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Manager - North America Operations FP&A

Employer
Novo Nordisk
Location
Plainsboro, NJ
Start date
Oct 3, 2024
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About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

 

The Position

The purpose of the role is to provide crucial insights on Novo Nordisk, Inc. (NNI) & North America Operations (NAO) performance from a consolidated P&L perspective, including regular reporting to senior stakeholders in NAO and HQ, proactive monitoring of financial impact and market dynamics.

 

Additionally, this role is responsible for business partnering for Novo Nordisk Canada (NNCI), understanding and challenging financial management, investments, risks and opportunities.

The role will take part in driving and coordinating key strategic processes in finance and consolidation across NAO. Key processes include but are not limited to the Anchor Budget, Rolling Estimate, quarterly and yearly closing, BRM meetings etc.

 

The role is accountable for participating in multiple relationships across NNI, NAO and globally and initiatives to ensure effective delivery of all functional and departmental milestones. The FM must have a mindset of continuous improvements and should identify and implement key process improvements as needed. The FM drives projects to ensure further standardization, use of digitalization and implementation of best practices.

 

Relationships

Reports to the Senior Director of Sales Reporting and NAO FP&A. Interacts with all levels of the business and partners heavily across Finance and Supply Chain and with NNCI and global stakeholders.

 

Essential Functions

  • Together with Sr Director of NNI Sales reporting and NAO FP&A, overall responsible for ownership of managing North American P&L, ongoing operations/reporting. Drives transparency and simplicity to empower decisions regarding budget, realization and potential investment options
  • Routinely communicates on overall financial performance of NNCI and NAO with focus on linking sales and costs, the overall story and key opportunities and challenges, using appropriate metrics, analysis and reports
  • Brings recommendations and strategic implications to leaders in Finance and Supply Chain to enable consolidation and broader communication of key messages. Frequently interacts with senior leadership on the financial performance
  • Together with team support the overall NAO P&L consolidation process, follow-up and reporting on realization on monthly, quarterly and annual basis. This includes close alignment, challenge and support of input from Business Finance, G2N and volume forecast team to ensure solid financial analysis and forecasts at all times
  • On behalf of Finance & Supply Chain, independently drives key projects related to finance processes, standardization, use of digital tools etc. with the aim to enable more focus creating insights for better short- and long-term decision making and business performance
  • Drives Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency in relation to financial processes. Continuously evaluate opportunities to optimize in order to deliver the results in the most effective way. Ensure close cross-functional collaboration within NNI and towards the broader NN organization including IO and HQ to ensure use of best practices for financial management, analysis and forecasting
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    Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree within Finance, Business Administration or similar required and MBA preferred
  • Minimum 5 years in financial management, reporting and business partnering preferably with project management experience. Experience from the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage. Relevant experience may be substituted for degree, when appropriate; advanced degree preferred
  • Strong focus on process management, optimization, and structured workflows with high level of proactivity, energy, and ability to drive and complete projects. Must utilize time effectively and set priorities to manage multiple projects with time sensitive deadlines
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills with ability to influence stakeholders across the organization. Must be able to understand and define stakeholder needs and translate these needs into clear actions by also utilizing strong understanding of the market
  • Ambitious mindset with a continuous improvement approach and a desire to simplify the way we operate and generate new ideas. Strong ability to condense complicated data to key messages and recommendations
  • High level of independence, integrity, and accountability
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    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.

     

    Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

     

    If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

    Company

    Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 54,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. For more information visit novonordisk.com.

    Our US Research & Development hub, located in the Greater Boston area, brings together the best talent to drive life science innovation. Located in Lexington, Watertown and Cambridge, our teams reflect the full scope of R&D, from early research through late-stage clinical development. We are building for the future by creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. By combining the speed and agility of biotech with the quality, resources, and stability of a large pharmaceutical company, our US R&D hub will benefit from the best of both worlds to develop new medicines that meet the needs of patients.

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    75 Hayden Avenue
    Lexington
    MA
    02421
    United States

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