Process Design Authority Manager

**Overview**

**Preferred locations: PepsiCo locations in Southwest Europe (Spain) and in Central Europe (Poland, Romania)**

The primary focus of this role is to lead the process design agenda, including harmonization, control reduction and optimization leveraging automation activities for key business processes across different Sectors, defining the strategy to streamline/optimize controls and providing guidance to the multiple teams involved, working in partnership with broad community of Risk Owners Organization, Business Process and Control Owners, BU Controllers and Field IC, and Functional Peers in the GPEX Teams.

The Process Design Authority (PDA) Manager will be closely connected to the Internal Contols CoE Leads and work as part of the global internal control team.

**Responsibilities**

**Support the Global Process Design agenda**:

- Work with the Global Process Design Lead to develop a sustainable control design strategy for all business processes considering the complexity across different Sectors
- Ensure proper process design of the business cycles (Financial Reporting, Purchase to Pay, Inventory to Cost, Sales to Collection and Non-Core) by executing E2E process review
- Work with the MUs on Risk Assessments to identify opportunities to streamline and increase efficiency and effectiveness of the internal control framework
- Re design control activities and/or key controls in the business cycles with focus in harmonization across Sectors
- Work with the Internal Control CoE leads to develop a sustainable control optimization strategy with a high degree of compliance across the organization
- Bench existing number of key controls among Sectors and develop harmonization and standardization for every business process
- Interact with Corporate Audit and provide any requirement related to processes and/or controls design
- Remediate any key control design failure as result of GCS testing and Corporate Audits results

**Drive PepsiCo’s Global Control Standard (GCS 4.0) agenda including**:

- Identify and train Risk Owners, Control Owners (CO) and Process Owners (PO) to improve their capability to understand GCS agenda with focus in risk assessment and control requirements.
- Work with Control Owners (CO) and Process Owners (PO) to facilitate an effective risk assessment program, identify relevant risks and leverage automation activities for Key controls
- Regular review of local policies and procedures with local SMEs and Internal Control CoE Leads to ensure risk identification is mitigated with control activities according to policies
- Execute review of control activities for risk associated with Fraud
- Work with GPEX Peers on ITGC, IT App controls, SAP Configurable controls, SAP SoD, CACs, SOC Reports and Cybersecurity centralization agenda

**Project support**:

- Support Risk Assessments for any Project with impact in the business process, such us, PGT, Conectados, Hercules, among others.
- Work with GPEX Transformation Team for initiatives related to control optimization by leveraging automation

**Optimization**:

- Benchmark among the Sectors to adopt best practices where practical to ensure effective, efficient, and harmonized key controls
- Work with Internal Control leads, GPEX Leads and BU Process Owners to improve process effectiveness and efficiency.

**People Responsibilities**:

- Establish effective communication and diligently work with the BUs Control Teams, Process Owners (PO), Control Owners (CO), Internal Control Leads, and the broader Global Internal Control Team
- Effectively plan and execute a long-term development strategy with career goals and other identified opportunities

**Qualifications**
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Finance/Audit
- Deep understanding of PepsiCo’s Global Control Standard and control implications in the operating model. Strong understanding of PepsiCo business processes, Accounting principles and USGAAP
- Understanding of end-to-end process, systems, and data flows across organization at business and finance-side and proficiency in IT systems: ERP, Planning & Reporting tools, and integrated solutions
- Bachelor’s Degree (Finance, Business or Accounting).
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven collaboration/teamwork experience.
- Proven capability in driving complex agendas, leading, and influencing the organization towards the stated goals.
- Simplification & automation mindset to reduce waste and non-value add work
- Good negotiation, influencing and communication skills
- Ability to prepare and present control information to senior leaders
- Collaborate and share best practices across different teams
- Experience in working as part of a virtual, global group
- Demonstrated ability to achieve objectives; focus on details, structured
- Fluent in English, Spanish (Plus Portuguese)
- Expected travel around 10%