives.
- Partnering & influencing Senior stakeholders (Plants managers)
- Operations cross functional interaction and alignment
- Costing & Plant accounting experience