Director, Finance

If you are motivated by responsibility and a varied working day within financial controlling where management, driving the budgeting and reporting processes, and legislation are key elements? Then this exciting and developing position as Director, Finance & Accounting might be the right match for you

As Director, Finance & Accounting you will have direct reference to the CFO in Danish Crown Beef, René Røjkjær Larsen. Your part of the organization consists of four finance employees.
You will obtain great insight regarding the many processes combined with having a broad contact surface in the organization. The Financial Controlling department is a natural focal point in Beef and therefore you will have daily interaction and collaboration with many stakeholders in Beef as well as in Danish Crown and externally.

You will play an important role in defining and executing on our finance strategy and transformation.
Therefore, you will among others be responsible for creating more transparency through standardization and automation, valid KPI's, and relevant business insights.

Provide guidance to the business and people
You will have different areas of responsibility, including finance reporting and budgeting, yearly accounts, legal compliance, and people management.

As a result, your tasks are diverse and includes, among other things, the following:

1. Ensuring the budgeting and reporting processes for the Danish Beef sites
2. Validation of reporting from finance employees
3. Rolling 12 months forecast in connection to budgeting
4. Strategy calculations
5. Point of contact for Global Business Services
6. Take part in screening and selection of IT solution and stakeholders
7. Follow up on Beef's legal compliancy with finance and administration

People oriented with financial and management experience
Broad experience and interest within finance, processes, people, and business is required to succeed in this position. Ideally, your experience comes from a production organization. You have management experience from a finance department and thus have vocational competencies. You have solid IT competencies and solid communication skills. By the end for the day, your passion, motivation, and desire to learn new things is more important than how many years of experience you have.

As a person you are patient, empathic, and are capable of cooperating across functions. You are used to operating in an international environment with a multitude of stakeholders. You understand the importance of hearing different perspectives on complex issues, and you take the necessary time to involve stakeholders. It is necessary that you can communicate effectively both verbally and written in English.

What do we offer? Glad that you asked
An exciting and versatile role where human beings and numbers are in focus while having the will to make a difference in the organization. We have a 'We can – we will' culture and that you will be part of and an ambassador for. Our vision is to deliver a net zero production in 2050 and with that follows initiatives, development, innovation, and collaboration.

We are one team
You will get four close colleagues who are all passionate about their work. We have lots of tasks to tackle every day, but nothing prevents us from having fun while we solve the tasks.
At Danish Crown offer freedom under responsibility and thus plenty of freedom to plan your own working hours and working day.
We don't just talk about work life balance at Danish Crown, we live it.

Appetit for more?
If you have any questions regarding the position, you can contact VP CFO Beef, René Røjkjær Larsen on mobile +45 6116 5582.

Send your CV and application as soon as possible and no later than September 8th 2024 as we continuously assess the received applications.

We hope you can join us as soon as possible, but we'll wait for the right candidate.

We look forward to hearing from you

We are a global food company with DKK 67bn in revenue and more than 23,000 colleagues. Danish Crown is owned by Danish farmers supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers worldwide. We have a vision of being net zero in 2050 and an ambitious agenda for better food and a brighter future.