Financial Analyst

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. 

Job Description

The Financial Analyst will support the Crop Protection (CP) businesses with a focus on supporting gross-to-net sales analysis and function expenses, utilizing technology skills.

Duties:

• Work closely with CP Commercial Finance Business Partners and provide financial support and analysis, including:
  • Provide gross-to-net and discount exposure analysis.
  • Ensure proper liability balances and accrual rates for marketing programs are maintained through periodic reconciliations both in-season and year-end.
  • Provide business case analysis and support as needed.
• Partner with stakeholders to provide functional expense support, including:
  • Month-end reporting and functional expense controlling, and accruals
  • Forward-looking forecasting, supporting risks & opportunity discussions and trade-offs, feeding the North America consolidated view
  • Forward-looking analysis, return on investment (ROI)
  • Building the operational plans (cost center budgets) to meet targets
  • Utilize technology for variance analysis including headcount analysis
  • Support productivity initiatives
  • Contact point for cost center owners and finance BP
  • Contact for Accounting to Reporting team regarding month-end close activities
• Work with certain key account managers to calculate and execute redemption activities as well as participating in program development when appropriate.

This will be working in our Greensboro, NC location in a hybrid work setting. Other established Syngenta locations will be considered.

Qualifications

Required:

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics and/or related field of study, with a focus on technology.
• 2 to 5 years accounting/finance experience
• Experience in financial planning, analysis, modeling and benchmarking
• Experience with standard financial analysis tools, i.e., NPV, risk assessment, and value creation
• Solid technology and data analytics skills
• Experience preparing company budgets

Preferred:

• Experience with SAP Cloud Analytics

All applicants must be able to work in the US without sponsorship from Syngenta. 

Additional Information

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day  
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution  
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. 
Learn more about our team and our mission here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

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. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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