Role Purpose
- Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for seeds internal and external production spend, site COGP, capital investments, production variances
- Being a trusted partner to respective finance and business stakeholders to provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials
- Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes
Accountabilities
Actuals: Month end closing:
- Analyse monthly production variances, internal and external seeds production spend, site COGP, capital investments 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 production spend, variances and accruals 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 (or relevant scope)
Master data management:
- Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, activity rates, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting)
Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
- Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for production area in scope
- Provide support and guidance to production 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 site monthly review 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