Senior Finance Controller

1 week ago


Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Novo Nordisk AS Full time

Are you an experienced financial controller with experience overseeing financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance while providing strategic insights to senior management?
As the Senior Finance Controller for Corporate Facilities, you will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations, ensuring compliance, and optimizing financial processes and reporting.
This position will play an important role in developing, establishing, and managing financial control processes from scratch. You will be responsible for overseeing departmental budgets, ensuring financial accuracy, and providing insights to support strategic decision-making.

The position
The Finance Controller will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide financial analysis, and contribute to business decision-making.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Identify financial controlling processes for Corporate Facilities (CFa).
  • Implement and operationalize the financial processes together with cross-functional teams in CFa and other parts of Novo Nordisk.
  • Lead the financial planning and budget management processes of different business areas within CFa, ensuring alignment with CFa's corporate goals and objectives.
  • Create and analyze financial data with key insights on budget performances and trends to support financial strategies and operational goals.
  • Establish and maintain key-data forecasting and analysis with identified potential risks as a foundation for business cases and decision-making.
  • Conduct internal controls to ensure compliance with Novo Nordisk policies and regulations. Oversee the timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, ensuring compliance and coordinate internal and external audits, ensuring adherence to audit requirements.
  • Participate in maintenance of the structure and related departmental financial IT controlling and planning tools.

Qualifications

We imagine that you have strong financial acumen, leadership skills, and the ability to drive continuous improvement in financial operations. Other qualifications include:

  • A degree in Finance, Economics, Business (or equivalent).
  • 5+ years' experience in financial controlling, financial analyses, accounting, and/or other finance disciplines within a corporate environment.
  • Proven track record of establishing financial processes and managing budgets from scratch.
  • Track record and solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and concisely.
  • High proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint, especially related to large data sets and reporting.
  • Fluent in English and Danish.
  • Thrive in a dynamic work environment.
  • Can bring a healthy sense of humor to your work even when the pressure is on.

About the department
CFa Strategy Project Controls & Business Support is a growing team, anchored in CFa Strategy, Corporate Facilities (CFa). The team will support investment projects and financial processes across CFa. The focus will be on developing efficient standards and processes for projects and the CFa organization.
What is Corporate Facilities?
We are a department of almost 400 employees that ensure well-functioning corporate infrastructure and a safe and engaging workplace for more than 30,000 colleagues across our Danish sites. We create tangible business results by partnering with all areas of the business, and what we do impacts all Novo Nordisk's employees in their workday. We give a high level of responsibility from day one and you will experience a continuously steep learning curve, where your own aspirations set the boundaries.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us Together, we go further. Together, we're life-changing.

Contact
For further information, please contact Alexandra Bradley on +45-34486797 or AFBD@novonordisk.com

Deadline
24-03-2025
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. Applications will be handled as they are received, so please do not hesitate to apply.

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 the communities we operate in. Together, we're life-changing.

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