About this role
<p><img src="https://8903da-be.liveserver.nu/media/xryjs05o/danish-crown-logo.png" alt="" width="" height=""></p> <p>25/06/2026</p> <p>Group CFO</p> <p>DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-size:18.0px">Sr. Lead, Planning (Financial Planning & Analytics) </span></strong></p><p><strong>Do you want to help Turn planning into a decision-making engine in a company in transition?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><em><strong>Turn planning into a decision-making engine. Danish Crown is transforming the way Finance supports the business. We are building a stronger Group FP&A function with global responsibility for planning, forecasting, performance management and financial steering.</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p>Our ambition is to move beyond traditional budget and forecast mechanics. Planning must become a true decision-making engine that connects strategy, targets, resource allocation, business priorities and execu-tive performance dialogue. </p> <p> </p> <p>We are now looking for a new colleague who will drive the Planning & Forecasting including leading the development of our group-wide planning model and help drive our Planning 2.0 journey. This is a unique opportunity to shape how Danish Crown plans, allocates resources and steers long-term value creation.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your role</strong><br>You will own and develop the group-wide planning operating model across Danish Crown. You will lead the annual planning wheel, budget process, rolling forecasts, target setting and long-term financial planning model - ensuring that planning becomes more consistent, efficient and business-relevant. </p> <p> </p> <p>You will be central in linking the long-term financial strategy with annual targets, business unit plans and executive reporting. Your work will help the organisation better understand scenarios, risks, trade-offs and opportunities - and ensure that planning outputs translate into forward-looking insights and decisions. </p> <p><br>You will work closely with many stakeholders both in Denmark and international across the Danish Crown group across all levels of the business from IT developers to executives. </p> <p> </p> <p><br><strong>Your key responsibilities</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Own the group-wide planning operating model and turn planning into a decision-making engine - not just a reporting cycle.</li> <li>Own the long-term financial planning model and ensure strong linkage to long term strategy, strategic targets and the annual wheel.</li> <li>Communicate long-term financial scenarios, risks and trade-offs, while challenging assumptions and validating business input.</li> <li>Translate planning outputs into forward-looking insights and connect them to the executive re-porting narrative together with the Reporting Lead.</li> <li>Own the Group planning calendar, including annual budget, rolling forecast and target setting.</li> <li>Develop governance, communication, templates and planning standards across Danish Crown.</li> <li>Provide group-level planning assumptions and ensure consistent methods across business units and functions.</li> <li>Improve planning processes by introducing best practice, simplification, standardisation and au-tomation.</li> <li>Own planning system requirements towards IT, ensuring fit-for-purpose templates, controls and workflows.</li> <li>Drive the Planning 2.0 roadmap, including scope, milestones, system/project resource needs and adoption approach. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who are you?</strong></p> <p>You are an experienced finance professional with strong planning, modelling and stakeholder manage-ment skills. You understand that great planning is not about collecting numbers it is about helping the business make better decisions.</p> <p><br>You are structured and analytical, but also pragmatic and business-oriented. You can challenge assump-tions, connect financial logic to operational reality and communicate complex trade-offs in a clear way.</p> <p><br><span style="text-decoration:underline">We imagine that you have:</span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>A master’s degree in finance, economics or a related field.</li> <li>6–8+ years of experience from relevant finance roles such as FP&A, business finance, controlling, forecasting, planning, strategy finance or finance transformation.</li> <li>Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities, including driver-based planning and sce-nario modelling.</li> <li>A commercial mindset and the ability to understand business drivers, value creation levers and op-erational trade-offs.</li> <li>Experience with planning systems, and BW/ERP system integration.</li> <li>Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate across functions, business units and geographies.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills in English.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>We are open for the position to be located out of our Headquarters in Randers or our Copenhagen Hub, though we require onsite presence in Randers approx. 1-2 days per week. </p> <p> </p> <p><br><strong>Why join us?</strong></p> <p>Because you will help shape how Danish Crown plans for the future.</p> <p><br>You will join a Group FP&A team with a clear mandate to strengthen performance transparency, capital discipline, cash generation and long-term value creation. </p> <p><br>You will influence how Danish Crown connects strategy, targets, budgets, forecasts and performance dialogue - and you will play a key role in one of the largest transformation journeys in Europe.</p> <p><br>If you want to create impact beyond the spreadsheet - and help turn planning into a true leadership tool - we would like to hear from you.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Appetite for More?</strong><br>Is this your dream job? Send your CV and application as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you.</p> <p><br>To learn more about the role, please contact Sr. Director, Robert Jørgensen, at +45 31 61 43 52</p> <p><br>We review applications on an ongoing basis and will close the search once the right candidates has been found.</p>