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
Account Receivables Management:
- Work with Finance Operations in India to manage account receivables sub-ledger
- Maintaining accounts receivable files and records, as required
- Drive the Sales team for collection of receivables for >250 customers
- Performing ad-hoc account reconciliations as required by customers (eg: customer account statement, payment records)
- Checking payment from customer and confirm to Supply team for cash sales order
- Publishing monthly AR and Credit report to various stakeholders for their decision making
- Calculate early payment discount or/and Late payment interest monthly and ensure appropriate actions are taken
- Work with various support team to set up new receivable management process and system to improve customer’s ease of payment
Credit Operations:
- Ensuring Credit Policy adherence
- Assisting in credit assessment and help to set up credit limit for both CP and SE customers
- Contact sales team to gather customer financial data and documentation
- Assist Trade Credit Finance Lead with BU Credit Committee and Country Credit Committee meeting as required
- Identify enhancement and streamlining opportunities for Credit Operations processes
Treasury activities:
- Work with backend Treasury officer to provide banking and payment access to bank authorizer and maker users
- Supporting placement of fixed deposit with corporate banks as required by the Trade Credit Finance Lead
- Preparing supporting document and work with the bank for any change for company bank accounts
- Investigating and resolving any irregularities or enquiries
- Manage corporate credit card by assisting existing and new cardholders if any
Ad-hoc support for other operational activities in Order to Cash (O2C) process
- Support Trade Credit Finance lead on ad hoc operational activities in O2C process
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree specialized in Finance/Accounting
- Highly self-managed & motivated person, able to multi-task and excited to work in a collaborative MNC environment
- Ability to prioritize and manage expectations
- Be able to adapt style to influence positively and gain buy-in with commercial team
- Experience in AR management is preferred
- Good in IT, Microsoft Office skills, in particular advanced Excel skills
- Experience in SAP
- Good command in English