Seeds Senior Finance Business Partner

Role Purpose 

• Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities with focus on the top-line for Seeds Commercial Unit in Ukraine
• Be a trusted partner to Commercial Finance Lead and key business stakeholders
• Provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials and support solid business decisions
• Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes

Accountabilities

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 business stakeholders
• Add value to organization through providing business insight, understanding the numbers, rational behind 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 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 are properly reflected in reported monthly results
  • Participate in month-end closing processes, including lock meetings
     

• Financial analysis:
  • Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support business decisions, understanding business performance on a monthly / annual basis
  • Leverage technology to further develop 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

• Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
  • Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L area in scope
  • Provide support and guidance to business managers on achieving budget targets
  • Participate in strategic business planning and business processes by preparing financial budgets and rolling forecasts
     
• Business review process:
  • Support the BPR process
  • 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
  • Familiarize business stakeholders with business intelligence tools and dashboards
  • Act as key super user of Local and Global systems

• Master Degree in Economics, Accounting or Finance
• At least 5 years in Finance planning and analysis is a must
• Previous experience in commercial finance will be considered as advantage
• Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Strong knowledge of Excel, preferably good knowledge of Power BI
• Understanding of Agricultural business, processes and industry drivers will be considered as advantage
• Finance business partnering mindset
• At least Upper Intermediate level of English