Project Investment Controller

Location:

Bagsværd – Copenhagen, Zealand, Denmark

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

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Job ID:

131116572

Posted On: 

19 September 2024

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business mind-set in supporting Novo Nordisk ambitious production capacity expansion strategy? Do you possess a strong understanding of finance and controlling and wish your analytical skills in a global company, with many stakeholders across multiple sites?

If you want to be part of a team with an aspiration of being best in class and where you will have significant influence on how we solve our daily tasks, apply today and join us in the Investment Management team!

The position

As Project Investment Controller, you will work closely with your colleagues including Project Director, Project Portfolio Manager, Senior Project Managers, along with peers within the Novo Nordisk financial organisation.

As we are expanding our manufacturing capacity on a global scale, preparing to expand with new products, you play a key role in ensuring implementation and use of best practice project controls, along with fostering improvement and innovation.

Your role also involves serving as a key player in a project environment, assisting project managers, as we continually strive to strengthen project execution and simplify work processes.

Your primary responsibilities include:

-Participating in the year- and month-end (CAPEX) project closing, ensuring postings and accruals are handled in a compliant and timely manner
-Managing budget & forecasting on assigned projects, along with driving financial analyses, insights, and presentations
-Contributing to activities throughout the life cycle of investment projects, ensuring project governance compliance
-Supporting on payments executions incl. alignment with stakeholders at global sites, as well as ensuring Financial Compliance and House in Order
-Driving continuous improvement of financial and control processes, further strengthening the connection between business plans, activities, and resources to ensure value creation
 

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we believe you:

-Hold an academic degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field, coupled with practical financial controlling experience
-Possess solid experience working with the Microsoft Office Package and ERP systems, preferably SAP
Demonstrate a structured, result-oriented approach with outstanding analytical and coordinating skills, capable of transparently visualising data and numbers
Showcase the ability to tailor communication to a broad audience at all levels, and deliver high quality presentation material
-Display fluency in both written and spoken English

It would be considered as an advantage if you have experience with Business Intelligence suites, preferably Power BI and knowledge in VAT and Customs finance related operations.

As a person, you are proactive, high performing, and business minded, passionate about helping to drive projects that will positively impact our business. You have strong social and communication skills, a good sense of humour, and a high level of energy, with good networking and follow-up skills that help you to succeed with your tasks. You have a ‘can do’ mind-set, courage, and do not shy away from improving processes when it’s obvious that optimisations can be made, keeping an eye for details without losing sight of the bigger picture. Lastly, you are a valued business partner and you take pride in always taking your analyses one step further.

About the Department

You will be joining a finance team consisting of 27-30 people, where half of the people are non-Danish coming from 11 different countries. We drive the financial management and investment governance for the SVP area called External Supply in Novo Nordisk.

The department is split into three team: Business Finance, Production Finance and Investment Management. This position resides in the later and is reporting directly to the Director.

You will become part of a team that is driven, highly experienced, and dedicated to helping each other shine as well as caring for one another.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care. 

Contact

For further information on the position, feel free to contact Daniel B. Frederiksen, Director of Finance, at +45 3079 2104.

Deadline

1 October 2024.

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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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