Verisure is seeking a talented, innovative, and hands-on Senior Financial Planning Analyst to join our rapidly growing Finance team in Lisbon, supporting and working closely with the Denmark FP&A team, with colleagues across Scandinavia, Spain and more. We will offer you a challenging role in a growing international organization, providing the right candidate with various opportunities for professional as well as personal development. The role will report to Operational Excellence & SSC Implementation Senior Manager and will be based in Lisbon.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team in the leading provider of professionally monitored alarms for residential households and small businesses in Europe & Lat Am and to get exposure to a wide variety of financial topics as well as a dynamic international environment. The company’s success depends on its people, and it invests in them every day. Working with Verisure is being part of an industry leading world-class company that has a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
Strategic context and value proposition
Over the past years, Verisure has experienced an exceptional and resilient financial performance with a very long track record of double-digit growth - thanks to continuous drive for Innovation, our very sophisticated Go-To-Market approach and replicable business model for expansion into new countries. Our strong and visionary Management Team is now supporting the business’ next phase of growth with a robust business plan for value creation. On the back of the extraordinary growth we have enjoyed in the past years, we aim to strengthen our Finance team in Lisbon and further develop the financial function. The Senior Financial Analyst will be a key member of the team and play a critical role to achieve this objective.
Responsibilities
With reference to the Head of FP&A Denmark, you will be responsible for Financial Planning and Controlling activities for Denmark. Responsibilities will include:
Act as trusted finance partner and project manager, securing the outsourcing of Business controlling, Financial Planning and Reporting tasks
Support the Country & local functions by delivering timely monthly reporting, (Excel & Oracle / HFM)
Participate in the Local Forecast & Budget processes as a trusted partner, delivering structured estimates as well as model work to enable quality predictions for the local business.
Develop and maintain financial models in Excel, Power BI
Develop automated reporting solutions in both Power Point & Power BI
Handle financial ad hoc tasks and projects to support the country.
Experience and Qualifications
We are looking for a confident, ambitious, and passionate candidate with a strong financial and technical toolbox to drive the Financial Reporting to the next level. Recent upcoming projects will consist of the implementation of a new ERP solution as well as a new Billing system. Your task is to help drive the implementation of these changes into the financial reporting as well as deliver the base rhythm of the financial reporting tasks. You have a personal talent for “getting things done” in the right order and at the right time, this is an important part of who you are and of your personal skillset. More specifically, what we look for, is an individual matching this skillset:
A Financial master’s or bachelor’s degree
+5-10 years’ relevant experience within business controlling and/or business partnering,
Fluent in written and spoken English, experience working with internationally distributed colleagues.
Well-grounded in financial reporting / business controlling
Strong Technical skillset, “Power BI / DAX, Excel / Power Query knowledge is a must”
Skilled in identifying, interpreting and presenting data
Very strong analytical skills
Excellent communication & presentation skills
Hands-on attitude, no task is too small or too big
On the Finance organization
The Danish Finance team covers Data and BI, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Financial Accounting. Together these teams drive performance management and business reviews and provide tools, and analysis to enable better decision-making at all levels. We are supported by our Group Finance organization as well as a Group IT organization, facilitating our IT basis needs and Global Financial Guidelines. We offer a high degree of freedom and space to unleash your potential in a flat organizational structure, where we have an informal and performance-oriented work environment. Our company is constantly growing, so there are also good opportunities for an international career.
Location
The position will be based in Lisbon (Portugal)
Reports and organization structure
This position will formally report directly to the Operational Excellence & SSC Implementation Senior Manager
Strong fit with our Company DNA
Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.
Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.
Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk takers and we learn continuously.
Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.
With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always.