Are you looking for the opportunity to make our patients’ lives better and leave your footprint in developing Novo Nordisk filling plant in Russia? Do you want to learn the latest business process improvements ideas and approaches and further develop your skills in that? Then you might be interested in taking up the position of the Business Controller at our Local Manufacturing Kaluga site.

Our history in Russia can be traced to 1924 and with completed in 2018 expansion of our greenfield and wholly owned modern insulin manufacturing facility in Kaluga now we are proud more than ever of our commitment to Changing Diabetes® for the 10 million people with diabetes in Russia.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 95 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 45,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 169 countries.

The position

This is a permanent position.

Business Controller is acting as a finance partner to the business, driving and executing the key finance processes at our Kaluga production site: budgeting, manning planning, reporting, period-end closing, invoices execution.

In the role of Business Controller, you will consolidate finance data, drive budget and manning plans discussions with the departments, prepare budget submission. You will prepare monthly management reports, analyze the trends and business drivers of deviations. You will be required to interpretate the finance figures to create the business insights and help the managers to take the data-driven decisions. In this position you will need to manage relationships with internal stakeholders and customers (including Site Vice President, Managers, Process Owners and others) to ensure alignment of expectations and key initiatives, maximization of value delivered, and continuous improvement. As for the external stakeholders - you will be a part of the global finance community and will be expected to actively interact with your peers across the globe to share knowledge and best practices as well as to take part in the global initiatives.

You will apply your professional skills, as well as coaching and facilitation capabilities, spending your time with the management close to the processes to help the business continuously meet strategic and operational goals and needs through finance perspective. Provide leadership and coordination of the improvement projects within LMK. Effectively coordinate these projects with all the parties involved.

Qualifications

To make it a success you need to have a Higher Finance education. It is required to have minimum 3 years of experience in financial controlling at production site in a multinational company.

You have strong stakeholders management, presentation and communication skills. You are proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, SAP. English is required, both verbal and written, in at least Upper-Intermediate level.

About the department

You will be a member of our Business Support team at the Local Manufacturing Kaluga site working with the team of highly professional and engaged employees. You will be working on the cross-functional and international level.

In LMK, we are sustaining a modern insulin production and the processes in scope are formulation, filling, inspection, assembly and packaging. The site has started the delivery of the packed product to the Russian market in February 2015 and launched the aseptic production and assembly into the operations in 2018.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk we recognise 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 the communities we operate in.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We are happy to discuss flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs.