Flowers Junior Analyst at Syngenta

Role
Act as Junior Analyst,

• Supporting the finance business partners and finance analyst with recurring activities.
• Work with business on specific topics investigating arising issues.
• Grow into a future finance analyst, supporting key stakeholders (mainly sales), with reporting, analysis and financial support.

How
Accountabilities

• Act as a trusted Junior Analyst, supporting the commercial teams and stakeholders on recurring and ad hoc finance topics.
• Have a proactive and willing to do attitude to identify gaps and act on arising issues
• Provide broad financial skillset in project / ad-hoc assignments
• Build relationships across multiple finance and business
• Develop understanding of Syngenta’s business and interaction between the different business units and functional reporting lines

What
Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support all key business decisions
Sales Reporting

• Support sales team by investigating arising questions on Sales / Cogs / GP for actuals and sales orders
• Update and investigate following sales related reports:
• Cancellation report
• Sales Target report
• Rebate and commission related calculations
• Month-end Sales Cut-off reporting
• Support reconciliation of different data sources / reports
• Royalty revenue and commission bookings
• Review Master data periodically and give guidance to Customer Service

Function Cost Reporting

• Supporting the Finance BPs (Lisette Hartkoren and Barbara Wilson) on monthly activities
• Cost Center / Marketing / Transportation cost reporting and analysis
• Month-end closing activities
• Ad hoc projects as necessary to support the business

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Working in virtual teams
• Open for continuous improvement
• Professional, proactive attitude, not just doing the things but understanding the whole picture
• Ability to understand the Commercial activities behind the numbers
• Ability to handle multiple stakeholders, priorities and deadlines
• Sound professional judgement and effective influencing
• Support respective Analysts and Leads

Qualifications
Knowledge, experience & capabilities
Critical knowledge

• Bachelor/Master/MBA/Business School in Economics or Finance or in progress
• Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Excel & SAP knowledge are a must, business intelligence systems an advantage
• Power BI and affinity to other business intelligence systems an advantage
• Understanding of Syngenta processes preferred