Gulf & Levant Commercial Finance Manager

2 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates PepsiCo Full time

**Auto req ID**: 287587BR

**PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.**

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**At PepsiCo Asia Middle East and North Africa, people from different backgrounds and experiences eagerly roll up their sleeves, pitch in and get to work. We share a desire to succeed, and to win We get great satisfaction knowing that our ideas are not only championed, but they are acted upon and brought to life.**

**Our commitment to creating the best consumer products begins with our people.**

Based out of our Dubai office for Middle East and North Africa, you will be the financial planning lead for Nutrition (Quaker and Juice Categories). Your role will be to leverage insight of key business drivers to propose and execute action plans to close forecasted gaps to plan and to enhance business performance. You role will be integral in business critical initiatives. You will liaison with JV Partners/Co-packers and distributors on key financial discussion and alignments. You will also be the point of contact with category and supply chain teams.

**Key accountabilities for the role include**:

- Lead in financial analyses for all key business initiatives and manage expectations of Senior Stakeholders
- Delivery of planning calendar through on-time and quality submission of AOPs, PSP, Rolling Forecasts and MBRs/QBRs.
- Oversight over books close and financial transactions of Quaker UAE entity
- Timely update on Risks/Opportunities impacting business through update of financial forecasts and related matrices
- Improve quality of performance analyses and introduction of new business intelligence reports
- Leverage new systems to enhance productivity and efficiency

**Qualifications/Requirements**:
**Key Skills/Experience Required**:

- Qualified CA or CPA with at least 3-5 years of work experience (preferably from FMCG sector)
- Qualified ACCA or MBA with at least 7 years of work experience (preferably from FMCG sector)
- Minimum FP&A experience of 1-2 years
- Hands-on knowledge on Excel and HFM (very lean team structure)

**Functional Competencies Required**:

- Understand key financial performance metrics (e.g., P&L, Cash Flow, ROIC, ROAE, other key ratios) and associated relationships to evaluate financial strength and influence business decisions
- Understand revenue structure (e.g., pricing, trade margin, discounts); and cost structure (e.g., Cost of Sales, Cost to Serve, S&D, A&M, G&A, investments) to make effective financial & business

recommendations
- Understand product profitability (e.g., brand/packaging features, pricing, costs, capacity, mix, bottler economics, etc.) and their relationship to market needs to make effective financial & business

recommendations
- Understand and perform sensitivity and cause of change analysis for evaluating variations in revenue and cost structures; Analyze and anticipate performance trends and key business drivers to plan, improve or course-correct the business
- Manage efficient, effective, functionally-integrated financial processes
- Provide performance reporting to support business decisions; provide actionable recommendations to management for improving the business
- Develop and lead the planning process across different business functions to generate a consolidated, reconciled Annual Operating Plan
- Multiple stakeholder engagement with experience on handling Region/HQ and senior functional leaders
- Hands-on financial modelling

**Leadership Competencies Required**
- Setting the Agenda (all competencies)
- Taking others Along (all competencies)
- Demonstrates resiliency when presented with significant and unexpected challenges
- Seizes and solves ambiguous and complex challenges while delivering the business strategy

**Critical Experiences**
- Managing multiple stakeholders and networks
- Franchise Governance
- Process streamlining
- Business/commercial fundamentals know-how

Our Commitment is to deliver Sustained Growth through Empowered People acting with Responsibility and Trust.

**Relocation Eligible**: Eligible for Standard Relocation

**Job Type**: Regular



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