Job Description

Position Summary:

1. Strategic R&D; Prioritization: Can you share an example of how you have co-created long-term financial strategies and evaluated investment trade-offs to maximize R&D; portfolio value in a global organization?
2. Senior Stakeholder Influencing: Describe a time when you had to influence senior, cross-functional business and commercial leaders on a complex financial strategy. How did you build alignment?
3. Scenario Planning & Risk Management: What is your approach to scenario planning and managing financial risks and opportunities when building long-range plans for multi-regional operations?
4. Global Collaboration: This role requires alignment across regional finance partners, global teams, and R&D; hub functions. How do you ensure seamless collaboration and financial consistency across geographically dispersed teams?
5. Finance Modernization: How have you successfully driven or contributed to finance modernization initiatives (e.g., advancing analytics, developing new metrics, or optimizing forecasting processes) in your previous roles?

Accountabilities:

- Act as a thought partner for senior leadership to develop and implement business strategies that deliver on core Seeds targets and objectives.
- Influence decision-making processes by providing financial insights and recommendations, developing investment cases, collaborating on operational initiatives, and developing financial models which include the use of data science and modeling various portfolio scenarios.




- Advance digital transformation in Seeds Finance by implementing reporting dashboards and designing up-to-date finance models with digital tools and predictive analytics.
- Oversee long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis to support business planning and performance.
- Manage the Seeds Tropics Hub R&D; P&L; with focus on functional costs and risk/opportunity assessment.
- Partner closely with Regional Commercial, Strategy, R&D;, and Finance teams to assist in the development of a multi-pillared R&D; portfolio valuation and prioritization model.
- Partner with Regional, Country Finance teams within Tropics Hub as well as finance teams cross hubs to drive consistent global processes for Budgets, Long Range Plans etc.
- Analyze financial data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for growth and efficiency.
- Lead financial processes for forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans, CAPEX, and key initiatives.
- Provide financial expertise to support strategic initiatives and projects across Tropics Hub functional areas.
- Train the business community on functional financial matters.
- Ensure adherence to financial regulations and company policies and controls through close partnership with Group Accounting, Internal Audit, and External Auditors to ensure compliance by leveraging financial excellence and best practices.
- Identify and mitigate financial risks to safeguard company assets.
- Support Agile initiatives and process improvements.

📌 Tropics Hub Seeds R&D Finance Lead (Pune)
🏢 Syngenta Seeds
📍 Pune