Business Finance Director

Are you ready to make a lasting impact in a global leader like Novo Nordisk? As our Business Finance Director for Brazil, you will be at the forefront of driving change and delivering value by combining deep business understanding with financial expertise. In this role, you will work in close partnership with the business, supporting, enabling, and challenging strategies to unlock new opportunities for growth. Your leadership will inspire a high-performing team while fostering innovation and collaboration across the organization. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for leading transformation and empowering teams, we invite you to apply and be part of our journey.

The Position

As a Business Finance Director at Novo Nordisk, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial excellence and strategic decision-making within the Brazil affiliate. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance & Operations, you will serve as a key business partner, leveraging data-driven insights and financial expertise to create value and ensure compliance across the organization. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead financial planning processes, including Anchor Budget (AB) and Rolling Estimates (RE), ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational efficiency.
• Provide comprehensive financial insights to all departments, fostering a data-driven decision-making culture and supporting resource allocation toward growth priorities.
• Monitor and manage costs and market performance through rigorous analysis, ensuring adherence to budgets and identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Collaborate with the Finance & Operations Leadership Team (FOLT) to shape policies, strategies, and implement the digital finance agenda.
• Drive engagement and develop talent within Finance & Operations, promoting a high-performance culture and ensuring robust succession planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Extensive experience in Business Finance (FP&A) with proven ability to collaborate effectively across business functions.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a strong track record of influencing and managing teams.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Experience driving business transformation, it will be considered as an asset background within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong interpersonal skills to partner and engage with local and global management effectively.
• Ability to foster engagement, coach, and develop high-performing teams.

About the Department

You will join the Finance and Operations department of the Brazil affiliate, supporting therapeutic areas in business transformation, including diabetes, obesity, haemophilia, and growth disorders. The department encompasses Finance, IT, and Supply Chain, closely collaborating for system integrations and logistical optimisation. Our team is dynamic and committed to driving success and innovation in our operations, ensuring efficient financial management, smooth IT processes, and effective supply chain solutions.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. 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. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 69,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further.

Contact

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Deadline

Apply before 31st December, 2024.

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.