Do you have the drive to create value as a strategic finance business partner, driving the budget process, monitoring Oceania’s financial performance, as well as the passion for leading corrective actions to ensure targets are met? Novo Nordisk Oceania has opened a role for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager. If this is you, we invite you to join our team. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

 

About the department
You will be part of Novo Nordisk Oceania, covering Australia and New Zealand. Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has equipped us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 64,000 people in 80 countries and markets our products in more than 170 countries. Join a dynamic and collaborative team devoted to making a difference.
The role will be reporting to the Vice President of Finance & Operations (F&O) of Novo Nordisk Oceania.

 

The position
As a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, you will be a people manager and create value as a true finance business partner to key stakeholders, as well as with the business. Other role expectations are as follows but is not limited to:

Lead the FP&A function and team members to become an integral part of the commercial business and a close sparring partner to the full affiliate management team. Act as a key driver of the financial planning processes including responsibility of coordinating, preparing, consolidating, validating, challenging and analysing input, participation in budget meetings with management and region Ongoing monitoring and analysis of the total Oceania financial business performance as well as proactively to propose / initiate and follow-up on appropriate corrective actions to ensure targets are met. In-charge of all internal monthly and quarterly financial reporting, including MMR, Performance updates, monthly budget follow up with Line of Business. Conduct ad-hoc financial analyses to drive ROI and strong resource allocation across the business. Drive, as well as participate in cross functional projects within F&O (local and region APAC) and as finance partner supporting cross functional commercial and/or special projects beyond F&O. You are also expected to be a systems expert in with regards to SAP BW, Excel, and other digital BI tools.

 

Qualifications

Must possess at least a master degree or equivalent level in business, finance or economics. Must have a minimum of 7-8 years of experience within financial planning roles, including ownership of planning processes and senior stakeholder management. Minimum of 3 years of people management experience is also expected. Strong background in ERP tools, understanding of accounting principles, and extensive experience with analytical tasks. Mastery of numbers, business reporting, advanced Excel skills, and proficiency in ERP and data warehouse systems. Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills with fluency in English at a business level.

 

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can live a life of chronic disease.

 

Contact
Please send your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

 

Deadline
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. First Nations peoples are encouraged to apply.

 

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.

 

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