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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Purchase, New York, Us

Managed the accounting, consolidation and reporting of pension and post-retirement benefit obligations, implementation of certain accounting standards, governance over Audit Committee and Disclosure Committee reporting, and policies to ensure sustainable system of controls and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.• Led initiative to adopt ASC 842 (Leases) and adoption of ASU 2017-07 (Retirement Benefits).• Evaluated and reported on PepsiCo’s overall SOX compliance program, including internal controls policies and procedures, compliance evaluations and reporting. • Oversaw the accounting, consolidation and timely reporting of pension and postretirement defined benefit and defined contribution plans, including SEC and other government filings.

Purchase, New York, Us

Responsible for the accounting and oversight of marketplace spending activities in the North American Beverage business. Marketplace spending includes customer trade activities, contract management, deduction processing, franchise bottler funding and advertising, marketing and cooperative media spending.• Managed team of 90 people in the accounting, period closing and reporting of Marketplace Spending activities.• Partnered with Sales and Marketing functions to establish efficient and well controlled processes supporting these critical operational areas of the business.• Led the centralization of accounting and oversight responsibilities and the subsequent transition of certain activities to a third-party outsource provider resulting in significant productivity realization.• Successfully implemented an integrated trade promotion management system for trade forecasting, pricing and accrual management activities resulting in increased accuracy and improved controls.

Purchase, New York, Us

Led the Pepsi-Cola North America implementation and integration of SAP and the subsequent establishment of the the Finance Capability and Optimization team to support the ongoing efficiency and productivity of the new system.• Managed team of 60 full-time resources, including approximately 30 contractors.• Oversaw all aspects of the implementation including staffing, requirements gathering, development, testing, deployment, readiness, go-live and hyper-care for all impacted areas. • Developed and executed operating model including vision, mission, objectives, approach and staffing plans.• Established governance model to support effective risk management and escalation, and efficient decision making and progress reporting.

Purchase, New York, Us

Provided significant thought leadership to the development and global implementation of policies and processes to address Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements as well as the ongoing monitoring and reporting of controls across international and domestic locations.• Co-led the creation of an industry-leading control standard based on the COSO framework.• Redesigned the internal audit methodology to assess compliance with the new control standard and developed an innovative five-level control maturity model to evaluate the strength of the system of controls.

Purchase, New York, Us

Managed the preparation and analysis of quarterly and annual SEC filings including Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and the Annual Report.• Delivered productivity by improving processes and automating data collection and analytics processes resulting in seven-day process acceleration.• Led process to ensure compliance and timely filings associated with large transactions, including the spin-off of company-owned bottling operations and merger of The Quaker Oats Company.

Purchase, New York, Us

Manager, General Accounting | Budget Supervisor | Controller Staff and Special Project Accountant

London, Gb