Strategic Senior Finance Partner

Location:

Bagsværd – Copenhagen, Zealand, Denmark

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Information Technology Jobs

Other Industries & Skills:

Purchasing & Supply Chain

Job ID:

131263533

Posted On:

24 October 2024

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business-focused mindset to support the

development of the future Novo Nordisk product pipeline

? Are you ready to take on diverse responsibilities from ensuring integration of investment and M&A projects into daily operations to driving operational financial reporting and process optimisation? Do you get energy from stakeholder interaction and delivering finance business partnering to drive insights and decision-making?

If yes, then you might be the perfect candidate

to join a central finance function in Chemistry, Manufacturing & Control (CMC) Development & Scaling in Bagsværd as strategic Senior Finance Partner. 

Join us as we pave the way to scale capacity and drive business excellence in CMC. Apply now!

The position

You will report to the Senior Manager of the CMC Finance & Supply Chain team, which consists of 6 engaged colleagues. As an experienced finance professional, you are urged to contribute to the development of your junior colleagues, also intended to mature your leadership skills for future career opportunities.

As a Senior Finance Partner, your responsibilities include:

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-Designing and operating the annual financial processes of budgeting and reporting on research and development costs, including planning, and executing budget updates, and ensuring transparency and understanding of changes between budget rounds.
-Delivering high-quality insights and forecasting to support business decisions and actions.
-Driving value creation by linking finance activities to business priorities, ensuring the connection between business plans, activities, and optimal resource allocation, and delivering trusted finance business partnering to support strategic decision-making.
-Steering the integration of capacity and M&A investments to operational budgets and ensuring the link between finance and the supply and demand outlook for the R&D pipeline.

Finally, you will be involved in the optimisation of core financial processes, which require a well-established experience to aid in the financial management.

To succeed in this position, you will navigate through a complex stakeholder landscape with a strong strategic focus as well as influence and engage with stakeholders at all levels and across diverse professional disciplines. 

The position offers a steep learning curve with plenty of exciting opportunities to make an impact and develop your profile beyond finance driven by close interaction with the business on strategic aspirations and capacity balancing.

The position is based in Bagsværd with stakeholders in other Novo Nordisk locations in the Greater Copenhagen area.

Qualifications

You hold a Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting (cand.merc., cand.oecon., cand.polit or similar) with at least 4-5 years of work experience within finance, preferably in a similar setting.

Furthermore, you possess:

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-A good understanding of financial management and controlling; experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is an advantage.
-Experience with BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.) and SAP is an advantage, but not a prerequisite; however, a willingness to explore and work with these tools is needed.
-Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
-Proficiency in both oral and written English.
-Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.

As an initiative and energetic person, you are strongly motivated to combine finance and business partnering. You are known for your structured and analytical approach, attuned to business dynamics and capable of independently driving tasks and projects forward persistently. Attentive to details, when necessary.

You take responsibility for your own learning, self-driven and proactive in striving to learn and achieve ambitious goals. You value being part of a strong team culture with a great sense of belonging as well as thriving in a flexible, fast-paced, and multicultural environment. Further you have a natural flair for leadership and can guide more junior colleagues when necessary.

About the department

As part of Novo Nordisk PSQIT organisation, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Development & Scaling makes a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop, manufacture and distribute drug candidates for clinical trials and have a strong culture with a “can do” mind-set. 

The CMC Finance & Supply Chain team is anchored in CMC Executive Office, where we deliver high quality support towards the senior management in CMC. We have a high focus on continuously improving individual and team competencies with a clear focus of people development, team culture and encouraging each other to find the best solution in a fast-growing environment.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 68.000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For more information, Line Daugaard, Senior Manager, CMC Finance & Supply Chain at +45 3077 6654.

Deadline

6 November 2024

Please note we will run a short deadline; hence we
will
review applications and call in for interviews continuously.

No cover letter is needed, but please include a few sentences about your motivation for the position in your CV.

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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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