Senior Finance Manager, Global Marketing

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

• Are you looking for a challenging role within global finance and marketing?
  
• Do you have a commercial mindset and extensive experience with business partnering in an international setting?
  
• Does stakeholder management as well as fostering of good collaboration across organisations come natural to you?
  

Then we might be looking for you!

We offer
An interesting role where you will be the Senior Finance Manager for Marketing and play a pivotal role in partnering with our global marketing organization to drive financial performance and decision-making.

This role combines strategic financial leadership with people management responsibilities, as you will lead a team of two finance professionals. You will provide strategic insights, financial analysis, and support to senior stakeholders, ensuring that marketing investments are optimized to achieve business goals.

In this role you will join the Global Finance (GF) organization, located partly at our Head Office in Hørsholm and in our regional offices around Europe as well as the US.

The Global Finance transformation journey was kicked off this summer, which for the coming years will aim at optimizing the way we work as a finance organization to drive most value creation for VELUX.

Key responsibilities
You will be reporting directly to Senior Director, GF Sales and Marketing, be a key sparring partner to our EVP for Global Marketing, who sits in our Executive Management Team, as well as be part of the Global Marketing Leadership Team.

You will work closely together with the finance team in both head office and regions, as well as in close collaboration with the leadership team in marketing.

This means there we be a lot of opportunity to truly drive impact.

More specifically, your primary tasks will be to :

• Act as the key financial business partner to the Global Marketing team, providing insights and recommendations on budgets, forecasts, and investment decisions.
• Lead the financial planning, analysis, and reporting process for marketing, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Lead the continuous improvement of the marketing operating model between regional finance organization and the global finance organization
• Collaborate with cross-regional and global teams to secure clarity on financial processes, especially in relation to financial planning
• Support the development of business cases for marketing investments, ensuring a strong foundation for decision-making by evaluating financial risks, benefits, and ROI, while also following up on value realization
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing effectiveness and ROI.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of two finance professionals, fostering a collaborative and results-driven environment.
• Set clear goals, provide ongoing feedback, and support the professional growth of your team members.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and reports for senior leadership and stakeholders.

Who we are looking for
The ideal candidate holds a master’s degree in Business Economics, Finance, Accounting, or other related field, combined with substantial experience from a similar role.

We picture you as having strong interest, a commercial mindset and experience within finance and performance management, coupled with an analytical mindset and the ability to build relationships and communicate with various stakeholders across the organisation.

You are passionate about making a difference and understand how to drive performance through insight, data-driven analysis, and strong cooperation with the rest of the business.

Furthermore, you:

• 8+ years of experience in finance/business partnering, ideally within a global organization.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Proven expertise in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for marketing or commercial functions.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect financial insights to strategic goals.
• Take the initiative and are comfortable acting independently but within a strong collaborative team environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with experience influencing senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in people management, including leading, coaching, and developing a team.
• Proficiency in developing and presenting robust business cases that enable informed decision-making.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modelling, forecasting tools, and ERP systems (SAP).

Your opportunities
In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our team is characterised by a fair atmosphere and a high level of conviviality. We work as one team to reach our ambitious results. We believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility, and investing in people who strive to make a difference.

The VELUX Group offers exciting challenges, great opportunities of influencing your own development with competent and dedicated colleagues where commitment, courage and mutual respect are among the core values.

Application and contact
Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com, where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.

We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are reviewing candidates and calling for interviews on an ongoing basis.

Equal Opportunity Employer
VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.

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