Control & Reporting Analyst

Job description

Overview

The primary focus of this role is to support internal control agenda for CCC (Cairo) GCC Hub. The scope will include Delivery Towers Controls (EMEA Sectors BU controls, transitioned to CCC, including SOX controls of EMEA Sector) support and Corporate and External Audit (KPMG) Support. This role will also support GCC Transformation project and play an important role in PepsiCo GCC transformation journey from internal control transformation perspective.

The role will also support Global GCC DMO controls and other Global GCC Projects and initiatives.

Responsibilities

Internal Control (Delivery Tower

• Controls and Global DMO controls): Manage Global DMO Teams (MCC-based DMO CoE, CCC-based DMO Hub, EMEA based DMO business partners) to ensure that global DMO controls execution and self-assessment will be done timely in line with the Corporate Reporting Calendar; Manage GCC CCC Finance
• Control team and external vendors (if applicable) to ensure that business controls execution and self-assessment will be done timely in line with the Corporate Reporting Calendar; Manage GCS Controls Training for New Joiners in CCC.

Ensure timely GCS e-learning completion by the New Joiners; Support global IT control agenda (legacy systems and access ITGCs) for the GCC CCC hub; Regular review of local policies with SMEs for relevance including Schedule of Authority (SoA) as well as SAP access to ensure proper segregation of duties Corporate & External

Audit: Manage external (KPMG) and Corporate audit requests to be sure that they will be fulfilled on time by the Control and Process Owners (Global DMO controls, CCC hub Delivery Tower controls moved to CCC from BUs); Ensure that issues identified by the auditors will be timely addressed GCC Transformation project: Support GCC EMEA and

Global DMO Internal Control Manager with the transformation agenda; Play SME role for the business process assigned and support various BUs across EMEA Sector with the processes transformation to CCC in the context of internal control agenda for the scope assigned; Develop a sustainable post migration control strategy with a high degree of proportional ownership across the organization.

People Responsibilities

Develop and facilitate an effective risk assessment program by working with PO, CO to review existing processes, identify relevant risks and design or update control activities to properly mitigate risk Ensure that Control and Process Owners will timely complete quarterly reporting in Optra and GCS Portal in accordance with the strict reporting deadlines; Ensure that Control and Process owners are well-trained to be fully qualified to execute control activities and self-assessment in accordance with PepsiCo methodology requirements and global best practices.

Conduct ad-hoc trainings for Control and Process owners. Optimization Identify opportunities to streamline and increase efficiency and effectiveness of the control framework; Work with business process owner to improve process effectiveness and efficiency. Benchmark with other GCC hubs to adopt best practices where practical to ensure effective, efficient and standard business processes; Optimize own performance to increase productivity, recommend changes of process standards and procedures, identify areas for process / report standardization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or related International Degree in Accounting, Business or Finance; 2-3 years of experience in Internal
• Control or Internal
• Audit functions, covering COSO / SOX implementation and / or testing, process improvements and audits, Big-4 experience preferred Experience of work in FMCG Companies is preferred Able to work independently, under pressure with tight deadlines and maintain a positive attitude, exceptional interpersonal and communication skills Able to quickly develop a deep understanding of end-to-end business processes, systems and data flows across an organization
• Proficiency in IT systems preferred: ERP (SAP/Oracle), planning & reporting tools and integrated solutions Able to drive change effectively at different levels throughout the organization Fluent in English