Reporting Lead - Sr Manager

PepsiCo; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo in Gurgaon seeks an experienced finance leader to oversee USGAAP reporting, statutory and tax closings, and end‑to‑end financial processes for multiple entities. You will drive accuracy, timeliness and policy compliance across R2R, GFSS, and payroll controls.

The role requires CA with 12–14 years in FMCG finance, strong analytical, presentation and communication skills, and the ability to partner with the OU CFO and business leads to deliver robust reporting and governance.

Qualifications

• CA with 12–14 years in reporting & accounting, preferably in FMCG.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate USGAAP book closure for every period close.
• Manage statutory audit end to end and coordinate with auditors for board meetings and regulatory filings.
• Oversee tax accounts, audit coordination, and statutory timelines with Legal and BU leadership.
• Drive GFSS MIS delivery, data insights, and template standardisation for Balance Sheet review.
• Maintain inter‑co transactions booking and inter‑co reconciliation with accuracy.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Education

CA

Job description

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.

• Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely reporting for USGAAP Financials & Pre-closes, including all related monthly, quarterly and annual submissions and Rep Letters, Indian GAAP (2 closings annually – statutory and tax accounts), and Bangladesh GAAP, of 7 legal entities, including 2 in Bangladesh.
• Policy Compliance: Ensure financials are compliant with PEP policies.
• Payroll: Ensure timely investments, audits of PF Trust & SAF Trust of PEP, appropriate payroll accounting, accurate cross‑charge for location‑free employees with other PEP entities and 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 ad‑hoc sector reporting requests.
  • Ensure GCS compliance and annual risk assessment compliance for FR.
  • Manage statutory audit from end to end – plan the audit with auditors, prepare financials, coordinate with vertical leads to ensure audit support, close open issues with auditor, and coordinate with Legal for board meeting, XBRL release and PPGA with media release.
  • Manage tax accounts end to end – plan audit, prepare financials, coordinate with vertical leads for audit support, close open issues, and coordinate with Legal for statutory filing timelines.
  • Develop a plan for timely closing.
  • Maintain a 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.
  • Manage BU G&A close – review adequacy and accuracy of provisions.
  • Anchor G&A productivity for Controls function.
  • Ensure timely & accurate booking of inter‑co transactions and inter‑co reconciliation.
• GFSS:
  • Monitor timely delivery of MIS.
  • Analyse MIS to draw insights and achieve better business results.
  • Improve MIS reporting, templates and standards.
  • Drive compilation and standardisation of Balance Sheet review through SSC.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage GFSS and optimise processes already outsourced to GFSS – through simplification, elimination and automation.
  • Design action plan with SSC and monitor timely execution.
  • Coordinate with International GFSS COE Lead for process improvements, resolve 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 query resolution through JIRA.
  • Highlight issues and concerns raised by customers 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 harmonisation opportunities, define best practices, design and implement new processes with cross‑functional departments.
  • Define SLAs, CPIs, service‑level credits, ARCs, RRCs & technologies and discuss with stakeholders to define scope of work with Sector GFSS COE Lead.
  • Provide oversight to IBM regarding people management, including managing attrition and key process owners.
  • Drive SSC culture through workshops, e‑learning courses and sessions.
  • Facilitate interlocks & cross‑pollination of processes and ways of working between IBM team and PepsiCo.
  • Manage escalations and ensure ways of working for vertical within Finance & across the organization.
  • 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 cross‑charge 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 shared service or capability centers).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills.