Finance and Business Analysis Director

Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for driving business growth? Are you motivated by advising and supporting key stakeholders to make sound decisions? If yes, you are the Finance and Business Analysis Director we are looking for to join our team and oversee the biggest Business Unit in Novo Nordisk Japan. Read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. The Diabetes Business Unit at Novo Nordisk is a highly motivated team of professionals who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of people with diabetes. We work closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive innovation and change in the diabetes industry. 
Our organization has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence.

The position
As a Finance and Business Analysis Director, you will drive financial planning and analysis in Diabetes Business Unit (DBU) for both short and long-term success of DBU. You will support CVP, DBU Management to make sound decisions by providing data and insights including customer data which consists of more than 10,000 customers. The analysis will lead to make the decision on business strategy and how to lead Sales team to maximize the business result. You will also work closely with DBU management, marketing team, finance, and Business Intelligence & Customer Excellence team.  
Other tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Analyse latest business situation by utilizing and integrating all available data source (inhouse / primary / secondary) to generate customer insight and provide recommendation to business strategy & tactics.
• Analyse Sales Activity data through Sales Management portal and explore what is working and what is not working from the Annual Strategy and make a recommendation. Prepare analysis, commentary and presentation material for financial reviews and reports.
• Through periodical competitor analysis, provide insights to the DBU team and leverage the findings to revise the current strategy and formulate the future strategy.
• Collect information and purchase effective secondary/primary data source, develop advanced analytics, and install software to accelerate enhancement of internal analytic capability.
• Support DBU for the Budget planning of Anchor Budget (AB) and Rolling Estimates (RE). Occasionally act as a Finance partnering for CVP, Diabetes BU Management by helping with the budget planning, tracking, and decision making.

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business planning or business controlling, management reporting, Market insights generation and Business analysis.
• Experience in Finance Planning & Analysis (CPA/MPA), data and related data analytics, big data analytics (10,000+ database) are highly preferred.
• Experience in Business Intelligence tools such as OCE, SFDC, Power BI, Qliksense, or Tableau is considered as an advantage.
• Fluency in Japanese and business-level English is required.

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
Please upload your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). 
 
Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.

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 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.
 
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