Strategic Finance Associate Analyst

Overview

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT

At Pepsi Co, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities.

At the heart of Pepsi Co are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities.

No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, Pepsi Co offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next.

Finance Analysts at Pepsi Co are challenged to think both strategically and analytically to solve critical business problems. Pepsi Co Finance partners have a seat at the table and a strong voice in the conversation across the company. Finance professionals rotate through different teams over the course of their careers in order to develop well-rounded technical and functional skills. All roles are highly cross-functional and require strong influencing skills.

All finance roles are grounded in the following capability areas:

• Data‑Anchored Problem Solving – Using data, metrics, and structured analysis to define problems, assess trade‑offs, and enable informed decision-making.
• Finance Culture & Capability Building – Fostering financial acumen, continuous learning, and strong ways of working while actively developing individual and team capabilities.
• Finance Through Digitalization – Applying technology, digital tools, and process improvements to deliver efficient, accurate, and scalable outcomes.
• Strategic Business Partnering – Partnering with stakeholders to understand business priorities, balance competing demands, and deliver insights that drive value.

Pepsi Co Finance is made up of the following functional areas across all divisions:

• Brand and Innovation Finance builds annual and long‑term strategic brand plans, prepares the business case for innovation and manages marketing budgets across all brands. Associates partner with Marketing and other cross‑functional teams to build plans, allocate resources and performance manage against KPIs.
• Financial Planning manages sector and corporate financial performance through action‑oriented analytical insights and traditional financial tools. FP&A associates focus on the development of monthly forecasts, the annual operating plan, and the three‑year strategic plan. FP&A partners with senior management to prepare presentations for the Executive Committee and Wall Street.
• National Account/Customer Finance partners with the Sales organization to develop key customer strategies and manage performance. Associates develop customers’ annual operating plans, quarterly business plans, and period forecasts, analyze promotional activity and recommend trade spend allocation.
• Revenue Management sets pricing and package architecture strategy and advises customer portfolio strategy. Revenue Management Associates assess consumer and category trends, the customer landscape and the competitive environment to develop these recommendations.
• Food service Finance manages Pepsi Co’s on‑premise business, which is comprised of…