Finance Reporting and Operations Lead

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.

Role purpose

As the Financial Reporting and Operation Lead in Thailand, this role will supervise Thailand Financial reporting/tax, financial/accounting operation of 4 legal entities. This role is expected to have proficient experience in tax/accounting field, strong leadership/influencing skills as well as good hands-on capabilities to be accountable those operations and lead the team. This role will also work on process optimization and education of business stakeholders/employees in responsible areas.   

Accountabilities

• Financial reporting – ensure that financial statements are prepared and reported in accordance with IFRS/corporate policies as well as Thai GAAP for 4 legal entities. (Crop protection, Seeds, Regional office, dormant). Need to understand business landscape and basic group FP&A reporting principle including manufacturing plants/COGS management etc. Meet internal/external reporting requirement and manage external audit.
• Tax compliance (including Transfer Pricing) – manage overall responsibilities/accountabilities for tax areas - Corporate tax/indirect tax filling, Group tax reporting, manage local tax authorities/audit, transfer pricing (import/export/Regional service) and relevant VAT, by working closely with Regional/Global tax team as well as an external tax firm. Understand Syngenta Internal TP policy and manage TP change/assessment process as well as necessary documentation preparation according to local tax regulation.
• Internal Control - ensure that proper internal controls are in place and monitor that control activities are operated effectively in accordance with the Global internal control framework.
• Supervise day to day Finance operation - O2C (Order-to-Cash) and P2P (Procure-to-pay), credit control, treasury managed by Fin team in Thailand, as well as Finance Operation Centres in India. Identify opportunities of Operational improvement and follow up action plans such as fixed assets control, inventory control.
• Knowledge transfer and capability development – create and build strong team knowledge and share best practices to team members. Drive capability/career development of own self and team members. 
• Build relationship – build and work collaboration with Finance Operation (SSC) team in India on business knowledge and develop efficient working processes. Proactively collaborate with Business Controller team and other business stakeholders including Region/Global to support their activities and take accountabilities.
• Work on ad-hoc local/regional/Global project (i.e. SAP HANA migration from ECC, Dormant entity closure + improvement of CF/loan management, Indirect tax instruction review/workload optimization, T&E policy review & implementation etc)

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or related fields
• Big 4 manager experience is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Tax, Accounting and Transfer Price at manager level
• IFRS, Thai Tax knowledge as well as BOI regulations (IBC experience is a plus)
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Working experience in MNC and overseas stakeholder management
• Strong in interpersonal skills, analytical skill, time & multi-task management and with an experience in SAP and Microsoft Excel program
• Good team leader and team player, capable to build solid relationship with stakeholders.
• Proactively work on understanding complexity of business and entity structure to build capability of judgement, stakeholder management and seeking solution
• Have strong sense of ownership and accountability

Geographic Scope:

 • Country – Thailand, also provides service to the Regional office based on the service agreement