Senior Production Finance Partner

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business mind-set in supporting one of Novo Nordisk oral production sites and emerging technologies? Are you ready to step into a production partner role, setting the direction for our finance responsibilities related to compliance and product costing as well as effectively communicating your results?

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. Red mor and apply now!

The position

In this exciting role, you will collaborate with the line of business in ETs oral production site in Denmark and with the finance teams across the full area. You will be:

• Driving the planning and reporting of raw material consumption, raw material deviations and inventory.
• Ensure product costing, unit cost and associated processes are met with high quality, including that cost allocations across ET reflect business activity.
• Acting as a trusted business partner for production accounting related activities.
• Upholding financial compliance and ensuring house in order by aligning accounting treatment and cost classifications with the global finance team.
• Taking ownership of the complete SAP standard costing model, focusing on finance master data, budgeting, actual costs, and ensuring accurate allocations across the full ET area.

The position is based in Taastrup.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you need to:

• Hold a Master’s degree within Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related discipline.
• Have experience working in a finance role at larger organisations covering production in the pharmaceutical or other highly regulated industry.
• Exhibit a process-oriented mindset, displaying interest in mapping, streamlining, and optimizing processes.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills, good communication and presentation skills and an ability to serve as a trusted business partner.
• Possess solid experience with the Microsoft Office package, particularly Excel, along with ERP systems, preferably SAP.

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, 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.

About the department

You will report to the Head of Finance and be a part of the production accounting finance track, which includes one current production finance partner. You will be part of a finance team of 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.

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. 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.

Contact

For more information, please contact Senior Finance Partner, Simon Aarup Fjordvald, at USMU@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

30 March 2025.

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.