At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta is seeking a Financial Compliance Business Partner in Greensboro, NC.
This role will provide financial compliance expertise and advice to the North American Management Team. You will partner with the Regional Financial Compliance Lead, Finance Leadership, and Head of Group Financial Compliance to develop and implement the regional financial compliance strategy. You will drive compliance and accountability over financial risks and controls by monitoring adherence to the Internal Control Framework and mitigating risks of inaccurate financial reporting, asset misappropriation, and fraud.
Accountabilities:
- Together with the business, identify and mitigate key financial compliance risks at a regional level.
- Provide proactive, intelligent information to support decision-making, mitigate risks, prevent fraud, and safeguard assets.
- Support regional adherence to the Syngenta Internal Control Framework by coordinating testing, documentation, and remediation activities, and following up with control owners as needed.
- Ensure proper Segregation of Duties (SoD) by supporting system access rights requests within the region, including testing the effectiveness of mitigating controls on SoD risks.
- Explore ideas for improving or replacing controls through data analytics and use analytics for risk assessment.
- Liaise with external auditors regarding control testing.
- Monitor compliance with Delegation of Authority.
- Lead the annual fraud risk assessments.
- Conduct fraud investigations under the guidance of the Legal department.
- Provide insights on governance and internal controls to support projects, new business models, and integrations, ensuring appropriate controls are designed.
- Provide training and education to regional stakeholders.