Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet combines global data and local expertise to help clients make smarter decisions. With 6,000+ people in 31 countries, we are a team of diverse thinkers and problem solvers who all share a common curiosity: to find new ways to turn data into value. If you share this curiosity and want to be part of a future-ready company, come join us! Learn more at dnb.com/careers.
Reporting to the European Finance Leader with a dotted reporting line to the Northern European General Manager, the Finance Leader for Northern Europe will play a key leadership role driving growth across the market with Finance Director responsibility across a number of legal entity boards. Leading a team of Commercial Business Partners, Pricing and Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) roles based in multiple locations, you will work closely with other commercial leaders and provide best-in-class financial reporting on sales, revenue and operating expense performance.
Dun & Bradstreet’s Northern European business was acquired in January 2021 and has a turnover of ~$200m across the four primary markets of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and the Baltics. The business is focused on accelerating revenue performance and profitability, while simultaneously simplifying and streamlining back-office operations and delivering innovation to improve the client experience.
The Finance Leader will work within a team of experienced finance professionals and will be an integral member of the Northern European leadership team. The post holder will support and lead the team to achieve their maximum potential, driving accountability and supporting career development. Your team will be responsible for using a variety of financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) tools and disciplines to guide leaders across the business to maximise financial performance in a fast-paced and evolving business environment.
This role will suit an experienced finance professional with strong leadership skills who is focused on driving results and willing to embrace a commercial and customer-focused growth mindset, challenge the status quo, and identify opportunities to improve ways of working. We are looking for someone who can take strategic decisions to enable greater efficiency and deliver enhanced business insight and performance. As well as being focused on providing accurate, transparent, and timely financial results, the post holder will also need to be commercially aware, with deep understanding of sales operations and demonstrable experience of working successfully with sales leadership to deliver revenue growth.
This is a great opportunity to join Dun & Bradstreet in a key role as the Company evolves in what is a hugely exciting period of change.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day activities of the Northern European Finance team from a sales, revenue and expense perspective
- Own the annual budgeting / monthly forecasting / actuals, metrics and KPI reporting / variance analysis
- Co-ordinate and deliver reporting of actual performance on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis for the Northern European Leadership Team, European Leadership Team and D&B Corporate Finance Team, providing relevant commentary that provides valuable insight into the performance drivers of the business
- Provide business partner support to the Northern European General Manager, working closely with other leaders across Sales, Product, Marketing, Analytics, Legal, People, Technology and Operations
- Lead a team of Commercial Business Partners, Pricing and FP&A roles at varying levels and tenure
- Provide leadership to the Commercial Business Partners on deal structuring, pricing, revenue predictability and profitability, including client-facing commercial negotiations where appropriate
- Collaborate with the Financial Controller team to ensure that the monthly records of the regional financial performance are delivered in a timely and accurate manner
- Use information from various sources to discover trends and identify challenges / opportunities to improve financial performance
- Support ad-hoc strategic projects as required and able
- Create an agile culture within the team that fosters personal and professional development
- Ensure that business is conducted according to USGAAP and local regulatory requirement and that all relevant financial controls are compliant with SOX at all times
Candidate Profile
- Masters of Finance or equivalent qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA accountant, ideally minimum 5-10 years’ experience and on a steep career-path journey
- A results-focused, self-motivated, dynamic character who can operate well both leading and within a team
- Strong leadership skills, including developing direct reports. Other proven attributes of communication, influencing, idea generation, insight, challenge, collaboration and resilience. Confidence and maturity to influence the direction of the business
- Takes ownership to support the customer, whether internal or external, with demonstrable experience of successful stakeholder management
- High levels of proactivity and can demonstrate their ability to react with urgency
- Demonstrates a ‘Can-do’ attitude and has a good understanding of how to co-ordinate multiple inputs to provide clear, concise and insightful management information
- Strong oral and written communication skills essential
- Strong fluency in the English language
- Excellent planning and analytical skills, together with a proactive approach
- Ability to manage workloads to strict reporting deadlines, as well as to react flexibly to changes in requirements
- Keenness to learn and work collaboratively with colleagues across all business functions
- Experience working in a US HQ and matrix organisation beneficial
- Experience with USGAAP and exposure to revenue recognition is desirable
- High ability using the MS suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint is essential; good working knowledge of CRMs such as SFDC and of US financial systems (TM1/Hyperion, WorkDay and Business Objects) would all be beneficial
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you!
Why Join Us?
Does this role sound like a great opportunity but you’re not sure about making a move? We are really proud of our company and culture and think we have some great things to offer. Some of our benefits in Sweden include:
· Two paid volunteer days to contribute to causes in your community
· A paid day every year to use for your health and wellness
· Instead of half days before public holidays, you will have 4 additional full days a year for you to use to celebrate what is meaningful to you
· Annual wellness/sport benefit
· Collective agreement, pension, insurance and parental pay allowance
· Access to free services providing support and counselling
· Flexible working arrangements and hybrid work arrangement for most roles
Whilst some roles do have certain requirements which are essential, we try to focus on hiring based on potential rather than CV as much as possible. If you are unsure you fully meet the requirements, we would still love to hear from you!
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