Payroll Hourly Associate Analyst

r foundation is built on a strong control environment. Our empowered teams collaborate to provide the best service and solutions for our stakeholders, with a mindset focused on continuous transformation by leveraging the latest advances in processes and technology.

PepsiCo's Payroll team is part of Payment Services within GBS Control. We provide excellent payroll services to North America and Canada, keeping our workforce focused on delivering our great products to consumers. Our GBS Control Payroll Team is a passionate group of experts dedicated to providing quality service, leadership and maintaining PepsiCo's high customer satisfaction. The Payroll Hourly Associate Analyst is a professional with applicable knowledge and skill to support PepsiCo's workforce management processes and Field HR payroll admins.

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally with a variety of teams to deliver projects and process enhancements

• Validate weekly Kronos files feed accurately and completely into SAP ensuring all sites have accounted for their populations - Make decisions, execute action

• Represent GBS Control on workforce management projects within North America- Make decisions, inform others, consult

• Ensure established system and process best practices and harmonization efforts are maintained - Make decisions, inform others

• Technical liaison for North America between PepsiCo IT, Global Workforce Management Support, Division change leads, and BPO, Alight - Make decisions, Consult and inform others

• Own Key and SOX operational controls - Execute Actions, Inform others

• Own critical Kronos Non-IT technical processes: biweekly snapshot, shift differential tables, IDM approvals; acquisition setup; UAT approvals - make decisions, inform others, consult

• Create training materials reflective of PepsiCo's use of the system and deliver training to large user populations - execute actions, make decisions, inform others

ENABLING Capabilities DEFINED

• Our Finance Associates utilize their extensive financial and analytical skills in order to provide the financial expertise and recommendations that enable and allow the most effective decision-making within our business through strategic business partnering, providing financial insights and analytics and utilizing cutting edge technologies that produce business value.

Strategic Business Partnering:

• Ability to partner with business leaders to drive long-term strategy

• Demonstrates understanding of financial, commercial and operational business drivers

• Understands sources of sustainable competitive advantage

• Builds trust with business partners and demonstrates the ability to influence outside of direct reporting line and across functions

• Can assess trade-offs and weigh qualitative and quantitative factors in decision-making

• Defines success metrics and guardrails

Indicators for More Senior Roles

• Demonstrates enterprise lens and external mindset when approaching problems

• Ability to appropriately assess risk

Insights and Analytics

• Ability to analyze and consolidate data from multiple sources

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of what drives revenue, profit and cash flow and understands relationships between financial statements

• Can glean insights from data and drive action based on those insights

• Demonstrates the ability to simplify complex concepts and communicate in a digestible way

• Shows flexibility in leveraging different approaches to analyzing problems

• Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and ability to integrate disparate sources of information

• Incorporates use of scenario analysis, predictive modeling or other techniques to understand the implications of different decision paths

Indicators for More Senior Roles

• Advocates for and embraces the use of new tools and techniques

• Advances the organization's overall financial literacy and empowers self-service for lower value-added tasks

Digital:

• Ability and mindset to interact with technology that produces business value

• Has an informed opinion on digital trends, including fluency with specific digital technologies

• Expresses the motivation and curiosity to learn new concepts

• Demonstrates subject matter expertise in digital tools/technologies (role specific)

• Seeks opportunities to strengthen digital culture through collaborating and sharing knowledge

• Shows flexibility and adaptability in managing new concepts, ideas, technologies

Indicators for More Senior Roles

• Leverages digital technology in a contextually informed manner (i.e., with sensitivity to business context, strategy organizational needs, culture, etc.)

• Makes the right tradeoffs to deliver ROI from digital investments

• Advocates for digital transformation with a holistic leadership approach (e.g., prioritizing investment, incentivizing change behaviors, modeling, etc.)

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $56,900 - $95,300 based on a full-time schedule.

• Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary.

• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.

• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Kronos system and the SAP integration

• Ability to exercise sound independent judgment and make decisions autonomously

• Effectively communicates and provides insights to cross functional teams

• BPO/vendor management including escalations, continuous improvement and SLA adherence

• Define and analyze change requests for Kronos configuration ensuring harmonization, policy compliance and FLSA are protected

• Analyze error root cause, identify trends and translate to remediation while providing an executive summary to leadership

• Understand the control environment and identify deficiencies

• Experience working in a Shared Service environment with cross functional/divisional stake holders

• Working knowledge of payroll transactions and configuration (e.g. average rate of pay calculation, SAP data flows)

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or Kronos system certification

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business degree

• Experience working with a Third-Party service provider

• HCM SAP Payroll experience

• Communication proficiency

• Personal effectiveness, credibility, ethical conduct

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

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