Overview The Commercial Finance Associate Manager is a key member of the Commercial Finance team and is responsible for supporting the Quaker Portfolio within the Walmart and Metro Retail Sales Teams. In this role, you will be responsible for providing thought & financial leadership, ensuring that balanced growth and profitability strategies are planned and achieved. What you can expect from us: Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits designed to fit your unique needs. A dynamic and inclusive culture that promotes you to bring your whole-self to work. Inspiring positive change for people and the planet with sustainability goals. A supportive team that will encourage your professional growth and development. Responsibilities What you’ll be working on: Responsible for identifying any fluctuations between the plan/forecast and actual sales trends. Communicate any concerns and develop solutions for driving sales or for modifying/adjusting activities to variations from the plan. Provide insight and analysis into drivers of change for key metrics: Vol, Gross Sales $, Trade, DNP, Trade Rate, Margin Contribution and Profitability versus prior year, plan, and forecast by customer and product. Manage tight control and governance of Trade Spend programs with the customer team and ensure that ROI targets and funding principles are met. Ensure deduction balance and post audits are managed within the current targets. Actively dispute and help resolve all invalid deductions/post audits with the customer team. Provide insight and analytics that help the DOS/KAM’s on customer team develop robust planning procedures (CAPS, CDA negotiations) that deliver against AOP metrics, and accurate quarterly business forecasts. Ensure the customer team utilizes the Pricing Council process to review "pre" & "post" promotional event analysis and highlight areas of opportunity. Coach, support and develop team members. This includes Deduction analysts and finance analysts on the Commercial Finance team (the latter group resides in Mexico at the global capability center). Providing support for key business deliverables providing clear guidance to sales team- all focused on delivering profitable growth. Support the successful transition to SAP TPM, which will be Quaker Canada’s trade management system of the future, as well as the entire suite of new reporting tools being rolled out as part of PEP’s PGT journey. This includes, but is not limited to, adherence to financial processes to deliver mandated KPIs associated with trade management within the new system. Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Business, CMA or MBA preferred 5 – 8 years of financial analytical and planning experience Advanced Excel, Power BI, and SAP AFO capabilities Strong financial modeling skills. Strong analytical, problem solving and collaboration skills Experience implementing new systems and processes Ability to communicate effectively Confidence in navigating a fluid environment with competing deliverables Why work at PepsiCo At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day. A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s welcome. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow your skills for the future. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact on people and the planet. Join us. Dare for Better.