Lead Engineer - 2, SAP S4 RTR

Job description

Overview

This role supports the sustainment and delivery of the General Ledger (GL), Accounting and Close (ACL), Banking, Revenue Management and Accounts Payable (AP) capabilities of the Pepsico Global template (PGT) (built through SAP S4 concepts for PBNA). With a specific focus on the integration with MTD, PTP, and OTC value streams. Objectives of the role are to ensure that PGT supports the execution of PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) business processes. This role will adopt and adhere to PepsiCo Agile Methodology principles to sustain existing solution and deploy future capabilities as part of the PepsiCo Global Template solution.

Finance components in Scope in Designing, implementing and maintaining
- the accounting framework, including all month end activities required to ensure that the month’s financial results are accurate, complete and in compliance with PepsiCo’s corporate, sector and local market accounting policies.
- the general ledger chart of accounts, coding structure, interrelationships with primary information gathering systems (e.g. Profitability Analysis, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Taxes, Payroll, Fixed assets, Project Accounting etc.) and such controlling structures and the use of sub-ledgers
- the profitability analysis framework to ensure that the function complies with PepsiCo’s corporate, sector, local market accounting and financial planning policies and delivers business value;
- the activities necessary to produce management accounting, cost accounting for the Make To Deploy and Procurement, including the setting of standards, recording of actuals and the delivery of meaning financial comparison reporting to enable better operational decision making.

Core L3 Processes covered:
• Accounting & Close Operations
Accounting & Financial Close
Accounting & Financial Close — Parallel Ledger
Intercompany Processes
Intercompany Processes — Reconciliation
Plant Period End-Closing
Operational Processing
• Bank & Cash Management
Bank Account Management
Basic Cash Operations
Cash Journal
Electronic Bank Statement
Bank Integration with File Interface
• Revenue & Cost Accounting
Revenue Recognition
Profitability and Cost Analysis
• Accounts Payable
Invoice Processing (PO and Non PO invoice, Consignment, Evaluated Receipt Settlement)
Payment Processing (Check, Auto Debit, Electronic Payments)
Downpayment
Integration with PTP
Periodic activities (GR/IR clearing/aging, AP reporting and analysis, month end reporting)

 

Responsibilities

• Partner with the GL and ACL, AP, AR and BCM Global Process Leads (GPL), Solution Design Leads (SDL) and Controlling global leads to support the end-to-end solution - Accountable
• Support decision-making for GL and ACL, AP and BCM localization of functionality in the Pepsico Global Template as part of PBNA - Accountable
• Ensure PepsiCo Corporate Accounting policies related to Financial and Controls reporting reflected in the global template are implemented to standard with appropriate localization – Consult / Execute
• Collaborate with the GL and ACL, AP and BCM Global Process Leads and Global SMEs to implement and deploy the Pepsico Global Template – Consult/Execute
• Actively engage and educate business process owners on solution optimization, simplification and standardization capabilities – Consult / Execute
• Ensure global lift and shift opportunities are deployed across the sectors – Consult / Execute
• Collaborate with all scrum teams to implement and deploy the end-to-end Global ERP solution leveraging agile methodology – Consult / Execute
• Oversee Incidents pertaining to RTR and manage teams to bring them to quick resolution - Accountable
• Work closely and collaborate with onshore and offshore scrum team members to ensure a prioritized and sufficient product backlog for the teams to work against – Consult / Execute
• Participate in key Sprint planning, retrospectives and other key ceremonies – Consult / Execute
• Along with scrum team identify, monitor and implement key agreed-upon improvements - Consult / Execute

Qualifications

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

• 4-6years of experience configuring, deploying and managing SAP ERP with a focus General Ledger and Accounting Close, Accounts Payable and Bank & Cash, and Integration with MTD, OTC and PTP value stream and Controls.
• 2+ years of SAP S4 experience preferred.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree preferred.
• 4-6 years of experience configuring, deploying and managing SAP ERP with a focus General Ledger and Accounting Close, Accounts Payable and Bank & Cash, and Integration with MTD, OTC and PTP value stream and Controls.
• 2+ years of SAP S4 experience preferred.
• Strong Financial & Management Accounting and Controls experience with SAP General Ledger and Controlling in a global capacity
• Experience with profitability analysis

MANDATORY NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
• Ability to work flexible hours based on varying business requirements
• Knowledge and experience in the following tools, disciplines and processes are nice to have: SAP SolMan 7+ , Azure DevOps, Quality Center, Service Now, Xmatters and MS Project
• Solves highly complex problems within their work team
• Strong influencing, facilitating, and consulting skills in working with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and across departments

DIFFERENTIATING COMPETENCIES

• Negotiation Skills
• Coaching/Facilitation skills (as promoted by the Agile Coaching Institute), including but not limited to
o Levels of Listening
o Conflict Resolution
o Root Cause facilitation
o Training techniques
• Motivational and insiring, leading by example and taking others with her/him
• Adherent to the Responsive Working techniques (or alike agile work habbits)
• Rigurous on the management of the delivery of quality services by 3rd parties