Finance Business Partner, Commercial

Finance Business Partner

Are you passionate about cross-functional partnering and do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your analytical expertise and strategic insights can drive impactful decisions? Do you have experience within financial business partnership?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Finance Business Partner.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, Spain, and France.

We are applying our TransCon® technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

We are seeking a passionate Finance Business Partner to support our Commercial expansion in International and European markets. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Commercial global expansion by partnering with senior management in Commercial, engaging with our external partners on financial matters. Your financial insights, analytical skills and actionable reporting will support decision making towards shared goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results.

You will be joining the Business Finance team consisting of colleagues in both Denmark and the US. You will be based in the headquarters in Hellerup, and report directly to Rikke Mørkeberg Poulsen, Senior Director in Business Finance, who is also based in Hellerup.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Provide financial business partnership and guidance on key planning assumptions, trade-offs, and scenarios to support strategic decisions across functions
• Develop, analyze, interpret, and present financial results with the ability to adapt messaging depending on the audience, from executive management to line manager level
• Proactively and creatively seek out opportunities to generate business cases to evaluate various options and assess their respective financial and business impact
• Support development of robust financial models and forecasting to support planning and strategy
• Prepare quarterly forecasts, revenue forecasts and long-term business plans
• Establish and define KPIs (business and financial metrics) and reports to effectively manage and measure business performance including recommendations for corrective actions
• Participate in all relevant working group meetings with partner

Qualifications and Skills:

You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably a master’s degree in finance or economics with minimum +5 years hands-on experience in a Finance Business Partnering role in an international company supporting the business across geographies.

We believe that the ideal candidate is a finance professional, who has solid experience from with, reporting and/or financial analysis. 

Furthermore, you have:

• High personal drive with a proactive and hands-on approach, being ready to take responsibility to successfully develop the business by taking initiatives in implementing new processes and solutions
• Excellent relationship-building skills and can multi-task in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Strong core business and communication/networking skills as well as ability to turn complex data into actionable insights
• You are adept at building management reports combining multiple data sources. An excellent team player, passionate and driven by an ambition to create value for the business
• Strong financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with POWER BI, planning/reporting tools and ERP systems (preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365)

Key competencies:

You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude.

You possess an entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key.  

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to be a true problem solver with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas within a global and multicultural environment.

Travel: 10-15 days per year.

Office: Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup 

Apply now.

As the holiday season approaches, please be aware that there may be a delay in our response to your application. We will make every effort to review applications once received, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the position or the company, please contact Rikke Mørkeberg Poulsen, Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, [email protected] or visit out website www.ascendispharma.com