Senior Finance Partner for External Customer Management

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business-focused mindset to support Novo Nordisk’s ambitious expansion journey? Are you ready to take on diverse responsibilities, from defining and integrating a brand new activity and business area into our part of Novo Nordisk, to driving operational financial reporting and process optimization? Do you get energy from interacting with stakeholders and delivering finance business partnering to drive insights and decision-making? Would you like to be part of a financial centre of excellence with ambitious, engaged, and great colleagues where you can influence our development while having fun?

Then this is a great opportunity for you to join us as a Senior Finance Partner in the Business Finance team and contribute to shaping the future of one of the fastest growing global areas in Novo Nordisk’s value chain.

The position

As a Senior Finance Partner, your responsibilities include:

• Aiding in integrating a novel area and activity in Novo Nordisk.
• Designing and operating the annual financial wheel of budgeting and reporting on sales and operating 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.
• Continuously improving productivity by optimizing and visualizing financial insights and processes through digital finance and improving ways of working.

We are looking for a person with well-established experience to aid in the financial integration and partnering with a new area in Novo Nordisk. You will be involved in designing and operating core financial processes in the financial annual wheel as well as activities related to financial management and digital finance. The position offers a steep learning curve with plenty of exciting opportunities to make an impact, where you will help ensure strong financial tracking and the development of your Financial Planning & Analysis and stakeholder management capabilities.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in this role, you possess:

• 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 such as affiliate, commercial, or operations finance.
• 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 a person, you are highly initiative and energetic, strongly motivated to combine finance and business partnering, willing to take responsibility for your own learning, structured, analytical, attuned to business dynamics, capable of independently driving tasks and projects forward persistently, thriving in a flexible, fast-paced, and multicultural environment, self-driven and proactive in striving to learn and achieve ambitious goals, attentive to details when necessary, and eager to be part of a strong team culture with a great sense of belonging.

About the department

You will report to the Manager of the External Supply Business Finance team. The team develops and drives financial management within operational costs and manning and is responsible for the External Supply area across all product portfolios, external contributors and on behalf of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT. This includes management of all global contract manufacturing, sourcing operations and strategic sourcing.

You will be part of a team of 13 employees, 10 in Denmark and 3 in India, which value purpose, responsibility and proactiveness. As a team, we treasure our open and informal team spirit and identity and build on our success on a high level of mutual trust within the team. We focus on continuously improving individual and team competencies with a clear focus of people development.

The position is based in Bagsværd and will relocate to Taastrup towards the end of 2024 together with the rest of the team.

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 65,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For more information, please contact Torben Emil Fredsgård, Senior Manager, ES Business finance at +45 3079 8668.

Deadline

1 August 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.