CP Production Finance Lead Europe

As a CP Production Finance Lead Europe you will actively contribute to the development and implementation of regional strategic plans, ensuring clarity on financial impacts and providing support for business case evaluations. You will drive effective and efficient delivery of business goals through balanced short, medium, and long-term financial planning and monitoring, while facilitating trade-off decisions that consider impacts both within and beyond the direct scope. Key responsibilities include overseeing the delivery of budgets, forecasts, and standard costing, as well as providing management with risk-based analyses on potential impacts and mitigation strategies. 

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 P&S Europe FF&P (Formulation, Fill & Pack) leadership team, co-owning & co-creating the strategy
• Providing constructive challenge to the CP FF&P Head Europe and the rest of the leadership team
• Lead financial processes across P&L and balance sheet scope for the entire Europe FF&P function connecting with various stakeholders:
  • Drive trade-off decisions taking account of impacts within and outside of FF&P
  • Influence and challenge to support the drive for productivity gains across finance through process and reporting improvement/alignment
  • Prepare and evaluate Regional strategic business cases (capital investments & strategic decision support)
  • Latest Outlook and Risks & Opportunities management for the Europe region
  • Lead and coordinate the full Product Costing and Budget preparation process for the region. Sufficient understanding of the costing to simulate the impact of changes
  • Explore & deliver opportunities for standard reporting & analysis tools, using Syngenta advanced technology
  • Utilizing the entire FF&P finance team to drive business priorities effectively
• Actively shape and improve the key business finance processes
• Manage a team of Production business partners, facilitate career development of team members

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
• 8-10 years of experience in different areas of business finance and controlling
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to work with all levels of the organisation
• Experience in influencing key stakeholders towards adopting and aligning to relevant procedures and tools
• Experience in managing a team
• Sound knowledge of product costing principles
• Experience with financial tools or principles of NPV, risk analysis, and value creation
• Wide knowledge of finance (financial analysis, investment analysis, valuation analysis, risk management, budgeting / planning, standard costing)
• Strong leadership, influencing, teamwork skills
• High focus and energy with a pragmatic mind set and solution-oriented approach
• Ability to interact and influence at different levels within the organization
• Project management skills
• ACCA/CIMA qualification
• 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 

Discover more about Syngenta Budapest Center by visiting our official website: Link

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.

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