Reporting Lead - Sr Manager

Overview:

This is an L11 role, based out of Gurgaon (India OU HQ) and has a team of 5, including 4 direct reports and reports to the India OU Controller.

At a broader level, the role is responsible to:

Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely reporting for USGAAP Financials & Pre-closes, including all related monthly quarterly/annual/ submissions and Rep Letters, Indian GAAP (2 closings annually - stat accounts & tax accounts), and Bangladesh GAAP, of 7 legal entities, including 2 in Bangladesh.

Policy Compliance: Ensure financials are compliance with PEP policies

Payroll: Ensure timely investments, audits of PF Trust & SAF Trust of PEP and appropriate payroll accounting and accurate crosscharge for location free employees with other PEP entities & reconciliation thereof

GFSS: Manage the delivery of transaction processing at GFSS in an efficient manner, including identification of optimisation opportunities for R2R & S2C.

Key stakeholders of the role include OU CFO, RCOE, External Auditors (KPMG), OU Counsel, Region Control VPs and OU GM.

Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting:

Ensure timely and accurate financial book closure for every period close for USGAAP

Ensure timely and accurate submission of all scheduled and adhoc Sector reporting requests

Ensure GCS Compliance, annual Risk Assessment compliance for FR

Manage Statutory Audit from end to end – planning the audit with the Auditors, prep of financials, coordinating with vertical leads to ensure audit support and closing open issues with Auditor, coordinate with Legal for Board meeting, XBRL release and PPGA with media release

Manage Tax Accounts end to end – planning the audit with the Auditors, prep of financials, coordinating with vertical leads to ensure audit support and closing open issues with Auditor, coordinate with Legal for Board meeting within statutory filing timelines.

Develop a plan for timely closing

Checklist to ensure completeness and timely execution of activities

Monitor whether the closing reporting checklists are being followed

Monitor the test results of key controls of FR

Ensure Blackline certification is completed as per process

Ensure BSR is carried out with Controller every quarter as per process and annually with BU CFO

Ensure closure of all open BSR review observations

Ensure management of BU G&A close – review adequacy and accuracy of provisions

Anchor G&A productivity for Controls function

Ensure timely & accurate booking of interco transactions and interco reconciliation.

GFSS:

Monitor timely delivery of MIS

Analyse MIS to draw insights to achieve better business results

Improve MIS reporting, templates & standards

Drive compilation and standardization of Balance sheet review through SSC

Identify opportunities to leverage GFSS and also optimise processes already outsourced to GFSS – through simplification, elimination, automation.

Design action plan along with SSC& monitor timely execution

Coordinate with International GFSS COE Lead for process improvements and resolution of roadblocks and for CARs as agreed

Ensure DTP is annually reviewed and updated.

Build and refine processes to ensure smooth payments process, claims processing and Financial reporting process

Drive Value engineering at SSC

Ensure PepsiCo policies adherence across processes in SSC

Resolve conflicts, complaints and queries in a manner that enhances the relationship between the SSC and its customers

Monitor queries resolution through JIRA

Ensure highlighting of issues and concerns raised by customers as necessary to appropriate staff within the SSC and monitor resolution

Identify root cause, Monitor calls with location to drive down exception in P2P and S2C to ensure smooth processing at SSC

Identify harmonization opportunities, define best practices, design right Monitor whether SLAs are met

process, implement the new process by taking along cross functional department

Define SLAs, CPIs, service level credits, ARCs, RRCs & technologies and have discussions with stakeholders to define scope of work, in coordination with Sector GFSS COE Lead

Provide oversight to IBM regarding people management including managing attrition, key process owner etc.

Drive SSC culture in the organizations through workshops, e-learning courses & session

Facilitate interlocks & cross pollination of processes & ways of working between IBM team and PepsiCo

Manage escalations

Ensuring ways of working of vertical within Finance & across organization

Must review and approve DTP for any new process migrated to GFSS and any process change during the year.

Payroll

Manage Retirals Accounting and preparation of Financial Statements - PF Trust, SAF Trust, RPFC payments, LIC/ICICI for SAF

Ensure timely audits and investments in the trusts

Ensure compliance relating to Trust Financials and Investment categories.

Set up process & controls for all types of salary crosscharge processes.

Team Management

Drive organization Health Survey Score

Build capability by driving certifications & courses

Qualifications:

CA with 12-14 years of prior experience in reporting & accounting preferably in an FMCG sector (direct employment and not through their shared service/capability centers).

Require excellent communication skills

Require excellent analytical and presentation skills