Senior Finance Partner

Are you looking for a great opportunity to be a subject matter expert in a role as Sr. Finance Partner? Then you might be our new employee. We are looking for a senior profile, who has experience with budgeting and project controlling, but also possess remarkable analytical skills and is able to build seamless stakeholder partnerships.
If you're ready to embrace a new challenge, delve into the details and apply today!
The Position
The Senior Finance Partner role is a part of the finance team which drives the financial agenda at the site in Hillerød in close collaboration with the management team.
Your main tasks as a Senior Finance Partner are to:

• Drive budget process and follow-up: Facilitate the budget process to ensure resources are allocated to business priorities and all areas are pushing for stretched optimization ambitions. This requires curiosity about understanding the business to both understand needs for additional funding and where there is a need for additional actions to succeed with the budget. This also requires good stakeholder management and an ability to run a complex process with many sub-deliverables.
• Ensure insights and transparency into the cost base: To enable line of business to manage spend efficiently it is essential to have strong insights into how the budget is spent. The finance team is responsible for providing this insight to line of business through use of BI tools and strong data analysis. This requires strong analytical skills and preferably knowledge about BI tools.
• Drive the cost optimization agenda: Support management by facilitating discussions and workshops on how to optimize the cost base, bring analysis and external perspective on opportunities and help set the financial direction for the site. You can also be expected to drive various optimization initiatives. To succeed in this, you need to be able to interact with senior management and bring a consultant mind-set on how to facilitate change.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• Financial background with a master's degree or bachelor's degree within Finance, Business Administration, Economics or similar.
• 3-5 years of experience with budgeting and reporting.
• Good understanding of financial management and controlling. Previous experience in a production industry is an advantage.
• Previous experience with budgeting, monthly reporting processes and with key reporting tools (e.g. PowerBI, SAP etc.) is a requirement. Knowledge of SAP is an advantage.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is essential.
• Proficiency in both oral and written English, and preferably also substantial Danish skills.

As a person, you have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You come with a high level of initiative, a strong motivation for combining Finance and business partnering to line of business, and a willingness to take responsibility for your own learning.
You are expected to be structured and analytical and able to keep an overview, drive tasks and projects forward independently, manage your own time and deliverables, pay timely and appropriate attention to details when needed and be a team player.
About the department
Asceptic Manufacturing (AM) in Novo Nordisk is seeking a Senior Finance Partner to AM site Hillerød. AM represents a global part of the Novo Nordisk organisation, with factories in Denmark, China, Brazil, France, and USA. The factory is a growing organisation of around 1,200 people. This is an opportunity to join our Finance & Procurement team, which consists of 12 dedicated and social colleagues - diverse in age and backgrounds. The Finance & Procurement team is part of AM HI, Business Support, which is known for striving for excellence, openness towards innovation and focus on stakeholder relations. Collaboration is a key for our success meaning that we are successful when the site is successful.
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 please contact Associate Manager, Dennis Thorvardarson at +45 34489552
Deadline
Post will be open until finding the right candidate to fill in the role.
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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.