CP Production Finance Business Partner

As a CP Production Finance Business Partner, you will provide finance expertise and advice to the businesses, supporting decision-making and driving performance. You will participate in the development and implementation of the relevant operational plans to ensure clarity of the financial impact. Through appropriate balance of short, medium, and long-term financial planning and monitoring, drive effective and efficient delivery of business goals with sound financial analysis and advice. You will provide site management with sound risk-based analysis on potential impacts, implications and propose potential ways to mitigate risks and also drive productivity and simplification in finance and related business processes for the financial process on site.

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how this role will help:

• Ensure seamless engagement and interaction with commercial, corporate and finance communities and stakeholders
• Key member of the site leadership team, co-owning & co-creating the strategy as well as providing operational support
• Act as a trusted finance business partner, supporting the site leadership and other stakeholders within scope on recurring and ad hoc finance topics
• Provide constructive challenge to the site manager and rest of the leadership team
• Influence and challenge to support the drive for productivity gains across the organization through process and reporting improvement/alignment
• Understand the E2E process of the site in scope
• Lead financial processes across P&L and balance sheet scope for the FF&P Sites (manufacturing costs/capitalization, production efficiencies, Capex, fixed assets etc.) connecting with various stakeholders:
  • Drive & critically challenge the financial result of the production site in scope
  • Drive and coordinate the product costing and budget preparation process for the site in scope. Sufficient understanding of the costing to simulate the impact of changes
  • Latest Outlook and Risks & Opportunities management
  • Lead the annual budget preparation process for the scope
  • Independently prepare and evaluate business cases for capital investments

Syngenta Group is one of the world’s biggest agricultural technology companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. With more than 59,000 employees, operating in more than 100 countries, the company strives to transform food production through Regenerative Agriculture - a science-driven, technology-enabled approach to improve soil, deliver high productivity and high-quality food, help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity. Syngenta Group, which is registered in Shanghai, China, and has its management headquarters in Switzerland, draws strength from its four business units: Syngenta Crop Protection, headquartered in Switzerland; Syngenta Seeds, headquartered in the United States; ADAMA®, headquartered in Israel; and Syngenta Group China. Together, these businesses provide industry-leading ways to serve customers around the world.

At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves. 

You will be a great fit if you have:

• BSc/MSc degree or equivalent qualification
• 5-8 years of experience in different areas of business finance and controlling
• Wide knowledge of finance (financial analysis, investment analysis, valuation analysis, risk management, budgeting / planning)
• Sound knowledge of product costing principles
• Best practices for the development of annual budgets, latest estimates and financial planning
• Effective finance management of a site operation
• High focus and energy with a pragmatic mind set and solution-oriented approach
• Ability to interact and influence at different levels within the organization
• Strong leadership, influencing, teamwork skills
• Fluent English language knowledge

Our efforts to become a really good place to work:

• Dynamic and international team with great atmosphere
• Possibilities to learn and grow
• High quality office environment
• Possibility of working from home 

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.