Lead Finance Business Partner

velux; Hørsholm; On-site; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

VELUX is seeking a Lead Finance Business Partner to support the Strategy & Sales Development organisation. In this highly visible role you will partner with the Executive Vice President and SSD Leadership Team to shape financial strategy and performance across the global business.

You will lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and target-setting; translate financial and operational insights into actionable recommendations; and drive KPI development, reporting, and cost accounting.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Economics, or related field.
• Extensive finance experience in industrial or manufacturing settings.
• Strong background in business partnering, FP&A, and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management with senior leaders.
• Strong analytical skills with complex data; proficient in SAP, Excel, Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Serve as finance partner to the EVP for Strategy & SSD Leadership Team.
• Lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and targets.
• Translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Drive strategic decisions via analysis, benchmarks, and scenarios.
• Monitor performance, identify risks, report transparently.
• Lead investment planning and cost efficiency initiatives.
• Prepare management presentations for senior leadership.
• Develop KPI frameworks with Data & Analytics.
• Oversee product costing and standard costing.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and reporting.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Business partnering

Forecasting

Education

Master's degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

SAP

Excel

Power BI

BI reporting tools

Job description

Are you a strategic finance leader who thrives on influencing business decisions at the highest level? Do you enjoy translating complex financial insights into meaningful business value and partnering with senior leaders to shape the future of an organisation? If so, this may be your opportunity to join VELUX as our new Lead Finance Business Partner supporting the Strategy & Sales Development organisation.

Meet your future team

You will become part of the Global Finance organisation and serve as the dedicated finance business partner to the Executive Vice President of Strategy & Sales Development (SSD) and the SSD Leadership Team.

In this highly visible role, you will work across a broad network of stakeholders, including business and operational leaders, regional and global finance teams, Group Finance, Group Business Services, Centres of Excellence, and Data & Analytics specialists. As the lead finance sparring partner for SSD, you will play a key role in ensuring strong financial performance, transparency, and strategic decision-making.

You will join a collaborative and ambitious environment where finance is deeply integrated into business planning and execution. Here, you will have the opportunity to challenge conventional thinking, influence senior stakeholders, and contribute directly to the strategic direction of the business.

What we offer

As Lead Finance Business Partner, you will drive financial performance and strategic decision-making by providing forward-looking insights, challenging assumptions, and identifying opportunities to create business value.

More specifically your tasks will be to:

• Act as a trusted finance partner to the EVP for Strategy & Sales Development and the SSD Leadership Team, supporting key business decisions through financial insight and challenge
• Lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and target-setting processes, ensuring robust assumptions and high-quality financial plans
• Translate financial, operational, and strategic insights into actionable recommendations that support long-term business objectives
• Drive strategic and operational decision-making through financial analysis, benchmarking, business case development, and scenario modelling
• Monitor financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and ensure transparency through meaningful reporting and communication
• Lead investment planning, capital efficiency initiatives, and gap-closing activities that support business performance
• Prepare management presentations and decision-support material for senior leadership and Executive Group Management
• Develop and maintain KPI frameworks and performance reporting in collaboration with Data & Analytics teams
• Drive product costing and standard cost accounting processes
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on process optimisation, reporting quality, and operational efficiency

What you will bring

You are a commercially minded finance professional with a strong strategic mindset and the confidence to engage and influence senior stakeholders. You combine analytical depth with excellent business understanding and enjoy working in a dynamic international environment where collaboration and challenge go hand in hand.

Moreover, we expect that you:

• Hold a Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Economics, or a related field
• Bring extensive experience from finance roles within industrial, manufacturing, or similarly complex international organisations
• Have a strong background in business partnering, financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and business analysis
• Demonstrate excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior leaders
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities and are comfortable working with complex data and business challenges
• Possess solid digital capabilities, including SAP, Excel, and BI reporting tools, preferably Power BI
• Communicate fluently in English

About VELUX

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, 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 can create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. W