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Senior Finance Business Partner, R&D Finance

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Valby • Denmark

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Partner with R&D Global Project Teams as “financial advisor”, drive financial planning, reporting and performance management for several pipeline molecule/projects.
  • Accountable for deliverables related to these R&D projects, ensure quality of deliverables.
  • Drive analyses relevant to up-coming decisions with the project team, enabling quality project and portfolio decision making.
  • Prepare management presentations related to deliverables and present them to governance and executive management.
  • Responsible for target setting, quarterly estimates and other recurrent processes for specific molecules.
  • Drive generation of insights; regularly as well linked to decisions looking at implications both project and portfolio level.
  • Develop and participate in improvement and optimization initiatives in Group Finance, R&D and beyond.

Requirements

  • A relevant master's degree (economics, business, finance or similar) and 8+ years' experience in R&D and/or R&D finance and/or portfolio analysis and management, ideally within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
  • Experience and interest in decision making in R&D, with the ability to “bilingually translate” R&D terms into financials and vice versa.
  • Comfortable in an environment where R&D expects business-oriented finance support, and valuable/actionable insights.
  • Experience with using/making valuations (i.e. probability weighted NPV modelling), evaluating strategic options, and ideally exposure to portfolio management.
  • Experience with financial planning and performance management, knowledge about finance/accounting and accruals.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to collaborate transversally.
  • Ability to work independently with a critical sense, an analytical mindset and ability to communicate at a 30.000 feet view or go into details as needed.
  • Strategic mindset and problem-solving capabilities to drive continuous improvement.
  • Experience with planning systems (e.g. Plainsware) is an advantage.
  • Experienced MS Office user.
  • Ability to manage a periodically variable workload (e.g. linked to key project decisions, portfolio review, or closing of the budget).
  • Fluent in written and spoken English.
Benefits
  • Inspiring workplace
  • Passionate colleagues
  • Culture characterized as collaborative
  • Development opportunities
  • Initiatives focused on wellbeing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial planningperformance managementportfolio analysisvaluationprobability weighted NPV modellingfinance/accountingaccrualsstrategic options evaluationdecision making
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcollaborationindependent workanalytical mindsetcommunicationstrategic mindsetproblem-solvingcritical sense