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Syngenta
Company Description
As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.
Job Description
Role Purpose
- Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for BA EASA
- Be a trusted partner to the CP Commercial Finance Lead EASA and Finance BP EASA to provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials
- Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes and contribution to regional Continuous Improvement agenda
Accountabilities
How:
- Be a trusted finance business partner, supporting all activities in scope, on recurring and ad hoc finance topics.
- Seamless engaging and interacting with finance communities and stakeholders.
- Add value to organization through providing business insight, understanding the numbers and challenging the status quo.
- Provide finance skillset in project / ad hoc assignments.
- Build relationships across multiple finance functional teams to share and align best practices.
- Develop understanding of Syngenta’s business and interaction between the different business units and functional reporting lines.
What:
- Actuals: Month end closing:
- Analyse monthly sales and function costs, and provide relevant commentaries and insights to finance and business stakeholders.
- Based on discussions with business stakeholders and in collaboration with Accounting-to-Reporting teams, ensure accruals for sales deductions and function cost are properly reflected in reported monthly results.
- Participate in month-end closing processes.
- Financial analysis:
- Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support business decisions, understanding business performance on a monthly / annual basis.
- Leverage technology (SAC) to further develop (SAC stories) and fully utilize available reports to meet the needs of the various business owners, on time, with high quality.
- Full accountability for the analysis and commentaries to business stakeholders for variance analysis of function cost reports.
- Master data management:
- Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting).
- Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
- Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L in scope.
- Provide support and guidance to business managers and function cost owners on achieving budget targets.
- Participate in strategic business planning and business processes by preparing financial budgets and rolling forecasts.
- Business review process: Support the MBR process
- Prepare and collect insightful commentaries for robust reporting and analysis of variances.
- Focus on reliable full year outlooks and risk/opportunity assessments.
- Digital capabilities:
- Contribute to development and use of business intelligence tools, data visualisation and predictive analysis techniques.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Experience & Capabilities
Critical Knowledge
- Bachelor/Master/Business School in Economics or Finance
- Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
- Excel & SAP knowledge are a must, business intelligence systems an advantage
- Understanding of Syngenta business, processes and industry drivers
Critical Experience
- 2+ years in Finance and Controlling is a must.
Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities
- Analytical skills.
- Financial and accounting acumen.
- Communication and presentation skills.
- English is a must, other languages are a plus.
- Ability to prioritise, especially to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently as well as within (cross-) functional teams.
- High focus and energy, with a pragmatic mindset and solution-oriented approach.
Critical success factors & key challenges
- Ability to apply professional knowledge of accounting and financial reporting in supporting the business
- Ability to handle multiple stakeholders, priorities and deadlines
- Working in virtual teams
- Sound professional judgement and effective influencing skills