Student Assistant Finance & Operations

Are you motivated by engaging in strategic discussions and being a part of setting the investment level and conducting investment forecasting for our portfolio of products? Would you like to put your business acumen and financial skills into play and look at how to bridge investment insights into topline impact and ensure thar our resource allocation is aligned with our go-to-market strategy? 

If you thrive in a highly engaged and motivating work-environment, with a steep learning curve and high degree of responsibility then you are the one we are looking for!

Apply today and become the Student Analyst within the Finance & Operations team in our Swedish affiliate in Malmö!

The Position

As the Student Analyst in Finance & Operations in Sweden, you will be co-responsible for our strategic resource allocation, investment analysis and total operating cost management. You will act as a sparring and business partner to our local marketing and sales organisation. 
As part of the role, you will be engaging with a large variety of stakeholders across the value chain in the Swedish sales affiliate and within the Finance & Operations team to discuss and ensure that our investments and resource allocation is in line with our strategy. It entails working closely with the marketing and people and organisation teams to conduct proper financial controls of our investments and cost-base forecasting.
Moreover, you will:

•    Fully own our total operating cost monthly management procedures, including budget follow-up, and analysis and postings of our spend and invoices.
•    Become a super user of our financial systems, and guide colleagues in navigating these.
•    Drive forecasting and budget processes for our total operating costs and monthly management reporting.
•    Be a part of a diverse and core team of the Swedish affiliate and work closely together with the other Finance Partners, Supply chain managers and Commercial Excellence managers within the Finance &

Operations team
•    Drive cross-functional working groups to address ad-hoc and current business challenges.

It is a part-time position, with ca. 15 h of work per week where we offer hybrid working options, with the possibility of working both from our Malmö office, Copenhagen office or from home. 

Qualifications

You are highly communicative and a self-driven team player who has a keen interest in financial decision making and the pharmaceutical industry. The person we are looking for:
•    Is currently involved in a BA or MA programme in Finance, Economics, or similar, and ideally has at least 2 years of their studies left
•    Has a solid problem-solving toolbox, out-of-the-box thinking and eagerness to further improve your financial and forecasting skillset
•    Has a strong stakeholder management skills and great ability to build relations 
•    Has a track record of driving projects independently, and expertise in Excel and PowerPoint
•    Has experience within data-modelling and business intelligence tools such PowerBI is a plus, but not a must-have
•    Is fluent in both written and spoken English, while knowledge of any Scandinavian language would be desirable
•    Has a learning and adaptive mindset that allows them to thrive in dynamic environments.

About the Department

The position is anchored in the Finance & Operations team of Novo Nordisk Sweden, with its office located in Malmö. It provides financial and operational support for the Swedish affiliate with its activities for pharmaceutical sales and drug development within Sweden.  

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact 

For further information regarding the role, please contact our Commercial Insight Analyst, Caroline Hovstadius at CDHI@novonordisk.com.

We do not accept resumés send by email, so please kindly apply to the role via our Careers site.

Deadline 

Please apply before 30th May 2025.

We encourage you to apply early as our Talent Acquisition team reviews applications on ongoing basis, and we will conduct interviews ongoingly for this position

You do not need to attach a formal cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resumé or CV as well as your grade transcript. 

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize 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 communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.