Company Description

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.

Job Description

Role and Responsibility

• Responsible of Industrial Cost Control, Standard Cost computation and Cost variance analysis (COGS).
• Control SG&A expense to comply with budget and defined targets.
• Coordinate and Monthly reporting commentary including a clear understanding of Risk and opportunity on PL for production site.
• Monitor inventory provision and control to be in line with budget.
• Lead the team for all planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and business scenario analysis (COGS, PPV, VPC, Function Expense (Site and R&D and CAPEX).
• Gather, analyze and prepare financial information for planning and decision making.
• Coordinate the annual forecasting processes, analyze and challenge the business.
• Act as a business partner, support the business and playing a key challenger role to the business.
• Drive transparency and consistency in all related financial aspects.
• Any ad-hoc as assigned by the management

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience & capabilities
Critical knowledge

• Business Financial planning cycles
• Business Case Analysis
• Costing background (is a plus)

Critical experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience all facets of accounting and business partnering role in an MNC environment (Audit background is a plus).
• Involvement in business analysis.
• Business partnering.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Certified Public Accountant, MBA preferred
• Finance analysis tools and techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Analytical skills
• Good in building relationship

Critical leadership capabilities

• Develop goals and prioritize actions
• Communicate effectively
• Achieve goals and standards
• Manage performance to ensure high results
• Coach to release creativity and innovation
• Promote and develop teamwork across functions

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Be a key influencer and trusted business partner
• Delivery of reliable and accurate financial and management information
• Positive attitude at work, focused and composed during difficult discussion with stakeholders
• Gain self-confidence, respect of peers and commercial stakeholders
• Highly independent, not afraid to speak out minds during discussions
• Excellent people management skills