Control & Reporting Associate

Overview

Manage payroll and employee related payments, ensure accurate financial representation for both P&L and Balance sheet, partner with HR team and ensure compliance with PepsiCo policies and procedures (e.g., GCS) and Co- own/support HR team in maintaining up to date H2R cycle and ensure meeting GCS requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with BU HR team as well as CBS HR team and ensure smooth payroll and employee related payment process.
• Share new initiatives and areas of improvements with SC Controller and follow through for implementation.
• Work proactively with peers to achieve common business objectives and reach optimized status
• Understand organizational values, set objectives, work for common goals and self-develop for carrier progress.
• Ensure timely payroll monthly payment through:
  • Effective review over payroll files received from CBS HR Team
  • Timely payroll upload on bank portal for payment
  • Post payroll related entries posting
  • Monitor SSC (IBM) execution and ensure accurate financial postings.
• Review end of service settlement and payment
• Own control function related costs (people and non-people) and ensure accurate and timely reporting to sector.
• Support in building control cost AOP as well as rolling forecast
• Maintain and reconcile accrual accounts for compensation and benefits related costs.
• Prepare balance sheet review with proper cause of change vs PAGO/YAGO
• Support both external and internal audit on people cost 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 H2R process as necessary
• Ensure adherence to SoA as per approved local policies and enforce execution.
• Ensure timely GCS testing (Quarterly) testing.
• Effective execution of Control
  • Understand the objective of the control - Ongoing. 
  • Document the test script attributes for effective execution of the control - As necessary.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the control through testing - Quarterly/As necessary.
  • Maintain an audit trail to evidence execution of the activities, sufficient to enable re-performance by independent 3rd party - On going.
  • Remediate any control deficiency -   As necessary.
  • Provide results of verification - As necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance
• At least 2 years of core finance experience.
• Hands on experience in SAP software modules.
• High on Initiative and Analytical thinking.
• Good relationships building and interpersonal skills.
• Good supervisory skills.