Control & Reporting Assoc Manager

Overview

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT 

 

At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day. 

 

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve. 

 

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you. 

Responsibilities

The Opportunity

 

Support the Internal Control and transition agenda for S&T - MCC processes before, during, and after migration, ensuring business continuity, clear control ownership, effective risk management, and sustainable compliance with the Global Control Standard, COSO, and SOX requirements. Drive control maturity, standardization, simplification, and digitization through testing, monitoring, audit support, remediation, analytics, continuous improvement and design, deploy, and govern innovative digital capabilities that simplify control execution.

 

 

Your Impact   

 

 

As Control & Reporting Assoc Manager your scope would consist of… 

• Lead the end-to-end control workstream for MCC process transitions, from planning and readiness assessment through handover, stabilization, and post-migration monitoring, to prevent disruption and sustain control effectiveness. 
• Maintain the inventory of controls transitioning to the Hub, confirm Control Owners, and establish clear roles, evidence requirements, governance, and escalation paths for each transition wave. 
• Assess process and control design for new, changing, or migrating services; identify gaps and emerging risks; and define preventive mitigation actions before go-live. 
• Lead independent control testing and ongoing monitoring, report deficiencies, provide effective challenge, and agree sustainable remediation plans with Process and Control Owners. 
• Lead Global Control Standard certifications and control maturity initiatives in alignment with COSO and SOX, including risk and control awareness training. 
• Govern and maintain control documentation, including policies and procedures, process flows, walkthroughs, test scripts, risk and control matrices, and GCS master data. 
• Partner with Process Design Authority, Subject Matter Experts, Process Executives, Process Owners, Control Owners, and functional or tower leads to implement a sustainable post-migration control model. 
• Drive standardization, simplification, optimization, and automation of processes and controls using analytics, robotics, digital tools, Agile or Lean practices, and cross-Hub benchmarks. 
• Lead support for internal and external audits, coordinate evidence and management responses, review conclusions, and monitor remediation through timely and sustainable closure. 
• Establish KPIs, reporting, stakeholder communication, risk escalation, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement routines for the control and transition agenda. 
• Identify, design, deploy, and continuously optimize high-value AI and automation solutions across controls, audit, transitions, and reporting by translating business requirements into scalable Copilot/AI-agent workflows, user stories, decision logic, analytics, and measurable outcomes using low-code and generative AI platforms.

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?   

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Data/Computer Science or a related field. 
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in Internal Control, Audit, Accounting, Finance, risk management, process transformation, analytics, or automation; Big Four experience preferred. 
• Strong knowledge of COSO, SOX, auditing standards, control design, control testing, and financial and operational controls. 
• Experience across end-to-end business processes such as Sales, Finance Control, Marketing & Insights, FP&A, HR & Payroll, Supply Chain, and shared services. 
• Experience supporting process migrations, service expansions, stabilization, and post-go-live control monitoring in a GBS or shared-services environment. 
• Understanding of ERP environments, systems, data flows, and planning and reporting solutions. 
• Experience leading cross-functional work and influencing stakeholders across levels, functions, countries, and cultures. 
• Advanced English and strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish. 
• Practical experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Dataverse, connectors, APIs, or comparable low-code/no-code and generative AI platforms.
• Stakeholder management and communication at all management levels. 
• Control-minded business judgment and ability to balance risk, continuity, and transformation. 
• Planning, prioritization, and project management across simultaneous transition waves, audits, and testing cycles. 
• Analytical thinking, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and structured problem solving. 
• Change leadership, adaptability, and comfort working in a matrix organization and with ambiguity. 
• Accountability, initiative, teamwork, and ability to work independently under pressure. 
• Cross-cultural collaboration, emotional intelligence, and relationship building. 
• Technology perspective and continuous-improvement mindset. 

 

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.  

   

What can you expect from us:  

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.   

• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.   

• Development programs according to Leadership skills.   

• Specialized training according to the role.   

• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.   

• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.   

• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.   

• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.  

• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.   

   

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.