Finance Partner, Middle Africa at Novo Nordisk

The Position

Your main responsibilities as Finance Partner will be to own and drive the financial management of the Middle Africa affiliate. You will be fully responsible for financial planning of our P&L in budget cycles and for ongoing monthly reporting on actual performance.

Importantly you will be identifying opportunities to improve our financial performance and mitigate our business risks and for ensuring we utilise the vast commercial opportunities existing across our wide geography.

You will also act as a sparring partner both to the Head of Finance and Operations and to the rest of Middle Africa Management to ensure we continuously improve our business performance and decision making.

Qualifications

You hold a bachelor’s degree, Business Administration/Economics/Finance is preferred, or preferably a master’s degree in relevant field, with 3-5 years of experience in business information, financial planning and analysis, and/or management consulting.

You are well advanced in managing a complex P&L and controlling both sales, cost and the impact from balance sheet positions. It is an advantage if you have experience from working in a multi-country setting and with project management involving senior stakeholders.

You have strong stakeholder engagement, communication and presentation skills, are able to provide recommendations despite uncertainty and pressure, and able to handle and simplify complexity. You are good at prioritising, have strong analytical skills and are fluent in oral and written English. You are a team player, but at the same time possess independent drive, and have a can-do mindset.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we use our skills, dedication and ambition to help people with diabetes. We offer the chance to be part of a truly global work place, where passion and engagement are met with opportunities for professional and personal development. We have an open and engaging working environment and a strong engaging company culture.

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.