SE P&S Finance BP Analyst

At Syngenta our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. To support this mission Syngentas AMEA P&S Finance team is seeking a SE P&S Finance BP Analyst in Pune.

• 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 business 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 Syngentas business and interaction between the different business units and functional reporting lines

Accountabilities:

Actuals: Month end closing :

• Analyze monthly production variances internal and external seeds production spend site COGP capital investments and provide relevant commentaries and insights to finance and business stakeholders.
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• Based on discussions with business stakeholders and in collaboration with Accounting-to-Reporting teams ensure production spend variances and accruals 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 (SAC Power BI) 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 (or relevant scope)

Master data management :

• Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost center structure activity rates delegation of authorities headcount reporting)

Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes :

• Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for production area in scope
• Provide support and guidance to production 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 site monthly review process
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• 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 visualization and predictive analysis techniques

Qualifications :

Required: 

• 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 (Power BI SAC Qlik)
• Understanding of Syngenta business processes and industry drivers
• 3 years in Finance and Controlling is a must. Production controlling experience is an advantage

Desired:

• Analytical skills
• Financial and accounting acumen
• Communication and presentation skills
• English 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

Additional Information :

What we offer:

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time