PepsiCo Looking for Architect,AMESA/APAC IT Controls Lead at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Overview

This role is a member of the team responsible for design, governance, implementation and sustainment of the Controls solutions for the IT Enterprise Solutions organization, encompassing all Enterprise Solutions projects, processes and sectors.

As the AMESA/APAC Controls lead for the IT Enterprise Solutions organization, the role’s main objective is successful coordination and delivery of all controls work stream activities for the organization, both Enterprise-wide and in the AMESA and APAC sectors. The role will produce a Controls solutions that meets the business’s risk appetite and is aligned with PepsiCo’s Global Control Standard. This includes collaboration with team members, contributing to deliverables, tracking team progress, performing quality reviews, managing project vendor partners and interacting with business/control SMEs and stakeholders as the Controls solutions are deployed.

The role will also collaborate closely with peer positions in IT Controls, peer IT Groups and within IT Enterprise Solutions projects to drive collaboration, to ensure a consistent global Controls solution template design, and to maximize global leverage. The team will also interact with existing Controller teams to ensure that legacy controls environments are updated to reflect an optimal end-state design, as applicable.

Responsibilities

1. Complete controls and security governance deliverables as part of the IT Enterprise Solutions Controls team

• Integrate into broader IT project agendas
• Represent the controls work stream in IT projects
• Assess processes for risk while defining business requirements for internal controls
• Identify automated or manual controls to mitigate risk
• Review control deliverables for quality and consistency
• Participate in IT Enterprise Solutions Controls team meetings
• Identify risks, mitigation actions and opportunities in controls agenda
• Provide specialist knowledge around existing IT Enterprise Solutions controls environment
• Deliver risk and control matrix and control package deliverables
• Provide input to Global IT Enterprise Solutions Controls Lead for management of project financial budget
• Develop processes to operationalize controls within IT Enterprise Solutions
• Implement the change management action plan for the IT Enterprise Solutions Controls team
• Work with leadership and teams within IT Enterprise Solutions to incorporate controls updates and training needs into the project’s communications strategy Providing Consultation, Executing Actions

2. Align various controls solutions for IT Enterprise Solutions organization with existing IT and sector controls organizations’ strategies to ensure ongoing success

• Design scalable processes and content to support the governance of the controls solutions
• Work with IT Control Governance and key Sector Control leaders to maximize the leverage of Corporate Control investment across the Enterprise Solutions Control portfolio and ensure holistic approach for new controls introduced into the control environment
• Design and implement key and supporting controls under GCS methodology to hand over to IT process and control owners
• Work with Control teams to extend project best practices as required

Making Decisions, Being Informed, Providing Consultation, Executing Actions

3. Communicate aligned controls objectives, priorities, timelines and desired outcomes to support proportional ownership

• Present and align key Sector stakeholders including IT, Sector and Regional Controls teams, Corporate Control, IT Control and Corporate Audit to obtain and integrate feedback
• Provide regular updates (e.g., weekly, monthly) on project status and present summary to IT Enterprise Solutions controls leadership and other stakeholders as required
• At all phases, partner with IT and Controls teams to ensure planned controls solutions are “fit for purpose” for the organization’s needs
• Obtain Global IT Control and Sector Control approval of control package(s) Providing Consultation, Executing Actions

4. Manage internal and external audit relationships to maintain a positive outlook on the progression of IT Enterprise Solutions controls solutions

• Interact with audit teams to communicate the structure and design of IT Enterprise Solutions controls solutions while fielding audit team evidence and information requests
• Work with IT Controls, Sector Control and IT teams to ensure holistic approach is taken to remediate Corporate Audit findings
• Achieve “effective” audit result for controls work stream Providing Consultation, Executing Actions

Qualifications

Years of Experience:

• Bachelors in Business, Accounting, Finance or Information Systems
• 5+ years of control, technology risk and/or finance experience
• Previous Big 4 and/or consulting experience (preferred)
• CISA, CISSP, CIA, PMP or other equivalent certification (preferred)

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of the PepsiCo Global Control Standard (GCS)
• Thorough understanding of SOX regulation requirements and ability to adapt to similar regulations
• Broad understanding of compliance, audit, IT controls, business controls and segregation of duties (SoD) activities
• Working knowledge of basic security & control concepts across enterprise solutions like SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow
• Ability to identify and propose technical solutions to meet automated control requirements
• General understanding of the key process areas within PepsiCo (e.g., Supply Chain, Finance, Go-To-Market, etc.)

Mandatory Non Technical Skills:

• Ability to work collaboratively and proactively in a multi-functional global and matrixed virtual environment
• Excellent and proactive communication skills
• Openness to best practices and new approaches
• Problem solving and intellectually curious with positive and resilient character
• Business understanding and partnering skills with an ability to make difficult trade off decisions
• Previous Big 4 and/or consulting experience (preferred)
• CISA, CISSP, CIA, PMP or other equivalent certification (preferred)
• Strong skills in decision making and problem solving
• Ability to influence at all levels within the organization
• Strong organizational and delegation skills
• Experience working within a global team
• Strong understanding and aptitude for emerging technologies (e.g., RPA, Analytics, etc.)
• Track record of delivery to high standard, respond with precision and accuracy and adhere to tight deadlines (preferred)
• Adept knowledge and understanding of data analytics, including the SAP table hierarchy, extracting table data from SAP and managing data extraction and visualization tools (preferred)
• Strong understanding and hands-on implementation experience with enterprise data analytic tools relating to governance, risk, and compliance such as SAP GRC (preferred)
• Experience working with government regulatory entities to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements (preferred)
• Appreciation for GDPR, data security, retention policies, schedule of authority and other compliance requirements to ensure “to be” process is compliant and monitoring is set up and will be effective (preferred)