AMEA FC Commercial Finance Business Partner

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Position Summary:

• Be a trusted finance partner to Asia FC Leadership and AMEA Marketing, supporting financial planning, analysis and delivery of financial targets across AMEA
• Support regional financial consolidation and reporting, ensuring accurate, timely and consistent P&L, Working Capital and Cash Flow visibility across countries
• Actively contribute to the development and implementation of operational and financial plans (including Budget, Latest Outlook and 3–5-year plan), ensuring clarity and alignment of financial assumptions across markets
• Provide management with reliable financial analysis and insights, highlighting key drivers, risks and opportunities related to economic and commercial exposures
• Ensure data-driven decision making, supporting business teams with robust business cases and financial evaluations
• Drive consistency, standardization and simplification of finance processes across AMEA, providing guidance to countries on tools, methodologies and best practices
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and alignment across commercial finance teams, establishing best-practice exchange and supporting capability building across the region
• Support and contribute to regional initiatives and projects, particularly in areas of digitalization, reporting and process improvement

Accountabilities:

AMEA Support – Consolidation, Governance & Processes (≈50%)

• Support AMEA financial consolidation and reporting, ensuring accurate and timely visibility of P&L, Working Capital and Cash Flow across CU’s and countries
• Coordinate Budget, Forecast and Actuals processes, ensuring consistency of assumptions, methodologies and submissions across markets
• Provide guidance to countries on planning cycles (Budget, LP, LO), including timelines, templates and key financial assumptions
• Support consolidation of Latest Plan (LP) and Latest Outlook (LO), ensuring alignment of portfolio, COGS, inventory and other key assumptions
• Support Month-End and Year-End landing processes, coordinating inputs, consolidating results and providing performance insights
• Assist in monitoring AMEA financial performance, highlighting key variances, risks and opportunities
• Support management of AMEA HQ cost base (MS&D, G&A), ensuring transparency and alignment with business priorities
• Drive consistency and standardization of finance processes, promoting adoption of common tools and best practices (including SAC)
• Support development and enhancement of digital reporting and dashboarding (including use of AI and analytics tools)
• Foster knowledge sharing across commercial finance teams, establishing best-practice exchange and supporting capability development across CUs and countries
• Contribute to process improvement and simplification initiatives across AMEA finance

Business Partnering Support – Asia FC & AMEA FC Marketing (≈50%)

• Support Asia FC Leadership and AMEA FC Marketing teams with financial planning, analysis and performance tracking
• Prepare and support business cases and financial analysis to enable data-driven decision making
• Support evaluation of pricing, campaigns, incentives and commercial policies
• Assist in assessing financial impact of commercial initiatives and identifying risks and opportunities
• Contribute to planning processes (Budget, LP, LO) for Asia FC and Marketing scope, ensuring alignment with regional assumptions
• Provide support on portfolio analysis and performance tracking, including key drivers and variances
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between commercial decisions and financial targets

Required Qualifications:

• A finance professional with 7+ years of experience in business finance and controlling, preferably with exposure to planning, reporting and consolidation processes
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams and engaging with stakeholders across different levels of the organisation.
• Experience in supporting and influencing stakeholders, encouraging alignment towards defined processes, tools and methodologies
• Experience in working with multi-cultural and virtual teams, coordinating activities across countries without direct reporting lines
• Experience in financial planning and analysis processes (Budget, Forecast, Latest Outlook) in a regional or multi-country environment is an advantage

Critical knowledge

• Best practices for financial planning processes, including development of annual budgets, latest estimates and forecasts
• Sound understanding of business and industry drivers, and their impact on financial performance
• Strong proficiency in Excel and SAP; knowledge of business intelligence and reporting tools (e.g. SAC, Power BI) is an advantage
• Good knowledge of financial analysis and modelling, supporting business case development and decision making
• Understanding of commercial finance topics, including pricing, commercial terms, and campaign planning
• Good knowledge of core finance areas (financial analysis, planning and budgeting, basic valuation and risk awareness)
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly and effectively, supporting business understanding and decision making
• Structured and solution-oriented mindset, with strong attention to detail and focus on quality of outputs
• Strong collaboration mindset and ability to work effectively in a matrix and cross-country environment
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities, demonstrating reliability and accountability in delivery
• Comfortable working with financial systems and tools, with interest in digital solutions and process automation
• Technology savvy, drive for digitalisation

Desired Qualifications:

Critical leadership capabilities

• Customer management: ability to interact effectively with stakeholders across countries and regional teams, building constructive relationships and supporting alignment
• Judgment: supports timely and well-informed decision making by providing reliable data, analysis and involving relevant stakeholders
• Insight generation: ability to consolidate data, identify key drivers and provide clear financial insights to support business understanding

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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