Global Finance Business Partner

About the job

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. Job Description 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 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: • Direct reports: 3-4 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 accountability 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

Requirements

• Financial analysis
• Business partnering
• Budgeting
• Cost transparency
• Data analysis

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master/MBA in Economics or Finance
• 10-15 years experience in multinational environment

Preferred Technologies

• Financial analysis
• Business partnering
• Budgeting
• Cost transparency
• Data analysis

About the company

At Syngenta Group, 56,000 people transform agriculture worldwide through tailored solutions for farmers and society, making them a leading agricultural technology partner.