Analista Financeiro de Manufatura

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.

Location: Paulínia - SP

Job Description

Provide strategic finance business partner support to Site manager, Production team and correlated areas.

Drive forward the control and compliance agenda within the territory in accordance with Syngenta’s standards, in particular the Internal Control Framework (ICF) and the Production & Supply Financial Framework (PSFF).

Proactively chase to enhance financial process efficiency through a technology awareness agenda aligned with finance evolution.

Actively supporting business decision with business case, make or buy, financial statements, cost projections and anticipating supply chain operational impact.

Accountabilities:

• Pro-actively drive and deliver increased transparency and business insight to the territory production financial performance. Provide support and challenge to the Territory Production Team through insightful business analysis to facilitate the delivery of excellent business and financial results.
• Pro-actively drive and coordinate key financial analysis (business delivery tracking, latest outlooks / estimates, business case, budgets, etc.) in accordance with global procedures and deadlines. Ensure continuity and accuracy in the reporting of monthly results, development of latest outlook and tracking of business delivery.
• Actively participate in the Production Finance month-end-close review meetings, highlighting variances against forecast and follow up actions to mitigate adverse variances with forward looking view.
• Actively participate on standard fixed costing process, supporting all estimates related to fixed cost, cost breakdown and detailed cost analysis. Collaborate with Production areas to meet deadlines and achieve high quality of assumptions and inputs.
• Develop deep business understanding (manufacturing processes), continuously look for ways to financial improvements through production processes (for instance reporting/KPI/dashboard) acting as ambassador of Production savings and financial compliance for Latin America manufacturing processes.
• Support on M&A and Integration projects.

WL3A

At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves.

Essential for this position:

Qualifications

Critical knowledge:

• Degree in Economics, Accounting, Business Administration or any other correlated with knowledge of IFRS and standard costing methodology;
• Financial Compliance understanding;
• SAP user.

Critical experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in BP Finance or Controlling or Management Accounting;
• Previous experience in Manufacturing correlated area or Cost Accounting;
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to work with all organisation levels;
• Experience in influencing stakeholders towards adopting and aligning to relevant finance and manufacturing procedures & policies;
• Participation of standard costing process;
• Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities;
• Intermediate level of written and verbal communication in Spanish;
• Ability to communicate in English (advanced English level);
• Ability to work with deadlines and time pressure;
• Ability to pay attention to detail, while understanding and driving the bigger strategic picture;
• Logical thinking to define best assumptions based on Business reality;
• Advanced Excel;
• Knowledge on BI tools;
• Team player, proactive and collaborative.

Beyond just believing in the power of diversity, Syngenta promotes an inclusive culture that includes differences in all its forms. We believe that the feeling of belonging allows people to become their best version, building an increasingly welcoming and productive environment.

All qualified candidates will be considered for our positions, without distinction of race, gender, age, nationality or disability.