Ongoing Recruitment at PepsiCo Nigeria

PepsiCo - In 1965, Donald Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi-Cola, and Herman Lay, the CEO of Frito-Lay, recognized what they called “a marriage made in heaven,” a single company delivering perfectly-salty snacks served alongside the best cola on earth. Their vision led to what quickly became one of the world's leading food and beverage companies: PepsiCo. Our company is made up of seven divisions: PepsiCo Beverages North America; Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia/New Zealand and China. Each of these divisions has its own unique history and way of doing business.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Senior Tax Associate

Job Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Treasury & Tax Mgr: Leadership, governance, monitoring, reconciling and administering of the Tax & Treasury process to achieve all targets set (AOP and other non-financial targets) within the financial control mandate. Specific focus:

Taxation Management:

• Support to consolidate and deliver timely, accurate and reliable tax calculations / data including monthly FAS109 disclosures, quarterly and annual tax submissions to the relevant quarters – sector, regulatory authorities
• Support to manage all tax inputs int the P&L
• Support to manage all tax returns, tax requests and tax audits from all tax authorities.
• Understand, document and communicate potential tax risks including but not limited to uncertain tax positions.
• Develop networks and initiate discussions / meetings with external consultants and government departments to obtain insights and alignment on potential savings for the company
• Contribute to ensure MUs Tax Returns and coordinate the review by an external audit firm before submissions.
• Manage tax risks and exposures arising from existing and new operations for the MU
• Support to review all drafts to revenue authorities, ensuring compliance to the Tax Laws as it relates to Nigeria and PepsiCo.
• Partner with PepsiCo Corporate Tax and external Tax consultants in relation to emerging Tax laws, identify and implement optimum tax planning arrangements for the business.
• Drive productivity through understanding and exploring all potential tax savings available to the business including project definition and leadership to deliver Tax savings
• Support with Month-end reporting for Treasury and Tax
• Manage the statutory audit for purposes of Annual Financial Statements and ensure accurate presentation and disclosure of taxation in the Annual Financial Statements year on year.

Application Closing Date: 15th October, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitmentnigeria@pepsico.com using "Senior Tax Associate" as the subject of the mail.

2.) Internal Auditor

Ref ID: 327389
Job Location: Lagos

Overview

• Ensure that internal controls are adequate,and functioning as intended, in order to minimise business risk.
• Advice the business on control solutions and be involved in the implementation thereof to minimize risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the control element of key business projects to ensure all risks and controls are adequately identified and mitigated within the business
• Partner with the business to develop and coordinate risk management programmes and ensure risk management programmes are designed to identify and measure risk
• Partner with business to develop sustainable control initiatives and ensure execution and follow-up of agreed solutions
• Responsible to make accurate risk mitigating recommendations to implement controls, transfer risk to avoid the risk related business. Collect and analyses risk information and ensure that the organisation is adequately protected against loss
• Review and implement company policy and procedures to ensure that these are in line with the latest business requirements /support efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Conducts investigations and gathers evidence to endure that the organisation recovers potential losses and take corrective actions
• Review and implement company policy and procedures to ensure that these are in line with the latest business requirements, supports efficiency and cost -effectiveness
• Prepares local business unit audits in anticipation of annual corporate audit
• Responsible for working directly with senior management.

Qualifications

• ICAN
• 3 Years of Articles from Big4
• 2-4 years Internal Audit (advantageous)
• Sound knowledge of effective internal controls & Risk management frameworks
• FMCG experience (post articles) business process design & project involvement.

Application Closing Date: 26th October, 2024.

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3.) Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager

Req ID: 330728
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Overview
Co-lead (with CFO) the Financial Planning & Analysis agenda including the following:

• Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Monthly rolling forecast (MRF)
• Monthly, Quarterly and Annual submissions to BU team and co-lead these reviews with CFO
• Scenario analysis / Product costings in coordination with the business stakeholders
• Performance analysis against the plan and MRF to provide decision support system
• Capex monitoring and submission
• Innovation monitoring and submission
• Business partnering to drive focus on NRM and cost efficiency
• Support CFO in strategic planning and other day to day business affairs

Responsibilities

• Accountabilities are statements of the important end results which the job must achieve.
• These statements should relate to an end result or objective which must be accomplished and against which some measurement of performance can be applied.

FP&A:

• Prepare AOP and Rolling Forecast to deliver business targets for the three businesses in Nigeria; i.e. Sausage Roll, Oats and Extrudes in order to support the development of the AOP and forward looking commercial financial forecasts for the BU
• Highlight future performance concerns and opportunities to remediate any gaps to targets
• Ensure timely submission to sector and drive monthly business reviews
• Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting including monitoring and advising on long-term business and financial planning:
• Co-Lead annual, monthly and quarterly reviews with BU/Sector team
• Prepare, rollout and monitor dashboards to lead business and financial performance discussions with stakeholders
• To measure forecasts against variables and monitor the overall financial health of the Nigeria Business
• Support CFO in preparing and updating strategic business plan for outer years
• Brand P&L reporting and drive discussions with commercial team on profitability
• Bottomup opex and monthly analysis vs YAGO and AOP
• Manage and develop the financial resources governing the commercial/supply chain l financial forecasting processes, including process and system

Commercial:

• Bottomup annual and monthly cost budgets in cooridation with Sales and Marketing teams
• Lead the financial analysis process and financial business case proposals for new commercial business developments (i.e. NPD P&L’s, capital expansion DCF / ROI models) and lead the reviews with BU/Sector teams
• Responsible for ensuring the iS&OP volumes are translated into revenue plans by forming links to Demand Planning & central FP&A
• Establish/drive NRM agenda to deliver profitable topline growth
• Provide commercial/financial insight and leadership across the business in order to exceed business plan targets

Supply Chain:

• Bottomup annual and monthly cost budgets in cooridation with Supply chain and GP teams
• Drive and review cost deep dives across various funcations including GP, Operations, COMAN team
• Business partnering to drive focus on cost efficiency, as well as uplift profitability performance and the overall business strategy
• Product costings and scenario analysis to help business taking informed decisions
• Research economic trends, analyze internal operations, and identify areas for cost reduction and process enhancement
• Drive productivity initiatives across the organiastion through target setting and effective monitoring
• Actively track coman budgets and acutal cost to identify variances and engage CFO/CEO for actions

Capex monitoring:

• Drive annual capex planning in partnership with Head of Supply Chain
• Monthly estimates submissions to Sector team
• Lead capex reviews with BU and Sector teams

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Degree in Finance, Chatered Accounant / MBA
• 6-7 years of work experience in planning roles in an FMCG environment
• Strong commercial, analytical capability and interpersonal skills
• Team player with collaborative working and influencing skills
• Understanding of SAP, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint and general systems ability
• Good time management and prioritisation skills.

Application Closing Date: 26th October, 2024.

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