At Novo Nordisk, we are driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic conditions. Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 42,000 people in 77 countries and markets its products in more than 165 countries Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 42,000 people in 77 countries and markets its products in more than 165 countries.
Summary
Do you want to use your strong business understanding and vast experience on exciting financial and commercial challenges? Do you enjoy and have experience with independently driving projects to identify business opportunities to improve financial performance? Are you looking forward to take your career to the next level and give your career a new direction? If yes, then you may be the motivated and self-driven Finance Partner Novo Nordisk is looking for in Nairobi, Kenya.
About The Department
Novo Nordisk Middle Africa Affiliate consists of 49 countries. The Middle Africa management team is based in Nairobi, Kenya and the business operations are regionally managed through our offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Abidjan, and Dakar. We have a well-established presence in Africa and our focus today is to improve access to care for patients with diabetes in Middle Africa and to support people living with diabetes while of course sustaining a strong business growth.
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.
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