Senior Finance Manager

Senior Finance Manager

Category: Finance

Location:Zurich, Switzerland Zurich, CH

In this role, numbers tell more than a story — they shape strategy across continents. As Senior Finance Manager, you'll bring insight and impact driving financial excellence that powers global growth.

Your new role

As Senior Finance Manager for Region Emerging Markets, you will be part of the Business Finance team reporting to Senior Director of Finance. You will be part of a broad & diverse region across Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. You will focus on budgeting, reporting, controlling and ad-hoc analysis and be part of the regional Business Finance Leadership Team.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Running annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting and rolling planning processes for the Emerging Markets region, ensuring alignment between International Operations, our reporting units and regional commercial teams.
• Acting as finance partner with full P&L responsibility for specific geographies and also therapeutic area focus across region.
• Leading financial modelling and business case development for launches, portfolio optimization, and investment decisions—incorporating scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Building and scaling consumer-industry finance frameworks, including trade and promotion modeling, consumer and channel economics, assortment and product profitability, and customer-level P&L analysis.
• Driving efficient cost planning and management across the region as well as improve understanding of return on investment from marketing activities.

Your new department

The Business Finance team is a strategic driver of organisational success, ensuring strong financial governance and operational excellence. It oversees planning, budgeting, and reporting, delivering insights that guide key decisions. The function streamlines processes, ensures compliance, and supports regional and global priorities—combining strategic vision with analytical rigour to enable sustainable growth and long-term value creation.…

Your skills & qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications and experience:

• Global mindset with proven cross-cultural experience.
• Structured & analytical, able to build thorough analysis from data and translate it to storyline for senior management.
• Experience in Revenue Growth Management and long-term revenue and margin planning.
• Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, especially from affiliate or Consumer Health Finance/FMCG company.
• Good understanding of finance tools and data structures .
• Fluent in spoken and written English language.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

Deadline

25th November Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis)

Novo Nordisk is not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on

solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.