This role will be part of the Finance team supporting the Seeds business and will experience a critical role for our business.
The purpose of the role is to support areas of the business, providing financial insight, ensuring financials are accurate and in line with short- and long-term objectives. In addition to collaborating with other areas of finance and business functions to ensure the comprehensive sustainability of the business.
Accountabilities:
- Support Seeds Finance BP to manage day to day business review
- To act as support (business analysis) to the Seed Development & Commercial Veg Team, working closely with the Seed Finance Lead.
- To run the key reporting processes to ensure timely completion of budget, forecast and actual information requirements, meet agreed group deadlines.
- Close collaboration and coordination with Seed Finance Lead and Regional/Other Reporting teams (i.e. GFO).
- Engagement with Seed Development organization to understand their needs and requirements and response quickly to ensure business as usual.
- Manage the R&D E2E LO/BUD process with stakeholders.
- Drive processes and best practices across the functions to make sure the team is inline with Syngenta Ways of Working.
- Manage Ad-hoc Projects and Requests as necessary to support the business in deep-diving in different business critical areas to give a better visibility on the way forward decisions.
Business impact:
- Responsible for fundamental changes of processes to eliminate inefficiencies and improve effectiveness and quality
- Ensures optimal resource and cost allocation within team (without budget responsibility)
- Generally, requires broad understanding of the activities across Syngenta
Responsibilities and requirements:
- May manage projects or supervise individuals
- Requires knowledge and understanding within own discipline/work area
- Requires formal qualification/vocational training and experience in own area of expertise
- Often develops or improves known methods, products, procedures and systems
- Often analyses, solves and communicates problems through selection of appropriate existing solution
- Sometimes evaluates new ideas and possibilities
- Builds relationships with key contacts within own network, internally and occasionally externally
- Ability to collaborate efficiently with staff at all levels within Syngenta
Management Ladder:
- May have some supervisory responsibility for non-professionals but mainly guides and acts as a resource for colleagues (professionals) with less experience
- Sometimes formally train junior staff
- Delivers results in stable businesses
- Typically works with minimal guidance
Professional Ladder:
- Requires knowledge and expertise in own discipline, still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills
- Generally contributes to product, process or service improvements
- Applies acquired expertise to analyse and solve straightforward problems using existing solutions
- Typically receives a moderate level of guidance and direction
- May have first responsibility for management / delivery of components of projects with little cross-functional content
