Business Controller for our global production and supply chain

Are you motivated by making a difference?

At FOSS, we are driven by a strong sense of purpose, and we hope you are too. Food production is bound to increase immensely in the coming years to keep up with growing populations all over the world – a 60% increase in production by 2050, to be exact.

It is our mission to make sure that our customers, food, and agricultural companies around the world, can meet this higher demand without sacrificing sustainable values. To further support this exciting journey, we are looking for a Business Controller for our global production and supply chain (PSC) function.

You will work onsite at our head office in Hillerød Denmark. It is part of our DNA to always strive to become even better at what we do. Being FIRST is one of our core values, because it is both rewarding and fun. You will be joining us on an exciting financial journey, where you will get to influence your role as well as develop your skills as we grow and evolve.

A newly established team

You will be part of our Group Business Controlling team consisting of 4 dedicated colleagues beside yourself. Here, we are responsible for the business controlling for all functions of FOSS. The responsibility is split on PSC, Sales, Service, R&D and Marketing. You will be reporting to the Head of Group Business Controlling.

Going so, we work closely with the other functions at the head office and our colleagues at our sites around the globe. And you will be working alongside great colleagues, who are always ready to help and share their insights.

Supporting our Global head of Production & Supply Chain

Your goal is to ensure an objective financial support function to our SVP for Production & Supply Chain, where you assess the proposals and projects and the estimated financial effects. You will be a member of the leadership team for PSC. Your role will be to provide the latest financial status in a transparent, business translated and actionable way.

This also means that you are charged with conveying the message of your assessment, making sure that everyone is on board with the complex analysis and numbers. By doing this, we help create value for the business, our supply chain, and our colleagues. You are expected to actively participate in deviation and improvement management based on your insights into both the financial and the business side of things. You aim to challenge the current state and come with suggested actions and adjustments.

You will also be a central part in the group performance management. Here you will support our CFO with group analysis, where you give insight and challenge statue que.

Some of your tasks also include that you:

Carry out various reporting and analysis that support business optimization e.g., performance management and controlling projects, creating a red line from operational controlling to strategic target setting
Drive yearly budget and estimate process for this SVP area
Support and initiate analyses and processes that ensure a stable financial control, including highlighting risks and handling business cases
Participate in weekly and monthly meetings with key stakeholders ensuring that our reporting processes are followed and that our production set-up is profitable
Assist with the implementation of our strategy and secure the realization of anticipated KPIs
Maintain a close and constructive working relationship with our Group Reporting & Accounting, who handles our basic accounting responsibilities

Furthermore, you will support and supervise our production controlling in Suzhou, China.

Partners in sustainable global development

Here, you get the comfort in knowing that your hard work does actual good in the world, as we are continuously working towards supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

To reach those goals, we are actively involved in the UN Global Compact to ensure that we are always on track. We are also members of SEDEX, which means that we allow independent audits of our supply chain every 2-3 years, guaranteeing that we uphold the highest standards in labor rights, health & safety, environmental impact, and business ethics.

People and knowledge

People and knowledge. That has been one of our core values since FOSS’ inception 65 years ago. We are always looking for talent, and we are more than ready to nurture it.

You are properly looking to perfect your craft and you want to develop your leadership abilities, we have the resources to help you succeed.

Qualifications

Solid stakeholder management skills are key to succeeding in this role. You are good at structuring tasks and keeping the bigger picture under pressure without losing the focus on the details. In oder to succeed, you should possess a commercial mindset and common sense.

The preferred candidate comes with solid experience from an international company, where you have worked with financial planning and analysis. We expect you to be an experience controller with proven track record. You are a superuser of MS Office and knowledge of SAP is an advantage, but not a requirement.

We expect your professional background to be a master degree/HD within finance. Furthermore, you communicate professionally in English.

Personal skills

You are a person with personal drive. You are thorough, possess good cooperation skills, which enable you to establish professional relations. You have a positive, can-do attitude and takes pride in communicating and explaining your own area of expertise to stakeholders and colleagues around you.

Lastly, you need to have a keen interest in technical details as our products are complex and key to our success. Therefore, you need to be curious as well as intelligent.

We offer

We offer a challenging job, in an international and innovative company, that is a world leader in its field. You will get the opportunity to work with the most advanced technology, together with highly skilled colleagues in strong teams and cross-functional projects.

Application

If you are interested in the position, please apply via the link below. We do not need you to enclose a cover letter, but kindly include a few lines regarding your motivation for applying in the CV.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.