Manager - North America Operations FP&A

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 cros