Senior Financial Controller

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

Our new Petersburg, Virginia site marks a strategic move to advance our capabilities in Emerging Technologies (ET) within Chemical API development and production. The highly experienced site is designed to strengthen and accelerate our Small Molecule (SMOL) strategy while amplifying our operational capacity. This is to safeguard and support ET´s SMOL projects in the coming years, aligning with our vision and strengthening our potential for growth and innovation.

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 14 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition Assistance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

Provide the site with information and business analysis to support decision processes and follow-up on identified matters. Responsible for implementing internal controls to ensure financial compliance and correct reporting. Continuously improve controlling and business information processes, drive financial planning and optimization, align finance processes and practices to NN best practices and compliance. Drive finance processes to ensure resource allocation aligns with strategic goals for the site.

Reports to Senior Manager or Director.

• Implement and perform financial review, controlling and business analysis for the site
• Ensure that financial accounting and controlling is within local legal and corporate requirements at all times
• Prepare monthly management report (MMR) for the site
• Provide financial information & analysis to support decision making processes
• Ensure high quality, granulated, periodized and risk-based AB/RE, based on a solid, data driven process in close dialogue with management
• Site responsible for capacity cost and investment budget
• Act as SAP super user
• Oversee financial internal controls for the site
• Prepare, implement & perform key cost accounting processes/methods/activities/improvements
• Ensure correct postings of relevant cost transactions as well as responsible for all reporting as part of month-end and year-end closing
• Perform variance analysis
• Develop tools to improve costing transparency and implement FP&A processes for the site
• Serve as the Financial Partner for the business unit to provide business insight & create continuous business value
• Responsible for planning and executing financial processes to include budget processes and other reporting as required from central finance team
• Prepare & deliver timely, well-organized & informative financial data
• Responsible for financial systems, as assigned
• Participate in & support project work related to accounting & finance
• Provide training, support, assistance & back-up to other accounting & finance processes
• Follow all safety and environmental requirements in the performance of duties
• Other duties, as…