Company Description
At the Syngenta Group, our 56,000 people across more than 90 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet – making us the world's most local agricultural technology and innovation partner.
Role purpose
Finance Business Partner providing operational and strategic decision support for G&A Functions. Focused on enabling productivity through cost transparency, efficiency and savings through anticipation of internal and external business challenges.
Accountabilities
- Global Finance Business Partnering for G&A functions
- Direct financial support to Global G&A Function Leadership in-order to support key business decisions and validate results against KPI's
- Generate business insight through data and financial analysis and provide recommendations to drive business outcomes
- To help develop, design and execute functional strategies from a Finance perspective
- To advise, guide and influence functional leads, senior managers and all kind of stakeholders within function on Finance subjects such as target setting, budgeting, business cases and projects and key trade-off decision
- Clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and potential implications
- Partnering with business stakeholders for monthly/YTD performance review. Creating Outlooks for year and ensuring delivery of all departmental objectives
- Support global finance transformation, digitalization projects, Ad hoc analysis, projects and requests as necessary to enable decision support
- Ensure high quality month end closing activities: cost centre review, variance analysis, focussing on understanding root cause and driving actionable recommendations
- Work closely with Finance Teams in Regions, Finance Operations in Centres and in HQ
- Establish and drive adoption of best practices to improve processes/services to business / stakeholders
Accountabilities
- Global Finance Business Partnering for G&A functions
- Direct financial support to Global G&A Function Leadership in-order to support key business decisions and validate results against KPI's
- Generate business insight through data and financial analysis and provide recommendations to drive business outcomes
- To help develop, design and execute functional strategies from a Finance perspective
- To advise, guide and influence functional leads, senior managers and all kind of stakeholders within function on Finance subjects such as target setting, budgeting, business cases and projects and key trade-off decision
- Clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and potential implications
- Partnering with business stakeholders for monthly/YTD performance review. Creating Outlooks for year and ensuring delivery of all departmental objectives
- Support global finance transformation, digitalization projects, Ad hoc analysis, projects and requests as necessary to enable decision support
- Ensure high quality month end closing activities: cost centre review, variance analysis, focussing on understanding root cause and driving actionable recommendations
- Work closely with Finance Teams in Regions, Finance Operations in Centres and in HQ
- Establish and drive adoption of best practices to improve processes/services to business / stakeholders
Planning Cycle
- Support the budgeting / latest outlook (LO) process
- Support business stakeholders in the preparation of the Budget / LO through analysis and guidance
- Support and work in coordination with Finance Lead and/or Finance Head to ensure full alignment with Function Strategy
- Support the scenario planning and target setting process
People:
Qualifications
Critical success factors & key challenges
- Ability to work cross functionally and build partnering relationship with different business, finance and functional stakeholders across global and regions
- Attention to details without losing sight of the bigger picture
- Customer centric
- Strong leadership skills
- Team player
- Proactive planner – Strong accountabilty and sense of urgency around timelines
- Adaptable and flexible
- Technology awareness: Understands emerging technology platforms and services across industries, bringing innovation and taking risks in pursuit of valuable digital opportunities
Critical Knowledge / Capabilities
- Bachelor/Master/MBA in Economics or Finance
- Holds professional Finance qualification i.e. CA, ICWA or equivalent will add advantage.
- Minimum 10 -15 years of experience in multinational environment / FP&A
- Controlling experience (Cost Analysis, Variance Analysis, MIS, P&L reporting and management)
- Experience in the understanding and effective communication of financial results to non-finance stakeholders
- Understanding of reporting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
- Sound understanding of key financial concepts, solid theoretical background in finance and accounting and reporting
- Ability to effectively analyse numbers, present conclusions and recommendations in a clear way
- Ability to influence finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Ability to work under pressure while keeping high quality of output
- Good at people management, networking and collaboration skill
- Problem solving to deliver unique or new solutions
- Familiarity working in an international environment in a complex matrix organization
- Operates independently with limited supervision in a complex environment
Critical Knowledge / Experience Required For The Job
- Ability to deliver against objectives, deadlines.
- Ability to proactively work in a cross functional environment
- Good working knowledge of Financial Accounting and Management Reporting systems (e.g. SAP , EBI / BW, SBFC, SAC) or should be a quick learner to learn the technology and tools used by Syngenta
- Experience with FP&A tool (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Smartsheet) is an added advantage
