Financial Reporting and Planning (FR&P) COE Analyst, APAC

About us 

We, FMC Agricultural Solutions, offer innovative crop protection solutions to growers around the world. Thanks to the commitment of our approximately 5,500 employees, we are one of the five largest manufacturers worldwide. FMC.com 

FMC India headquartered at Mumbai, with a regional office in Gurugram. Our formulation manufacturing sites are based at Panoli and Savli in Gujarat. We have a discovery research group at India Innovation Centre in Hyderabad and a field evaluation station SAFES at Vadodara, Gujarat. With employee strength of ~ 610 we’re present across all regions in India and offer solutions for nearly 30 crops. For more information, see FMC India 

Job Summary

You will play a key role in the preparation of management reporting, variance analysis and forecasting, delivery of annual budgets; as well as profitability analysis to support pricing and operational decisions to the APAC businesses. In addition to routine reporting for the APAC region and FMC’s Global Headquarters in the US, you also need to provide ad-hoc financial analysis for APAC Leadership Team to support critical business decisions. You will also support commercial activities such as pricing analysis, market share analysis, and the like.

This role requires working in partnership with regional and global COE teams and leverage of COE resources to better achieve the below key responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains a robust business partnering relationship
• Work closely with the Country Finance teams, drive effective communication, and address any potential concerns
• Prepare and consolidate regional management results, budgets and forecasts for the APAC region, as required
• Seek opportunities to improve the analysis of monthly financial and operational results
• Support monthly RSOP Presentations to be reviewed with the Regional Leadership
• Assist with the annual budgeting process, including preparation of supporting templates, and consolidation of business submissions
• Sub-Region data collection, template design and coordination with the rest of the COE team
• Support the Regional Marketing team with Product/segments/crops/Customer level analysis across different geographies and different time periods
• Monitor and report financial performance, explain variances to budgets, forecasts, and prior years.  Prepare and present consolidated reports to management as appropriate. Understand root causes of variances and work proactively with the different locations to institutionalize improvements and remedy unfavorable performance. This includes creating and maintaining spreadsheets to manage data and consolidation
• Have working understanding of Working Capital including Accounts Receivable, Payables, Inventory, and subsequent Cash Flow implications
• Collaborate with the HR Team & other stakeholders to ensure we have the most up to date Headcount related information
• New Product Introduction Tracking - Work with the Sub-Region Finance teams to summarize the latest view of the new launches planned for the year
• Support the Internal Control Reviews and facilitate satisfactory outcome
• Work closely with MR&P COE Lead to drive automation & standardization by leveraging S4/HANA and associated planning and reporting platforms (including BPC, Fiori, AFO and Power BI)
• Drive process improvement efforts to reduce time, facilitate analysis, & better decision-making

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business Administration, or related discipline
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of analytical and financial planning experience
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, attention to detail and ability to communicate complicated issues effectively
• Ability to work in a matrix organization
• Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment
• Ability to work across levels within the organization and foster strong relationships with others
• Solution oriented approach in problem solving
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Excel & Power point)
• SAP S4, BPC/AFO, Power BI/Tableau experience preferred
• Ability to multi-task and work with minimal supervision (self-motivated)
• Ability to handle large data sets
• Proficient in English