Finance Lead Egypt

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

As a world market leader in crop protection,we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

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