Senior Finance Partner

Do you have a strong passion for leveraging your financial acumen to steer strategic business choices? Are you skilled at enhancing financial procedures and guaranteeing adherence to regulations? 
If this resonates with you, you could be the ideal candidate for the role of Financial Partner we are seeking. Apply today to join Novo Nordisk for a life changing career! 
 

The position
The role involves ensuring an enhanced financial understanding across the organization through training and participation in cross-area processes, including site visits. It also entails ensuring the prompt and reliable delivery of formal submissions and ad-hoc requests within your domain. Additionally, it involves aligning financial submissions from API with the requirements and securing API areas in meeting financial targets, and representing API in financial matters as needed. Furthermore, managing areas of responsibility includes overseeing production economy, performance management, business intelligence, manning and capacity costs.

As a Senior Finance Partner, you will:
•    Analyse and report on PS API’s production economy, including unit costs, allocations, inventory valuation, and standard cost variances.
•    Ensure solid financial deliverables from PS API to relevant stakeholders.
•    Safeguard financial targets in PS API.
•    Demonstrate broad knowledge within finance processes and act as the local Process Champion and sometimes PS API champion.
•    Lead projects or standard problem-solving tasks to seek improvement opportunities and solve business challenges.
•    Proactively use area knowledge and business insight to seek improvement opportunities and solve business challenges.
•    Reactively support central or local business cases and decision-making involving areas of responsibility.
•    Establish and continuously improve financial forecasting, planning and reporting across PS API.

Qualifications
We are looking for a candidate with the following qualifications:
•    Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
•    Experience with production economy, including unit costs, inventory valuation, and standard cost variances.
•    Experience with financial processes, including planning, reporting, and management, as well as broad business knowledge.
•    Strong communication skills, preferably in Danish and English.
•    Analytical and IT flair.
•    Independence and flexibility.
•    Ability to manage stakeholders at different levels.
•    Proactive, result, and solution-oriented mindset based on LEAN principles.

As an individual, you possess strong communication skills at different levels is crucial, given the job's requirement to engage with employees across the organization who possess varying levels of comprehension. This involves tasks such as ensuring alignment during forecasting and planning processes, as well as offering valuable business insights and essential knowledge for specific business cases and challenges.

About the department
You will be joining the team API Manufacturing Finance in the department API Finance and Procurement. API Manufacturing Finance supports our API production facilities with financial analysis and business insights. We transform data into strategies, informing managerial decisions with our findings. We contribute to a range of optimisation projects and provide many insights that shape the way we will do things in the future. Our data sources are varied, and the models we employ have been part of Novo Nordisk’s success – making us ready for the latest Novo Nordisk product is part of our mission, ensuring that we work in the best way possible, when it comes to efficiency, yield, and agility.
In the team, we are proud to be part of API, and we enjoy maintaining the humorous and ambitious environment to which we all contribute. Here, we are good at helping each other with complicated challenges and celebrating each other’s victories. We look forward to welcoming you to the team, and to sharing our knowledge and experience.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don't wait for change. We drive change. We are 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 and strive for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop; we seize them. Working at Novo Nordisk means working towards something greater than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the collective potential and collaboration of its more than 47,000 employees to make life better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Together, we move forward. Together, we change lives.

Contact
If you would like to discuss further, you are welcome to contact Morten Gjerulff - Manager, API Manufacturing Finance at +45 3079 6260.

Deadline
31 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.