Associate Director of Financial Insights

2 days ago


Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States BioSpace, Inc. Full time
About the Role

The Associate Director of Financial Insights will play a crucial role in providing critical insights on Novo Nordisk, Inc. (NNI) & North America Operations (NAO) performance from a consolidated P&L perspective. This includes regular reporting to senior stakeholders in NAO and HQ, proactive monitoring of financial impact and market dynamics.

This role is responsible for driving and coordinating key strategic processes in finance and owning consolidation across NAO. Key processes include but are not limited to the Anchor Budget, Rolling Estimate, quarterly and yearly closing, BRM meetings etc.

The Associate Director of Financial Insights will drive process improvements and operational efficiency while supporting the organization's financial analysis and resource allocation. This role is pivotal in delivering insights for informed decision making and ensuring effective and simple communication of complex situations to senior management in NNI as well as HQ.

Key Responsibilities

• Together with Senior Director of NNI Sales reporting and NAO FP&A, overall responsible for ownership of managing North American P&L, ongoing operations/reporting, and oversight of strategic projects. Drives transparency and simplicity to empower decisions regarding budget, realization and potential investment options.

• Routinely communicates on overall financial performance of NNI 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.

• Sets direction and leads strategic processes.

• The NNI Anchor Budget process by managing the overall timeline and deliverables to enable consolidation of the NNI and NAO P&L. Partner closely with commercial business partners, G2N, and volume forecast teams to understand and incorporate demand trends, business risks and opportunities into the overall story.

• Coordination of story and material for e.g. BRM, HQ/NAO Finance to Finance meetings.

• 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.

• Coaches and develops other team members to ensure sharing of knowledge, involvement and engagement to support best possible organization business partnering.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree within Finance, Business Administration or similar required and MBA preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in financial management, reporting or business partnering, preferably with people management/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.

About Novo Nordisk

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 This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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