Do you have the expertise to drive financial performance by overseeing budgeting, reporting, and analysis processes, ensuring plans reflect the latest insights on risks and opportunities. Novo Nordisk Oceania has opened a role for a Senior Financial Planning Analyst. 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 Financial Planning and Analysis Manager of Novo Nordisk Oceania.

 

The position
As the Senior Financial Planning Analyst, you will deliver value by monitoring Oceania business performance, ensuring plans reflect latest thinking on risks and opportunities, act as finance partner to key stakeholders and support resource allocation focus. Other role expectations are as follows but is not limited to:

Budgeting: The role involves coordinating internal timelines for Anchor Budget (AB) and Rolling Estimate (RE) to ensure an efficient process for collecting inputs and submitting them on time to the Regional office. It requires ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and alignment of system submissions with agreed assumptions, funding arrangements, and required details. Additionally, the role supports and challenges Business Insights team and Commercial stakeholders in sales and market share/growth planning, while also coordinating and validating pricing inputs from the Pricing team, with a clear understanding of the assumptions and their impact on reported sales. Reporting and Analysis: The role involves ongoing monitoring and analysis of Oceania's financial business performance, proactively proposing corrective actions to ensure targets are achieved. It includes analyzing the dynamics of sales channels, such as stock levels and monthly phasing, to assess their impact on sales estimates. Close collaboration with the Business insights team is essential to understand market dynamics and their implications on NN sales performance. Additionally, the role requires expertise in systems like SAP BW, Excel, Power BI and other digital BI tools. Value Creation: The role also focuses on promoting a strong ROI mindset and efficient resource allocation across the business through analysis in ad-hoc tasks, business cases, and annual processes. It also drives process improvements in planning and reporting, while enhancing the use of digital tools within the affiliate.

 

Qualifications

Must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or any related field. Minimum of 3 years of experience in financial analysis, commercial acumen and ability to collaborate across functions. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel. Experienced in business reporting. Experienced user of SAP BW and FI modules is desirable. Fluent English communication skills required.

 

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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