Senior Controller (Finance Business Partner) - AMEA

Role Purpose

Senior Controller role is a progressive role to become trusted finance business partner to the region and commercial finance units in AMEA region. It intends to strengthen the operating layer as well support tactical finance initiatives to CP (Crop Protection) Commercial organization, and leading comprehensive Financial Planning & Analysis activities across the region.

Working directly with the AMEA CP Regional Commercial Finance Lead, this position provides critical insights and recommendations to drive business performance and decision-making through robust financial analysis and commercial acumen, across the Commercial units.

Accountability

HOW:

• Be a trusted finance business partner, supporting all activities in scope, on recurring and ad hoc finance topics
• Seamlessly engaging and interacting with finance communities and stakeholders
• Adding value to organization through providing business insight, understanding the numbers, creating stories and challenging the status quo
• Build relationships across multiple finance functional teams to co create
• Develop understanding of Syngenta's business and interaction / matrix organization

WHAT:

• Month end closing:
  • Analyze monthly sales and function costs, 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 and function cost 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 fully utilize available reports (and further develop) to enhance user experience, 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 (CoA, DoA, FTEs Analysis)
• Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
  • Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L 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 MBR process
  • Prepare and collect insightful commentaries for robust reporting and analysis
  • 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
• Finance business partner support to Asia CU Finance team

Qualifications

• Master Degree in Economics, Accounting or Finance
• At least 7-8 years in Finance planning and analysis is a must
• Previous experience in commercial finance will be considered as an advantage
• Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Technology Mindset, preferably good knowledge of SAC (SAP Analytics)
• Understanding of Agricultural business, processes and industry drivers
• Finance business partnering mindset
• Strong Communication with Fluent English and interpersonal skills

Functional or Leadership Competency related specifically to this job

• High Finance Analytical Skills to crunch numbers, create stories and generate insights for Leaders to act upon.
• Collaboration: Looks for opportunities to enhance or expand relationships with internal stakeholders supporting them with trade off analysis when making requests of Finance, proactively shares best practices to foster collective responsibility in achieving goals and escalating new ideas to improve quality and processes, empower the network, and enables the performance of others
• Self- Improvement : Asks for help when appropriate, seeks feedback constantly, evaluating successes and failures to learn from experience
• Technology awareness:  Understands emerging technology platforms and services across industries, bringing innovation and taking risks in pursuit of valuable digital opportunities. Understands emerging technology platforms and services across industries, bringing innovation and taking risks in pursuit of valuable digital opportunities.
• Judgment: Analyzes information, guidelines, and requirements from different sources to evaluate alternatives and make effective judgments. Draws accurate, useful conclusions from financial, business, and quantitative information. Makes timely and sound decisions on everyday issues and problems.