Sr Operational Compliance Analyst - Full-time

Description

Senior – Field Operational Compliance-Packaged Beverages

This position is responsible for working with business process and control owners to ensure an effective and efficient internal control environment within Dr Pepper Snapple’s Packaged Beverages Business Unit. This position reports to Manager, Packaged Beverage Operational Compliance.

Join the team at Dr Pepper Snapple Group and make a difference by pursuing everything that you do with the determination that sets us apart from our competitors. Driving for results leads to recognition and personal growth within the company, helping us to achieve our goal to “Be the Best Beverage Business in the Americas”. The success that comes from within each of us is recognized, and creates opportunities for your growth in the organization.

Position Responsibilities
• Monitor the controls environment through compliance reviews, follow-up inquiry and testing, self-assessment reporting and independent inventory observations in order to identify both SOX and operational control issues and process gaps/opportunities. Ensure adherence to policies and procedures and all control activities are implemented, executed and tested as agreed.
• Work with management on remediation plans, through use of excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, to close identified gaps and maintain/sustain controls emphasis in respective area by addressing common opportunities with management.
• Develop and/or enhance internal control environment to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness, better safeguard company assets and improve reliability and quality of financial reporting.
• Recommend and implement manual and system process improvements, which result in greater process efficiencies, effectiveness and sustainability. Implement and/or improve operational controls and standard operating procedures to better safeguard company assets, improve operational efficiency and enhance the quality of financial reporting. Review and understand business processes and controls and assist in analyzing to enhance the current control environment.
• Participate on various policies and procedures projects in order to facilitate the development and documentation of standardized policies and procedures that promote operational efficiency, operational effectiveness and enhance the control environment.
• Liaison with various departments/project teams including Sales Operations, IT, Apacheta, and Route Settlement to recommend and implement enhanced system processing, system reporting and utilize system configurable controls.
• Collaborate with Corporate Audit, SOX PMO and external auditors to coordinate and facilitate audit requests for planned audit engagements, SOX testing and external audit financial audit testing.
• Work closely with SOX PMO, Corporate Audit and external auditors for synergies and coordination of on-going improvement to the controls framework and SOX testing programs.
• Assist in the monitoring for indicators of fraud and performance of appropriate investigative audits.
• Stay abreast of best practices and provide conduit for introducing those practices to the company.
• Utilize strong interpersonal and leadership skills – ability to work closely with people at all levels of the organization, including training business partners on new controls, policies and procedures, etc and facilitate the implementation of corrective action
• Demonstrate initiative, accepts responsibility/accountability and drives for results through effectively identifying and driving problem solving opportunities
• Apply analytical and problem solving skills - defining problems, collecting relevant data, establishing facts, drawing valid conclusions, and recommending improvement/corrective actions
• Work independently and within a team environment, build strong relationships and maintain rapport with cross-functional Business Unit and Corporate teams.
• Demonstrate knowledge of sound internal control principles along with the ability to provide solutions to control issues, and experience leading process redesign/process documentation projects

Total Rewards
We take great pride in offering our people benefits that are competitive. We appreciate hard work, innovative ideas and unending passion, which is why we provide a comprehensive set of benefits and options designed to fit the unique lifestyles of our employees from day one based on eligibility requirements.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Degree in Business (i.e. Accounting, Finance, Business Management/Administration, etc)
• 3 years’ work experience in internal/operational controls and/or relevant industry experience (beverage, transport/logistics, etc.)
• Willing to travel within US (approx. 50-75% travel) Mostly West Coast and other areas as assigned.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (NYS E: DPS) is the leading producer of flavored beverages in North America and the Caribbean. Our success is fueled by more than 50 brands that are synonymous with refreshment, fun and flavor. We have 6 of the top 10 non-cola soft drinks, and 11 of our 14 leading brands are No. 1 in their flavor categories. In addition to our flagship Dr Pepper and Snapple brands, our portfolio includes Sunkist soda, 7UP, A&W, Canada Dry, Crush, Mott's, Squirt, Hawaiian Punch, Penafiel, Clamato, Schweppes, Rose's and Mr & Mrs T mixers.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Dr Pepper Snapple Group recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V