Work with sales team to optimize trade spend, trade productivity, and define tactics to deliver net revenue plan and share opportunities. Assist in customer growth summits, joint business planning, and periodic business reviews.

Combine knowledge, leadership, and collaboration to lead the full forecasting process including providing periodic forecast guidance, consolidation of lines of business, and reporting to senior leadership. Provide support to the broader national and regional field teams. Includes ad hoc analysis, targeting, and tracking of business performance.

Provide cross functional leadership and support in the development of capacity and optimization projects within the Frito-Lay manufacturing, packaging, and warehouse network. Collaborate with Supply Chain to develop a comprehensive strategy that provides sufficient capacity while delivering optimal benefits to the organization through the 5 year Strategic Plan horizon. Manage the Strategic Plan capacity and optimization pipeline and associated CAPEX forecast for the Doritos, Tostitos, Santitas, Fritos, and Smartfood Popcorn platforms. Support the development and alignment of demand forecast through Revenue Management, Sales, and Marketing partners to ensure timely investments are made. Develop economics (DCF, IRR, NPV, ROI, etc.) across growth and optimization solutions including Make vs Buy, and Boost vs New Line analysis.

Sr. Manager >>Provide finance support to Ops leadership and global project teams leading the PepsiCo Digital Value Chain transformation. Includes planning, forecasting, and variance analysis. Identify and communicate performance results, risks and opportunities, and provide insights to support strategic and trade-off decisions. Work cross functionally through Ops, IT, and sectors/ business units to develop 5 year strategy plans and evaluate/ develop investment business cases.Act as FP&A manager for Global Operations and also key finance manager for four key areas within global operations.Manager >> As FP&A manager, work across all teams within Global Operations to develop the AOP, forecasts and reporting variances. Develop and manage all sector allocations for horizontal billings. Provide financial analyses and management/tracking to achieve targeted savings in the various Smart Spend cost categories. The scope of Global Operations include: Global Productivity, Go-To-Market, Supply Chain Strategy, Environmental Health & Safety, Quality Control, Environmental Sustainability, Integrated Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Lean Six Sigma, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Engineering.As finance manager, act as key finance contact for Integrated Supply Chain Planning, Environmental Health & Safety, Environmental Sustainability, and Quality Control. Support the PepsiCo Strategic Plan process and the overall PepsiCo Productivity agenda through financial assessments and consolidations; Sector integration and acceleration of initiatives and best practices. Provide overall cost center management including financial project tracking and preparation of forecasts and AOP.

Support International sector FP&A teams’ SBP, AOP and forecasting cycles by liaising between International and Corporate FP&A teams, developing and coordinating global planning calendars, and providing variance and cause-of-change analysis. Manage the Hyperion planning and reporting system for North America and International sectors through forex rate alignment, sector input validation, global consolidated reporting, and partnering with IT teams on system enhancements projects. As an integral team member, delivered first unified and consolidated PepsiCo global reporting system. Migrated over $2.3B in data from the legacy cubes affecting over 80 reporting entities and 30+ foreign currencies; delivered migration 8 weeks faster than third party quote. Manage budgets through forecast and planning cycles, and provide journal entries to accounting to ensure accurate reporting.

Support CIO Leadership, Center Investments, Global HR Operations, and QTG investment portfolios. Additional responsibilities include capital spend analysis and guidance, and SOX controls including quarterly CIP Impairment Review.Above expanded on prior role responsibilities below.

Support $200MM portfolio including BIS Services (IT) and Global Operations (Infrastructure) by providing accurate and relevant accounting, variance analysis, and reporting on period and quarterly close schedules.Responsibilities include: preparing and processing journal entries and accruals, providing variance explanations on Actuals vs. Forecast and Actuals vs. AOP each close period, preparing pre-close and post-close decks for PepsiCo North America IT, and performing ad-hoc analysis and reporting as needed. Work closely with finance members and project managers providing accounting treatment guidance and support to ensure accurate forecasts and period actuals.

Provided general accounting support in various areas of the business.Accounting tasks included GL entries, customer billings, A/R collections and postings, managed A/P, bank deposits, bank reconciliations, state tax projections and compliance reporting, employee expense reimbursement reconciliations, and P&L and Balance Sheet analysis and reporting.Created a uniform employee travel policy and implemented Concur Solutions to streamline employee travel planning and expense reporting. Completed conversion of company payroll from an internal process to third party managed.

Prepared state and federal tax returns for individual and small businesses. Created Trial Balances, P&Ls, and Balance Sheets from source documents.

Prepared federal tax returns for real estate clients including some requiring conversion calculations from Chinese Yen to US Dollar.

Prepared state and federal tax returns for corporate and individual clients.