Finance BP Analyst South Africa - Pretoria, South Africa - Syngenta Crop Protection

Description

Role Purpose

• Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for BA South Africa
• Be a trusted partner to the CP Commercial Finance Lead South Africa to provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials
• Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes and contribution to regional Continuous Improvement agenda

Accountabilities

What:

• Actuals: Month end closing:
  • Analyse monthly sales and function costs, 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 accruals for sales deductions and function cost 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
• Master data management:
  • Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting)
• Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
  • Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L in scope
  • Provide support and guidance to business managers and function 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 the MBR process
  • 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 visualisation and predictive analysis techniques

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 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

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Qualifications / knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/ finance or equivalent
• Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Excel & SAP knowledge are a must, business intelligence systems an advantage
• Industry knowledge will be advantageous

Critical experience

• Minimum 3 years in Finance and Controlling
• SAICA articles will be advantageous, but not a must
• Financial planning analyses and/or similar roles are encouraged

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Analytical skills / big data analyses
• Financial and accounting acumen
• Communication and presentation skills
• Ability to prioritise, especially to work under pressure and tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently as well as within (cross-) functional teams
• High focus and energy, with a pragmatic mindset and solution-oriented approach

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Ability to apply professional knowledge of accounting and financial reporting in supporting the business
• Ability to handle multiple stakeholders, priorities and deadlines
• Working in virtual teams
• Sound professional judgement and effective influencing skills