Role Purpose
- Responsible for Egypt IFRS and Statutory, Treasury management, audits (F/S & Taxation)
- A high-impact Role combines Business partnering, Operations and Country TFCM responsibilities
- Member of Egypt Leadership Team
- Delivers a key service through a team and leads complex and significant tasks and projects of regional or global scope
- Member of Board of Director
Accountabilities
- Leading, developing and engaging Egypt Finance Team
- Manage all financial aspects of the commercial operations including actuals, budget and forecast
- Communicate financial and accounting information and trends to the Commercial team to ensure that real-time business decisions can be made based on sound financial data
- Financial reporting and controlling in accordance with IFRS and group standards, statutory reporting (IFRS translation)
- Liaising and coordinating with external and internal audit
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, especially for tax and statutory accounts purposes.
- Liquidity management
- Intercompany-Coordination and support of Group controlling in internal & external reporting
- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
- Act as Egypt TFCM, interacts with customers.
Syngenta Role Profile
Critical Success Factors & Key Challenges
- Required to interpret internal or external business issues and recommend solutions/best practices on a regular basis
- Ensure full compliance of TFCM processes as implemented (incl. SOX)
- Meet all reporting deadlines in respect of the company and local fiscal and audit requirements
- Good communication competence both within the country and with customers to deliver high quality TFCM data / information / support
- Ensure that tax transactions are meeting the local tax requirments to reduce the tax burden
Knowledge, Experience & Capabilities
Critical experience
- 12 - 15 years professional experience and at least 2 years in similar position.
- Understanding and effective communication of TFCM policies and procedures to non-financial staff
- Good working knowledge of the local market environment
- Good understanding of Microsoft office products
- Familiar with working in a complex matrix and international environment
- Accounting Qualification
Critical knowledge
- Thorough understanding of financial statements and key ratios, and their meanings to creditworthiness of customers
- Understanding of risk mitigation tools in the country
- Knowledge of the country’s economics, Syngenta’s customer base, and the general business environment
- Good knowledge of the company’s ERP systems, ability to manage the required steps for an effective credit management.
Critical leadership capabilities
- Confident ability to operate with little supervision
- Process driven, with great organizational skills
- Know the business / is a professional
- Excellent communication skills
- Good command of English/Arabic languages
- Achieve goals
- Be decisive
- Develop yourself
- Promote teamwork
- Build trust
- Lead change
- Persistence
