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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.

The Opportunity

Ownership of the financial processes such as Planning/Forecasting, Reporting, Accounting processes, Investment and Productivity tracking and involved in initiative development and execution of Andean region (Colombia, Peru & Ecuador)

This role is part of the S&T Finance LatAm team as well as part of Andean Finance staff, managing a budget of $27.3MM USD (including baseline and investment). This position interacts mainly with local Finance FP&A Managers and Directors, local Procurement, Controllership, HR, S&T Leads, S&T Ops Director, PMO Sr Manager and other S&T team members.

The purpose of this role is to work as a business partner to provide financial support and advice for decision making process. Also, this position will required to provide continuous added value to stakeholders in order to achieve aggressive productivity targets set up by the business as well as to provide support for investment execution to secure delivery of business capabilities.

Part of LatAm Productivity Central Comite, responsible of consolidation of our reported Productivity and monthly tracking in order to give full visibility to IT Leadership

Your Impact

Forecasting and Planning / Management Accounting

• Finance Business Partner role for S&T Team. Works closely with individual budget owners to develop, analyze and own their financials to ensure forecast accuracy and meet business objectives
• Lead/Coordinate/Elaborate the preparation of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP/SPP)
• Monthly forecasting, working with budget owners to develop their bottom up Forecast and aligning the overall roll up with Finance Lead/team
• Prepare AOP/Forecast/POR decks for S&T monthly reviews
• Ensure accurate and on time analysis of monthly actuals vs. forecast/plan and own delivery of monthly rolling Forecast/Outlooks through close monitoring of budget performance with focus on forecast accuracy
• Report S&T budget in SAP and TM1 with accuracy and on time, anticipating Risks and Opportunities to S&T and LatAm Finance in order to mitigate P&L impacts

Accounting/Actuals

• Work with accounting financial team to manage the close process to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial information in the systems
• Work on monthly accruals, review and provide required documentation to ensure that they are still appropriate
• Own the delivery of financial results through structured joint-effort and business partnering with assigned Local Functions and key stakeholders

Productivity and Investment Planning/Forecasting:

• Review S&T and function productivity initiatives on a monthly basis with I&O and Deployment leads and align the updates and changes
• Prepare the monthly Productivity Tracker for LatAm and send it to stakeholders

Other main tasks:

• Finance point of contact for S&T budget owners and S&T community, to address adhoc queries related to processes, reports, financials, reclassifications, cross charges
• Responsible for hierarchy changes for C&B/T&E/Procurement
• Support Control initiatives that affect S&T and Region budget: Smart Spend, Concur, etc.

Who Are We Looking For?

• 3-4 years experience in Finance Planning/Accounting position
• Bachelor Degree in Finance or similar, Industrial Engineering or Economics
• Highly analytical and strategic skills needed
• Strong understanding of reporting, accounting and control processes
• Strong leadership
• Communication Skills (Multidisciplinary at all levels) - Create an inclusive culture
• Analytical thinking and proactive personality
• English - advanced level business conversations
• SAP, Office Excel Advanced (Macros, Models, etc.), Power Point

Differentiating Competencies Required

• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to work into a Matrix organization
• Ability to improve processes and generate efficiencies
• Manage intense load work periods
• Act with integrity and inspire confidence
• Ability to operate autonomously in an ambiguou

This job requires the capacity to work under pressure, with workload picks and manage expectations of Finance and IT stakeholders: IT budget owners, LatAm IT Finance, Local Soco Finance team and IT Global teams

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.