Finance Manager Novo Nordisk Clinical Innovation Centre A/S

Do you want to take full ownership of financial stewardship in a highly regulated clinical environment? Join Novo Nordisk Clinical Innovation Centre (CLINiC) and play a key role in enabling transparent decision-making and ensuring audit-ready excellence. This is a unique opportunity to operate as the single finance lead in a lean and agile organisation.

Your new role

As Finance Manager, you will hold end-to-end responsibility for financial stewardship in CLINiC, acting as the central finance partner across operations, shared services, and headquarters. Working in a lean owner/approver model, you will ensure that all finance processes are robust, compliant, and deliver decision-quality insights. Global Business Service Centre in Bangalore India will execute on operational tasks (e.g., subledger/GL Processing, reconciliations, invoice runs) while you review, challenge and approve outputs, ensuring full audit-ready trail.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving end-to-end financial processes, including planning, forecasting, reporting, and period-end close, ensuring audit readiness and compliance
• Providing clear financial insights to support decision-making, translating operational activities into financial impacts for leadership
• Overseeing billing and cost-plus revenue recognition, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and strong governance
• Managing tax, treasury, and intercompany processes, securing compliance across VAT, transfer pricing, and corporate income tax
• Strengthening internal controls, systems governance, and process optimisation in collaboration with global shared services

In this role, you will act as the single point of accountability for finance in CLINiC and ensure that processes and outputs function effectively end-to-end in a complex stakeholder landscape.

Your role is not limited to reviewing outputs, but also to ensuring that underlying transactions, posting, and processes function correctly end-to- end.

Your role covers the full finance taxonomy and key processes including, Plan to Perform (FP&A) Quote to Cash, Source to Pay, Record to Report, Acquire to Retire, Tax, Treasury & Intercompany, System, Controls & Payroll oversight. Etc.

Your new department

Novo Nordisk Clinical Innovation Centre A/S (CLINiC) is a newly established organisation located in Gentofte, Denmark, dedicated to conducting early-phase clinical trials. With a strong focus on agility and innovation, CLINiC plays a critical role in assessing the safety and efficacy of new treatments.

As Finance Manager, you will be part of a lean setup with no direct reports, collaborating closely with global stakeholders including shared service centres, finance specialists, and operational teams. You will serve as the key finance partner across CLINiC, enabling strong governance and supporting business performance through financial insight and control.

Your skills and qualifications

We are looking for a finance professional who thrives in a high-accountability role and can operate independently while navigating a complex stakeholder environment.

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• A relevant degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar, combined with solid experience in accounting and financial management
• Proven experience with financial processes such as period-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
• Strong knowledge of tax and compliance areas, including VAT, transfer pricing, and financial controls
• The ability to work independently with full ownership across multiple finance processes in a lean setup
• Experience working with shared service environments, systems governance, or process optimisation is an advantage

You bring a structured mindset, strong stakeholder collaboration skills, and the ability to ensure accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement across finance operations.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.
The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here

Contact:

For further information about the position, please contact CEO Poul-Martin Haahr at 45- 30754082.

Deadline

22. Juni 2026

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.