Head of Group Control

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 Head of Group Control in our finance function.

About the job

As Head of Group Control, you will play a decisive role in supporting the growth ambitions of the business by creating standardized financial processes in a global setting and a high level of financial insight by developing and aligning the transactional accounting, controlling, statutory and tax reporting processes. You will report to – and be a valuable sparring partner to – the director of Finance, just as you will be for all tax, annual or general reporting questions from the entities.

The role

You will head our Group Control team consisting of 4 dedicated colleagues. The team is responsible for consolidation of our reporting entities, control framework, transfer pricing and overall financial policies. You will set the direction for the team through your motivating and inspirational leadership style. You are hands-on and have experience in navigating a global company with multiple reporting entities. You will be responsible for daily operations and for driving continuous improvements, including the development, implementation, and maintenance of reliable financial controls, reports, and processes.

More specifically, your main responsibilities will include:

Leading, developing, and engaging with the local team
Engaging with international teams
Monthly financial group reporting and consolidation processes, ensuring consistent and accurate financial reporting across all entities
Responsibility for the group annual report, including reconciliations to the auditor and coordination of external audits
Responsibility for tax and transfer pricing documentation
Ensuring compliance with Danish GAAP (ÅRL) as well as international accounting standards (local GAAP, IFRS)
Developing and maintaining robust internal controls, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and streamlining processes

Company culture

At FOSS, we are driven by a strong sense of purpose. Our mission is to support sustainable food production to meet the growing global demand. We value being FIRST in everything we do, striving for continuous improvement and innovation. You will be part of a collaborative and supportive environment, working alongside great colleagues who are always ready to help and share their insights. We are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and actively involved in the UN Global Compact, ensuring we uphold the highest standards in labor rights, health & safety, environmental impact, and business ethics.

Qualifications

The preferred candidate comes with solid experience from an international company or a company with multiple reporting entities, where you have worked with consolidation on a group level. You could have an audit background or worked several years as a group financial controller. You are a superuser of MS Office and knowledge of SAP is an advantage, but not a requirement. Formal leadership experience is an advantage but not a requirement; however, you must be able to create results through others. Structuring, building, and driving process improvements is a natural interest of yours, where you have a proven track record. You have solid knowledge of international tax setup, transfer pricing as well as Danish GAAP standard (ÅRL). You are good at structuring tasks and keeping the bigger picture under pressure without losing focus on the details. We expect your professional background to be a master’s degree/HD within finance. Furthermore, you communicate professionally in English.

Personal attributes

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 take 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.

For any questions feel free to reach out to Director Finance, Sanna Arffmann at: skra@foss.dk.

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.

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not disclosed

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

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.