Global Finance Systems Business Manager

With nearly 10,000 employees and $5 Billion USD sales across 100 countries, ADAMA is a leading crop protection company and part of Syngenta Group. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals and strongly believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is essential for our success. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join our team.

We are currently looking for a finance systems professional to join our Corporate Finance team in Airport City, Israel in the role of Global Finance Systems Business Manager. This role reports to the Head of Global Finance Systems and ERP Operations and is primarily responsible for implementation of financial processes and tools on a global level, being the professional focal point for Finance tools and leading the upgrade of ADAMA’s financial tools and capabilities.

Global Finance is a strategic partner for Executive Leadership, Operations, and Commercial units that drives collaboration and creates a single source of truth for financial information with actionable business insights to support ADAMA’s objectives and decision-making.

This role will support the finance department through implementation of global financial systems, tools and processes. Global financial changes in processes and requirements will be centralized and controlled by this role in order to achieve process and data standardization that will provide ADAMA with unified and reliable data.

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Support Global Finance teams in the development and managing of technological \ financial projects through professional system project management
• Provide continued support to ongoing projects (e.g. Master data establishment (Cost Centre, CoA) Transfer Pricing Tool, Rebates, Pillar 2)
• Automation – Identify potential initiatives for process efficiency in the company and lead the implementation of RPA’s to achieve it.
• Responsible for change control, risk assessment and mitigation plan following new system requirements/projects
• Establishment of annual workplan for routine work and projects.
• Lead regional teams toward process harmonization and establishment of global policies and procedures

Competencies:

• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Capability to analyze the business needs and convert them to system requirements
• Gets things done with personal ownership to deliver results
• Works well in a global multi-cultural environment
• Systematic thinker with strong business acumen, planning and process orientation
• Very strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent analytical and strategical thinking
• Highly responsive with follow up on tasks and deadlines
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressure dynamic environment
• Works independently and adapts quickly to a dynamic environment
• Strong team-working skills

Prior experience:

• 8-10 years of experience within financial planning and analytics areas - required
• Experience working in manufacturing industry – required
• Skilled at identifying initiatives for process improvement by automation or other technological tools – an advantage
• Experience with ERP systems as a key user - Sap Business One, S4H, ECC – an advantage
• Experienced with data tools such as SQL DB, PAPM, BI – an advantage
• Global project management experience involving business and technological areas - an advantage

Education and knowledge requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics\ Accounting
• Understanding and familiar with ERP (SBO, S4Hana) and financial processes
• Knowledge of SQL data base
• Knowledge with RPA UI-PATH system and features
• Fluent in English, professional working proficiency in Hebrew