Finance Business Analyst (Cost Control)

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 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 and function costs, production variances, internal and external seeds production spend, toller COGP, capital investments 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 function costs, production spend, variances and accruals are properly reflected in reported monthly results
• Participate in month-end closing processes
* 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 (or relevant scope)
* Master data management:
• Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, activity rates, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting)
* Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
• Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for production area in scope
• Provide support and guidance to production 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 Seeds Finance BP to manage day to day business review
• 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 visualization and predictive analysis techniques