Acctg Ops Asst Analyst

**Responsibilities**:
**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:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or any relevant discipline.
- from 2-3 years of experience in Finance.
- English Language Proficiency is a must
- Excellent Analytical skills
- Excellent Communication skills