Manager - Finance

Overview

We are PepsiCo

PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies with more than $79 Billion in Net Revenue and a global portfolio of diverse and beloved brands. We have a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes 22 brands that each generate more than $1 Billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo's strength is its people. We are over 250,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, located around the world, and united by a shared set of values and goals.

PepsiCo brands can be found in just about every country on the planet, and globally we´re transforming how we make, move and sell our products. We´re in the midst of a digital transformation, defining what it means to be a CPG company in this digital age, by embracing emerging tech.
We´ve created centers of excellence, designed to inspire our people. These aren´t regular work environments: they´re incubators for inventive thinking and problem-solving. They´re where our teams come together to create brand new solutions from the ground up, to solve complex global challenges and disrupt the norm.

Overview:

- Finance Business Partnering with BU teams.
- Business partner support to provide commodity trend analysis and cost transparency to support business decisions and pricing strategies.
- Prepare Forecasts for these BUs during all Financial cycles (monthly forecast, P4F/PepsiCo Strategic Plan, P9F/ACP, AOP Ph2), including Cause-of-Change analysis explaning drivers of deviations vs. actual results and prepare BU reviews with CFOs.
- Control that Productivity reporting is done in compliance with Global GP framework.
- Finance partner to purchasing managers to support sourcing strategies and productivity programs.

Responsibilities

- Provide ongoing support to material forecasting process: Annual Operation Planning cycles, 5 Year Strategic Plans and Rolling Monthly Forecasts. Ensure the delivery of transparent (central cut) pricing assumptions, validate completeness and accuracy of the planning data.
- Support business partnership to BU teams. The analyst will support the needs of the BU by providing regular updates as the right hand of the Manager. She/he will be facilitating the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads as well as supporting Procurement reviews with CFOs.
- Collect actual prices from the BUs and facilitate financial analysis of the material price variances.
- Partner and facilitate the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads (eg. Volume sourcing/Capacity discussions).
- Subject matter expert when implementing new generation systems and tools.
- Subject matter expert to provide insightful analytics and recommendations to Purchasing Teams to support key sourcing decisions.
- Support GP Finance CFO and senior management with ad-hoc analysis requests.

Qualifications

- Be a self-starter, flexible and be able to work autonomously.
- Finance background in a BU, FP&A or Supply Chain Finance in a multinational company, preferably FMCG.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet demanding deadlines, while at the same time displaying attention to detail. Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines.
- Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Advanced Excel user is a must. Having a good understanding of database management and Cognos as a planning tool is a preference.
- Good commercial / strategic / analytical skills and understanding of business drivers; analysis of P&L.
- Interest in Economy, Macro trends and ForEx markets.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.

- Be a self-starter, flexible and be able to work autonomously.
- Finance background in a BU, FP&A or Supply Chain Finance in a multinational company, preferably FMCG.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet demanding deadlines, while at the same time displaying attention to detail. Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines.
- Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Advanced Excel user is a must. Having a good understanding of database management and Cognos as a planning tool is a preference.
- Good commercial / strategic / analytical skills and understanding of business drivers; analysis of P&L.
- Interest in Economy, Macro trends and ForEx markets.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.

- Provide ongoing support to material forecasting process: Annual Operation Planning cycles, 5 Year Strategic Plans and Rolling Monthly Forecasts. Ensure the delivery of transparent (central cut) pricing assumptions, validate completeness and accuracy of the planning data.
- Support business partnership to BU teams. The analyst will support the needs of the BU by providing regular updates as the right hand of the Manager. She/he will be facilitating the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads as well as supporting Procurement reviews with CFOs.
- Collect actual prices from the BUs and facilitate financial analysis of the material price variances.
- Partner and facilitate the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads (eg. Volume sourcing/Capacity discussions).
- Subject matter expert when implementing new generation systems and tools.
- Subject matter expert to provide insightful analytics and recommendations to Purchasing Teams to support key sourcing decisions.
- Support GP Finance CFO and senior management with ad-hoc analysis requests.

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