Seeds Finance Business Partner

Role Purpose 

• Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for Seeds Ukraine
• Be a trusted partner to SE Finance Head Ukraine and key business stakeholders to provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials and support business decisions
• Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes and contribution to regional “Garage” team

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:
  • Analyse monthly sales (optional) and function costs (key focus), 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 (optional) and function cost (key focus) 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 (SAC) to further develop (SAC stories) 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 of function cost reports

• Master data management:
  • Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting)

• 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 and function cost owners 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 visualisation 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 from one of top universities in Ukraine 
• 5 years+ in Finance planning and analysis is a must
• Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Strong knowledge of Excel, SAP, preferably good knowledge of Power Point and Think Cell
• Sound experience with business intelligence systems (dashboards, visualization tools) is a must
• Understanding of Agricultural business, processes and industry drivers will be considered as advantage
• Finance business partnering mindset
• At least Upper Intermediate level of English 

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs. Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.