Senior Business Partner for Sales

Would you like to be the financial business partner of our Sales division, providing key insight to our senior management?

Join us and become Senior Business Partner in the Business Partner Sales team which is a unit in Forecasting, Reporting & Decision Support under Customers & Markets Finance. The team supports and challenges the International Sales division's top management and provides high-quality information to decision-makers at several levels. The key responsibilities include reporting of monthly financial statements, forecasts, performance management activities, business case modelling, controlling, and strategic sparring.

Customers & Markets, which has 1,600 employees and is one of four business units in DONG Energy. We handle the production from our wind farms and oil and gas fields for the energy exchanges and customers in Northern Europe, and we distribute electricity and natural gas to businesses and private customers in Denmark.

You will be based at our office in Virum in the Greater Copenhagen area and should not expect much travelling in relation to your work.

Areas of responsibility

As Senior Business Partner, you will interact closely with the commercial Sales business in creating transparency in financials and business.

You will be the link between the business, top-management and Finance and provide financial insight, business challenges, and strategic perspectives about the organisation’s position and course, ensuring that the value creating activities are in focus.

You will also help ensure transparency in EBIT and prepare relevant financial figures on, eg, sales of commodities, energy services. Moreover, you create the short-term and long-term financial forecasts for the strategic business unit. Finally, you will be produce reports and sign off material for business review meetings with the CEO and CFO and Group Finance.

Furthermore, your key duties will be to:

• produce and innovate management reports for monthly and quarterly forecast business review meetings
• participate in performance management and KPI processes
• perform and present different financial deep-dive topics in an accessible way to management
• handle business case processes and reviews and facilitate communication to other Finance departments
• project manage selected financial development projects and lead financial reporting processes towards Sales

Your profile

You hold a relevant academic master's degree in finance or economics, and you are among the best in your class. Further, you have a solid background of relevant experience from a finance department, preferably within corporate or business finance, consulting or similar. Experience with business controlling, senior management reporting, financial problem solving and communication of complex financial analysis will be considered an advantage.

You are a super user of Microsoft power point and excel and preferably also acquainted with SAP/SAP-BI. As we operate in an international environment, is it essential that you speak and write English fluently.

You are analytically strong, persistent and results-oriented. You have a systematic, structured and process-oriented approach to your work and you are an excellent communicator, orally as well as on paper. As a person, you take responsibility, are positive minded, and have a collaborative nature. Hence, you are able to create results through teamwork and develop good relationships to your colleagues and stakeholders.

Further, you have a high level of initiative and drive and welcome changes, and you do not hesitate to challenge consensus.

Finally, you show flexibility, as your work load may become intense during busy periods.

We offer

Excellent opportunities to develop personal and professional competences in a constantly changing international energy company. You will be working on complex matters and will get an insight into DONG Energy’s entire value chain and its financial drivers.

You will be part of a highly competent, ambitious and social team, and you will quickly gain a large network across the organization.

In DONG Energy Customers & Markets, we have a high level of expertise and many complex and challenging work tasks. We work dedicated every day to create value for both our customers and DONG Energy. We offer an exciting and informal workplace, where the individual employee's value creation and results is the focal point.

Contact us

Please do not hesitate to contact Lærke Louise Aagaard Reenberg, Head of Business Partner Sales, on telephone +45 99 55 65 28, if you want to know more about the position.

We look forward to receiving your application, CV and diplomas as electronic files by 17 May 2015.