Management Trainee Finance

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.

Act as Finance Business Partner for the country P&S organization by providing strong financial support to Production and Supply Managers in all production and supply related matters, covering reporting and controlling activities, standard costing, budgeting, financial risk management and growth investments.

Accountabilities:

Responsible for all production and supply related matters for the Crop Protection (CP) division, covering end to end supply chain activities.
Key accountabilities cover :

• Working with FO to prepare management reporting related to key P&S financial performance/ metrics. Proactively provide commentaries on key drivers behind key cogs variances (e.g. manufacturing fixed costs, production & distribution variances, capacity utilization and inventory analysis)
• Perform in-depth analysis of cost drivers and drive resource and cost optimization activities.
• Working with CP Finance lead to perform product cost analysis & annual standard cost setting activities
• Collaborate with CP Finance lead and Site to provide decision support analysis for growth investments and capex submission for approval
• Working with CP Finance Lead to drive key planning processes for the country (i.e. Budgeting, Latest Outlook/Estimates, Sales & Operations Planning)
• Drive the country financial compliance agenda related to P&S, ensuring adherence to both internal & external financial policies and regulations

• Minimum Bachelors Degree in relevant discipline with max. 2 years working experience
• Leadership experiences through being part of organizations and managing events
• Excellent skills in English, communications, presentation, data statistics, analytics, MS Office and digital platforms
• Attention to details. Strong analytical competence, self-motivated and results driven. Good experience in standard costing and cogs variance analysis required.
• Advanced Excel and excellent computer skills in reporting
• Good communicator and team player, in working across different levels of management and across functions