(Senior) FP&A Analyst

Do you want to be a valued part of the critical infrastructure that serves communities across Europe and beyond? Are you looking for a position in which you can impact the direction and help shape our company? If so, you might be the finance talent we are looking for to join our Group Financial Planning & Analysis team.

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About The Role 

The Group Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Team is responsible for driving the company’s short-term and long-term planning cycles, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure plans are aligned and executed upon. The team is also responsible for analyzing, tracking and challenging the performance of the business units in DFDS against their strategic ambitions, delivering analysis to Group and BU management, and highlighting performance gaps and potential improvement opportunities, as well as ensuring that actions are properly identified and implemented to close the gaps.

Tasks Will Vary In Nature, Both In Terms Of Content And Duration, Depending On Your Experience And Seniority, But You Will Among Other Be Expected To

• Participate in the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes
• Deep dive into financial and operational data to identify trends, explain variances, and offer actionable insights
• Build and enhance complex financial models to support scenario planning and business decisions
• Deliver high-impact reports and presentations to senior leadership
• Support the business with sparring in connection to investment proposals
• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and support for special projects as needed
  
  

The FP&A team supports the decision-making process by providing value-add analysis, financial management information, performance management reporting, and financial planning. You will work with all levels of the organization to meet our ambitious business targets and be continuously involved in improving our business and financial processes.

The position is based at our headquarters in Copenhagen.

About You

This role is suitable for both analysts looking to advance their careers and senior professionals seeking new challenges in a dynamic environment.

The position requires profound business and financial understanding, as well as analytical skills at a high level.

Furthermore, The Ideal Candidate Has

• A Master's degree in Finance or Economics or equivalent
• Min. 4 years of work experience from a similar position within FP&A and performance management, preferably combined with some commercial and/or operational exposure from relevant industries, thereby understanding the implicit trade-offs of complex business dilemmas
• An analytical mind-set and a self-starter attitude, being able to seize opportunities and invite yourself to the table
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, being able to work with both management and employees in a global organization
• Experience working in a challenging and changing environment, dealing with various tasks and deadlines at once
  
  

As a person, you are curious and collaborative by nature with a positive attitude towards challenges. You will continuously be involved in several different projects/tasks and engaged with many different stakeholders; thus, it is important that you can handle different priorities simultaneously while keeping an eye on details and delivering on time.

In addition, you enjoy challenging the status quo, can make complexities easy to understand in written and spoken English, and you thrive working in a team - and having fun while doing it.

Working at DFDS 

Join the movement and grow with us.

Career Growth and Development:  At DFDS, we are committed to your professional growth. Whether you are a growing analyst looking to advance your career, or a senior professional seeking new challenges, we provide ample opportunities for career progression and personal development.

We offer an exciting and attractive career in a driven environment with continuous professional and personal development. Our environment is international and dynamic, focusing on high performance and achieving results through cross-unit collaboration and great teamwork.

We strive to continuously develop our people, thus enabling them to take on increased responsibilities. We do this by investing in growing our employees through close sparring, providing developing tasks and a high degree of responsibility. We will also offer training courses that can support you in your role if needed.

A great place to work:  We promote a great workplace with a diverse and vibrant community. Our newly built headquarters in Copenhagen is a unique, modern workplace just 5 minutes from the nearest train & metro station.

Are we a match? Then what are you waiting for? Apply Now.  

If you think your personality, skills, experience, and desire match this role, we’d love to hear from you. Please send us your CV as soon as possible, as we’re keen to meet potential candidates on an ongoing basis.

Please contact Jonas Angaard Nord, Head of FP&A, at [email protected], for questions about the position.

The position will be filled as soon as possible.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note that due to the summer holiday period, the process might be slightly extended but rest assured that we will get back to you as soon as possible.

About DFDS

We operate a transport network in and around Europe with an annual revenue of DKK 30bn and 17,000 full-time employees.

We move goods in trailers by ferry, road & rail, and we offer complementary and related transport and logistics solutions.

We also move car and foot passengers on short sea and overnight ferry routes.

DFDS was founded in 1866 and headquartered and listed in Copenhagen.

Be part of DFDS and be part of the movement.