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Closing: May 2, 2024
12 days remainingPublished: Apr 18, 2024 (2 days ago)
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Role Purpose
- Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for Business Area East and Southern Africa.
- 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.
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
Responsibilities
Role Purpose
- Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for Business Area East and Southern Africa.
- 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.
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
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:
- Analyze 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.
- Analyze monthly sales and function costs, and provide relevant commentaries and insights to finance and business stakeholders.
- 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.
- Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support business decisions, understanding business performance on a monthly / annual basis.
- Master data management:
- Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost center structure, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting).
- Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost center 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.
- Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L in scope.
- 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.
- Support the MBR process
- Digital Capabilities:
- Contribute to development and use of business intelligence tools, data visualization and predictive analysis techniques.
- Contribute to development and use of business intelligence tools, data visualization and predictive analysis techniques.
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