Senior Development Manager - GO Finance

Senior Development Manager – Centre of Excellence Global Operation Finance. Would you like to embark on a journey of defining and shaping our Global Operations (GO) Finance Development activities? This is a unique opportunity to drive impactful change, with significant creative freedom and exposure across global functions—while creating value through improved financial and performance processes. Global Operations Finance is responsible for the financial management of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Distribution, Quality, Procurement and Facility. Global Operations Finance works closely together with the Global Operations leadership team and plays a key role in setting the performance agenda for Global Operations and ensuring a satisfactory financial performance. You will join an ambitious, passionate, and high-performing team focused on delivering high-quality financial processes, accurate forecasts, and actionable performance insights. The team is based across Humlebæk, our Business Support Center in Poland, and finance teams at manufacturing sites globally. The position includes some travel to manufacturing locations. As part of our ambitious journey to strengthen Global Operations Finance, we are looking for a profile who can drive process standardization, digitalization, and analytics capabilities across the organization. A key part of this will be to lead and facilitate structured process mapping and redesign initiatives, ensuring clear end-to-end process understanding, identification of improvement opportunities, and anchoring of scalable, efficient ways of working. You will play a key role in bringing this ambition to life by working closely with colleagues across the newly established Centre of Excellence (CoE) and leading a portfolio of development projects. Initiatives will include process standardization, ownership of development roadmap, gathering business requirements, adoption planning as well as and continuous development of our performance management capabilities. You will work cross-geographically/functionally with our teams at manufacturing sites and two GO Finance teams located in Denmark and Poland.

Responsibilities

Drive process standardization, digitalization, and analytics capabilities across the organization; Lead a portfolio of development projects; Drive development initiatives within Global Operations Finance (with focus on Manufacturing); Lead and independently execute selected improvement projects; Facilitate cross-functional process mapping workshops to document current (“as-is”) processes and design future (“to-be”) optimized processes; Drive process improvement and standardization initiatives based on identified gaps, inefficiencies, and best practices; Build and manage a strong cross-functional stakeholder network; Collaborate closely with IT, Finance, and Global Operations; Translate business requirements into scalable solutions; Plan and drive adoption and change across diverse stakeholder groups and ensure realization; Strengthen data foundations to support value creation; Support global FP&A reporting processes

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of working experience from a finance position; Solid understanding of operational finance; Experience participating or leading global projects; Enjoy planning and organizing people around a given target; Proven knowledge of process mapping and continuous improvement mindset; Strong analytical mindset; Ability to structure, prioritize and plan complex problems or processes; Numerical skills; Interest and knowledge in the use of Excel; Ability to work with BI; Business oriented; Focus on reaching great results with informal team and colleagues; Flawless written and spoken English; Comfortable working on large projects in complex setups; Able to simplify structures; Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; Great people skills to build sound relationships and create buy-in and followship across teams and borders; Experience in change management; Business development experience

Nice to have

Experience from a global manufacturing company; Power BI