Senior Investment Finance Partner

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business mind-set in supporting Novo Nordisk ambitious production capacity expansion strategy? Are you ready to take on diverse responsibilities from investment portfolio controlling to financial reporting and process optimisation?

Then this is a great opportunity for you to join us in Emerging Technologies (ET) Finance and contribute to shaping the future of one of the fastest growing and global areas in Novo Nordisk's value chain. Apply now

In this exciting role, you will collaborate with the line of business and management in ET to translate capacity expansion plans from concepts into reality, delivering tangible impact for the business. Your primary focus will involve consolidating and managing the investment portfolio from a financial point of view, which includes overseeing partnerships with production sites across Denmark, Ireland & the US, including newly acquired sites. You will be responsible for driving strategic initiatives, managing budgets, and ensuring efficient resource allocation to drive successful project execution. You will be:

1. Driving the investment budget and reporting processes with a focus on resource allocation and budget accuracy.
2. Acting as a trusted business partner and overseeing the supported areas.
3. Collaborating closely with ambitious and talented stakeholders with both financial and non-financial backgrounds.
4. Initiating and managing optimisation projects and tools to enhance investment discipline across all ET.

The position is based in Taastrup.

To succeed in this role, you need to:

1. Have a Master's degree within Finance, Economics, Accounting or related discipline and experience working in finance roles at larger organisations.
2. Previous experience in a similar business finance or investment management function.
3. Demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills, good communication and presentation skills and an ability to serve as a trusted business partner.
4. Exhibit a process-oriented mindset, displaying interest in mapping, streamlining, and optimising processes.
5. Possess solid experience with the Microsoft Office package, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Experience within SAP or portfolio management tools is preferred but not a requirement.

It would be considered an advantage if you possess prior project partnering experience.

As a person, you embody a proactive and high-performing approach, continually striving to learn and achieve ambitious goals. Your structured and analytical mindset enables you to maintain an overview, while your self-motivating nature propels you forward. You exhibit timely and thorough attention to detail, complemented by strong networking, interpersonal, and follow-up skills that contribute to task success. With a 'can do' mindset, you demonstrate courage and do not shy away from improving processes, recognizing opportunities for optimisations. Additionally, you drive tasks and projects forward independently and thrive in a flexible, fast-paced, and multicultural environment and showcase proficiency in both written and verbal English.

You will report to the Head of Finance and be a part of the Investment track, focusing on developing and driving financial management within investments.

You will be part of a team of circa 10 employees where we value purpose, responsibility and proactiveness, and we treasure our open, informal, and trustful team culture. We focus on continuously improving individual and team competencies with a clear focus of people development.

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. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 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. Join us Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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.