Global Finance Business Partner

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Do you want to help provide healthy vegetables for everyone in the world and do you want to contribute to the improvement and sustainability of food production? Enza Zaden is an innovative company and market leader that develops, produces and sells seeds for vegetable varieties all over the world.

 
What are you going to do?

Reporting to the Global Manager Business Control, as a Strategic Finance Business Partner for the function Seed Operations, you act as the proactive strategic partner for the leaders of the assigned functional and cross-functional teams to enhance business performance, improvement and growth. You are the trusted advisor for Senior Management of the function. As member of the functional management team, you are actively involved in shaping and implementing the business strategy. You provide strategic input with a focus on value creation, improvement and growth. Furthermore, you will manage and support the planning & control cycle and conduct and prepare financial analyses, business cases and investment plans.

Enza Zaden is growing fast. The sector, technology and competition are rapidly changing. Environmental challenges, industry consolidation and internationalization, digitization to name a few. Within Enza Zaden you will be challenged to develop yourself and to extend your knowledge and skills. It is key to develop and maintain a strong working relationship with your network.

The ideal candidate has a Master-degree, complemented with around 10 years of relevant working experience in Controlling and Business Partnering preferably in a supply chain environment. You should be able to work in a fast-paced environment and have the right drive and ambition to make a career within this growing company.

In the role of Global Strategic Finance Business Partner you are the linking-pin between Finance and Seed Operations. Your key focus areas are: 

• Drive and optimize the financial performance of the Function by managing the plan-to-perform cycle which includes a best in class reporting, budgeting and forecasting process across regions, countries, business lines, crops and crop segments;

• Business and sparring partner of the Functional Director and Senior Management;

• Member of Functional Management Team and Crop Leadership Team;

• Support the development, implementation and monitoring of strategies and actions for the function and crops;

• Lead and drive functional business development activities (e.g., business cases, M&A activities etc.);

• Member of Global Business Control Lead Team and sparring partner of CFO and Finance Management Team;

• Develop and build capability with regional and local Business Controllers and/or Finance Managers.

Your Power

You are a driven, analytical and strategic financial who aspires to work in an international supply chain context. You are experienced as Business Partner and you enjoy working with senior managers. Building connections, working together and ensuring objectives are realized is what motivates you. You easily connect with others and you have a good understanding of Finance and supply chain processes on a global scale. Contributing to the right decision making is what you consider an exciting challenge and your general Finance professionality enables you to lead.

In short, you:

• Have at least 10 years professional experience as Finance Business Partner preferably in a supply chain context;

• Have experience in an international and multi-cultural work environment;

• Have an analytical and strategic mindset. You challenge people in the organization to continuously improve on strategic performance;

• Have proven stakeholder management capabilities at all levels, and you know how to make impact and influence Senior Management;

• Are a team player with high integrity with a personal and professional point of view;

• Are curious, innovative, energetic and self-confident;

• Are proficient in the English language;

• Have the ambition to challenge yourself and grow within the company.

Our Power

Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. And produces and sells its seeds all over the world. To explain to you properly (and as briefly as possible) what we do, we have created an animation.

The goal of our work? Giving everyone worldwide access to healthy and varied vegetables. With more than 2,500 passionate colleagues around the world, we work together every day on tomorrow's vegetables.

Would you like to know more about Enza Zaden as an employer? Then take a look at the Careers & Learning page or check out our page on LinkedIn.

A sneak peak of our benefits:

• Flexible working policy and a home working allowance

• 8.33% holiday allowance

• Performance reward percentage

• Individual and collective salary increase

• 25 holidays plus additional vitality days depending on age

• Laptop + mobile phone

• Contribution to a healthy pension scheme

Send your application to our Recruitment Department via the Apply button.

More information:

Sijmen Jansen

Corporate Recruiter

+31 6 21873615

si.jansen@enzazaden.nl

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.