Control & Reporting Manager – Internal Control

Responsibilities

Global Control Standards

• Partner with all functions to perform Risk Assessment on timely basis (at least once a year)
  
  

for regular day to day business- and on spot when new process or project is introduced.

• Ensure KC are designed effectively to cover the identified risks.
• Monitor the execution of Key Controls for each function circa on quarterly basis and report
  
  

results to Audit Committee as well as recommend remediation action.

• Support in testing internal control related to systems with PwC and IBM.
• Participate in ensuring CE is tested at least once a year and ensure remediation actions are
  
  

in place.

• Ensure Process Owners and Control Owners have clear understanding of PepsiCo's Global
  
  

Control Standard.

Enterprise Risk Management

• Leading on the Enterprise Risk Management agenda including risk identification with the
  
  

risk owners and leadership team.

• Managing the annual risk survey and engagement with the corporate ERM team.
• Reporting and monitoring the identified and potential enterprise risks.
  
  

Audit & Compliance

• Ensure business compliance with Statutory, Legal and Taxation requirements, PepsiCo
  
  

corporate and local business policies & procedures, and ethical business practices.

• Perform walkthroughs for all cycles across North Africa BU to ensure completeness, identify
  
  

any process gap and enhance & optimize process. Share the results with the GM and BU

Controller.

• Maintain updated policies & procedures and SoA.
• Perform sudden audits & physical counts for all locations.
• Handling the communication and requirements from Corporate Audit team as well as
  
  

remediation plans identified during the audits.

Standardization and Simplification

• Work with all functions within the Company to analyze and identify process improvement
  
  

opportunities in related business cycles.

• Ensure quarterly Self-testing is performed timely as per sector calendar and arrange with
  
  

control owners across the BU and submit test results to sector.

• Benchmark audit findings in other markets and proactively discuss audit findings with
  
  

process owners’ corrective action if need be.

• Communicate the results of the GCS testing to the Sector IC COE along with the root causes
  
  

of identified deficiencies and remediation plans.

• Present audit findings, business process improvements and the related business impact in a
  
  

clear and concise manner during the audit closing meeting with respective functions.

Compliance and Ethics

• Participate in Speak investigation in the BU recommend action when it comes to control
  
  

process improvement.

• Work closely with C&E team to monitor the actions identified implementation across the
  
  

BUs.

• Review status update and investigation results with Sector/BU CEC.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 -12 years of experience in Finance (preferably multinational FMCG).
• Big 4 experience is a plus.
• Preferably a CPA Holder.
• Bachelor’s degree in any relevant discipline.
• Fluency in both spoken & written English & Arabic language is required.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.