Operational Accounting Analyst

PepsiCo • Purchase, NY

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About The Position

The Analyst, NCDA Trade Accounting, supports the accurate accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and control of National Customer Development Agreement (NCDA) trade activity, including trade assets and liabilities. The role helps maintain an effective and efficient control environment by creating and maintaining accruals, validating customer payments and billings, processing journal entries, and completing balance sheet reconciliations. It also supports audit requests and works with field Finance, business contacts, PGT, and system-support teams to address accounting, forecast, system, data, and aged-activity issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• CPA.
• At least 2 years of experience.
• SAP experience.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Superior communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced matrix organization.
• Ability to adapt quickly and maintain flexibility with regard to ad hoc projects, revisions to areas of responsibility, and organizational change.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4 or comparable financial systems.
• Experience with CAS TPM, SAP TPM, or comparable trade-promotion systems.
• Experience with trade accruals, customer funding, balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, or audit support.
• Strong desire to learn, take on new challenges, and develop broader trade-accounting expertise.
• Limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Public accounting experience with a Big 4 firm is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain NCDA trade accruals in CAS TPM and SAP TPM, ensuring amounts are complete, accurate, supported, and recorded in the appropriate accounting period.
• Review and analyze accruals for risk and opportunity, unusual or aged activity, and potential accounting exposure; prepare supporting analysis and escalate significant items.
• Partner with field Finance and business contacts to validate accrual forecasts and investigate significant differences among forecasted, accrued, billed, paid, and settled amounts.
• Validate customer payments and billings against approved programs, supporting documentation, and recorded accruals; research discrepancies and coordinate resolution.
• Process journal entries in SAP S/4 with complete support, appropriate approvals, correct account coding, and proper period recognition.
• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations for assigned NCDA trade assets and liabilities; investigate reconciling items, document root causes, and drive timely resolution.
• Conduct periodic outreach to business and processing contacts to resolve and clear aged, unsupported, or outstanding activity.
• Work with PGT and system-support teams to investigate and resolve system or data issues, including product hierarchy and overlapping activity.
• Participate in preparing internal and external audit requests by providing schedules, documentation, and transaction support.
• Complete ad hoc management requests and support opportunities to simplify, standardize, and strengthen NCDA trade-accounting processes and controls.

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus with an eligibility target payout of 5% of annual salary, paid annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, health, and dependent care reimbursement accounts, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Accident, group legal, and life insurance, subject to elections and eligibility.
• Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level