Senior Project Controller

Are you an experienced project controller with a track record in monitoring and managing project progress, risk assessments and finances, communicating these to senior stakeholders and collaborating with diverse business areas and stakeholders?

Are you ready to take on a key role in the planning, risk managing and cost controlling for some of Novo Nordisk’s most important strategic projects? If yes, then you are the Senior Project Controller we are looking for!

Apply today and start your life-changing career! We give a high level of responsibility from day one and you will experience a continuous steep learning curve, where your aspirations set the boundaries.

The position

As a Senior Project Controller, your key responsibilities, amongst others, will include: 

• Driving and implementing Project controls framework in the projects.
• Manage and overseeing the financial and operational aspects of projects.
• Monitoring project progress through continuously tracking projects and provide actionable insights to project managers to ensure they meet deadlines and remain within budget.
• Manage commitment management process in collaboration with Procurement.
• Responsible to consolidate input from controllers and accountants for month end deliveries and deadlines.
• Monthly reporting delivered to senior leaders’ level to support and enable fast, compliant and data driven decisions.
• Implement, conduct, and maintain regular review meetings with project managers, work package owners and external vendors/suppliers. 
• Dive into financial data, risk assessments to uncover trends and variances, providing valuable insights for informed decision-making.
• Perform in-depth variance analysis to identify and explain discrepancies between forecasts, spend, and earned value.
• Support Project Managers and line managers with creating easy-to-understand presentations and reports for various meetings.

Qualifications

At Novo Nordisk, we appreciate no two people share similar experiences, however the ideal person will have all or most of the following:

• A degree in Finance, Business Administration, Project Management or similar.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in large investment projects as Project Controller.
• Track record of working with project management methodologies. 
• Track record and solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, risk management and financial reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Fluency in both written and verbal English. Proficiency in Danish is an advantage.

As a person, you will be self-motivated with a collaborative nature, enabling you to work with diverse teams, fostering an environment of shared success. You’ll possess the ability to set clear direction, guiding projects towards success, while speaking with confidence to influence and inspire others towards achieving common goals.

About The Department

CFa 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 organisation.

The CFa Strategy team is part of Corporate Facilities, 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. Anchored in the EVP area, Finance, Legal and Global Solutions, we create tangible business results by partnering with all areas of the business. What we do impacts all Novo Nordisk’s Danish colleagues.

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 Alexander Bradley at AFBD@novonordisk.com or call on +45 34486797

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 communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.