Global Data Expert

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. To support this mission, Syngenta s Finance Operations Team is seeking a MDG COE - Global Data Expert in Pune.

Join a global Finance Master Data Governance team that helps safeguard the quality, consistency and reliability of the data underpinning financial processes worldwide. As Global Data Expert, you will act as a trusted operational data custodian and partner with regional Finance, Data Excellence and IT teams.

Accountabilities:

• Review, validate and process finance master-data change requests in line with global governance standards and agreed processes.
• Maintain finance master data, including GL accounts, cost centres, profit centres, bank master data, hierarchies, groups and mappings.
• Analyse and resolve CFIN/AIF-related errors; coordinate follow-up actions, reprocessing and closure within agreed SLAs.
• Partner with regional experts, Finance teams and IT to assess change impacts, manage escalations and improve data quality.
• Contribute to reporting, documentation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives. Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 5-7 years experience in finance master data, data governance or a comparable operational data-management role within a multinational environment.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MDG and SAP FICO, including master-data workflows.
• Working knowledge of finance master data, such as GL accounts, cost centres, profit centres and bank master data.
• Experience investigating CFIN/AIF errors, resolving issues and supporting transaction reprocessing.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability, including PivotTables, formulae and data analysis.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently in a global team.

Desired qualifications:

• Knowledge of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and reconciliation processes.
• Experience with ServiceNow, data lineage, data mapping or other data-governance tools.
• SAP FICO certification or relevant SAP finance certification.
• Experience supporting month-end close activities and working across global time zones.
• Qualification in Finance, Accounting, Technology or a related discipline.

Bring your finance data expertise to a role where sound governance translates into reliable decisions and resilient operations. You will work with a collaborative global team, solve meaningful data challenges and help shape practical improvements across Finance Master Data Governance.