PGCS Finance Function - Readiness and Change Coordinator

Overview

Who We are:

• We are the concentrate team in PepsiCo (PGCS) working across the Beverage, Nutrition and Snacks categories to deliver concentrate for many of PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi.  
• We are at the heart of PepsiCo products, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for our brands. 
• We are a global organisation, situated in 15 locations across 6 countries offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, R&D, HR and IT.
• We collaborate in our fast-paced global organisation and are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.  

This is a unique project role within PGCS, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to play a critical part in the enablement of the SAP S4 HANA migration. The role has a dual purpose focusing on 2 areas – function and change readiness. 

 

This role provides support and coordination on overall functional readiness for the Finance function ensuring both business operations and people adoption are fully prepared for a successful S4 deployment. Acting as the primary liaison between the PGCS S4 Project, functional leadership, and local teams, the role coordinates change management, readiness, testing, training, communications, cutover, and hypercare activities. 

 

This is a specified purpose contract role for up to 10 months.

 

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities:

 

• Lead functional and change readiness across stakeholder alignment, testing, training, communications, cutover, go-live and hypercare.

• Coordinate business resources, Super Users and functional teams against deployment milestones. 

• Monitor readiness, risks, issues and dependencies, escalating gaps and driving actions to closure. 

• Provide clear status updates and support leadership sponsorship, decisions and accountability.

 

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:

 

• Validate change impacts, local requirements and readiness plans; maintain action, risk, issue and dependency logs.

• Coordinate UAT, DILO, FDR and data validation schedules, participation, defect resolution and status reporting.

• Deliver stakeholder engagement, communications and training plans, including audience validation, attendance and completion tracking.

• Coordinate cutover and go-live readiness, checkpoints, communications, escalation and business continuity activities.

• Support hypercare, issue triage, adoption monitoring, feedback and transition to business-as-usual operations, culminating in a go-live readiness recommendation.

 

 

Qualifications

Required Skills 

• Change management, stakeholder engagement and influencing without authority

• Project management and operational readiness planning

• Strong communication, facilitation and cross-functional coordination

• Business acumen and understanding of Finance processes

• Cultural awareness and ability to operate across local and project teams

*For Internal applicants: The S4 project has a tailored resourcing approach; The successful candidate would move laterally into this role to broaden experience and develop new skills – the level of this role is indicative only.

 

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At PepsiCo, opportunity is for everyone.

 

• Being recognised as a Great Place to Work in Ireland, highlights how PepsiCo has become a workplace where we foster a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion with acceptance and respect for all employees.
• ‘A space to be you’ is our initiative that creates a collaborative, equitable and inclusive space where everyone, regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who we love, has a voice.
• We make reasonable accommodations for our employees and create a supportive work environment that provides a sense of community for employees who may otherwise feel marginalized or isolated.
• pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is the future of our company. It’s the core strategy that will guide how our business will grow for decades to come, all while having a positive impact on the planet and people.

 

For the purposes of external advertising we have called this role a PGCS Finance Function - Readiness and Change Coordinator. However please note that the internal job title the successful candidate will have will be FP&A Sr Analyst.

  

 

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