Finance Manager, Thorning - Kjellerup, Danmark - Danish Crown

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11/01/2024

DNK-Thorning

Finance Manager, Thorning

Are you up for making a real impact in our finance transformation where things are never business as usual? And do you want to have direct impact on business decisions and bring your business understanding into play? Then you might be our new Finance Manager

Danish Crown is currently going through a Finance Transformation, shifting from a historical and transactional approach to a more forward-looking one. We are implementing a united performance model which enables us to measure and compare profitability across the entire value chain using harmonized performance metrics to make data driven decisions and capitalize synergies. This will strengthen the collaboration, transparency, and increase business strategy and performance among Danish Crown. Your role as finance business partner will be to drive the transformation/change management agenda within your area and making it live in the organization.

You will be part of our newly formed performance management department in Danish Crown Business Unit. The newly established performance management teams cover all aspects of our value chain from finance, sales, production, sustainability, member services, CAPEX, and logistics. Our success is to connect financial and business knowledge to drive value creation adding insights to the strategic agenda in each business areas.

Demonstrate business expertise and act as a trusted finance partner
You will be heading up finance at our production sites in Thorning & Låsby and your overall responsibility will be to act as finance business partner/finance manager to the local production management in Danish Crown. You take the lead in all operational and performance driven topics related to production. You are an equal member of the leadership team on site where you support, challenge the business, and use your business understanding to secure production excellence & create growth. Thorning is one of Europe's leading specialists in the production of pepperoni for the B2B sector.

Your tasks will amongst other include:

• Act as a trusted local finance partner for the site manager in Thorning & Låsby

• Secure financial transparency in all our processes and secure company standards are implemented locally.

• You will drive the performance management agenda by supporting and challenging local management stakeholders on topics like variances, conversion costs, OEE, Fixed Cost, CAPEX, production complexity, Business Cases, budget/forecast assumptions, and general operational decisions.

• Day-to-day operations of weekly/monthly accounts & operational controlling.

• General accounting and cost analysis to secure continuous cost savings.

• Drive Financial Planning Processes (Budget & Forecast) and secure the interlink to our commercial agenda.

• Defining and maintenance of business processes and procedures

• Management of 1 employee

Relationship-focused profile with strong business understanding
We expect you to have a track record within finance in a production setup. You are known for you financial expertise among your stakeholders where you bring your business understanding into play. You are able to bring various standpoints to discussion without losing integrity and create value adding insight to drive and support decisions. You must be ready to build a new financial footing as several manual processes need to be standardized. Therefore, a success criteria in this role is to build a strong financial foundation with full transparency in order to create and maintain good relations among key stakeholders and take the lead in difficult and complex matters.

Moreover, you;

• have a master within finance, HD or similar

• at least 2-3 years of experience in a finance manager or other similar role within finance.

• are critically evaluating information, generating solutions, and using facts, logic, and experience to support decisions.

• strong financial toolbox with core financial process experience and expertise

• have a proven ability to navigate complexity, both in terms of factory footprint and topics.

• are fluent in English and Danish, both spoken and written, is essential.

What do we offer? Glad that you asked
We provide an opportunity for a role with extensive and diverse interactions, offering you the chance to contribute to the ongoing business development at Danish Crown while ensuring financial transparency in operational follow-ups. The factory is currently undergoing a significant transformation, where the finance function plays a central role, particularly in ensuring a correct, data-driven decision-making foundation. You will encounter a dynamic and fast-paced daily routine, engaging with numerous stakeholders across various levels within the organization. For the right candidate, there is a great opportunity for development and challenges on both the short and the long run.