Where there is light, there is life. This philosophy is at the heart of what we do in VELUX, linking natural resources with human needs. As “daylight engineers,” we are committed to achieving our goal of constantly giving the world new possibilities of bringing daylight and fresh air into the homes and lives of people.

Our culture reflects our values and way of working and we strive to let them shine through everything we do. Whether pursuing a career in sales, marketing, distribution, manufacturing or support operations, we believe in working as a unified team to bring light to life.

Are you ready to lead financial strategy and influence critical business decisions across a high-performing sales region? Does stakeholder management as well as fostering good collaborations across organisations come naturally to you? We are seeking a dynamic Finance Director – Regional South (France, Iberia, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands) to partner with regional sales leadership and deliver financial leadership that drives business growth, profitability, and operational excellence.

Your challenges

Taking up this regional role, you will enter a matrix organisation where you will become a key player in Region South with the benefits of close business integration and execution, while at the same being part of a global finance organisation, gaining the advantages of a global finance strategy, high professional leverage, shared data systems, platforms and performance metrics.

Managing the Global Finance team in Region South, you will work closely with the Regional Executive Vice President as well as the Regional Management Team, taking a joint responsibility for converting Group level strategic initiatives into regional strategies and plans and further participate in developing regional specific initiatives and plans to ensure optimal regional performance.

As Regional Finance Director your primary focus will be to ensure a data-driven approach to performance management and business partnering, with provision of fact-based business insight as basis for recommendations and discussions in the Regional Management team.

Combining your financial and analytical background with in-depth business knowledge and acumen, you will provide value-adding FP&A insight for the Region. You will e.g. do so by driving processes and tasks within the performance model and annual plan for the Region.

You will be based at the VELUX office in Morangis and be a part of a Global Finance organization with direct report to Senior Director, Global Finance, Sales & Marketing (Hørsholm, Denmark)

More specific the primary tasks are:

• Lead the financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes for the region, providing insights that drive revenue growth and margin optimization.

• Partner closely with Regional Sales leadership to shape and execute the region’s financial strategy, ensuring alignment with global business objectives.

• Oversee financial modeling and scenario planning to assess risks and opportunities, guiding the region’s decision-making process.

• Engage in standardizing financial processes, reports and tasks across the different regions together with the rest of the management team in Global Finance, Sales & Marketing

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and collaboration.

Your will manage a regional finance team of 5 finance business partners based in Morangis

You can expect to travel approximately 30-40 days annually.

Your opportunities

The VELUX Group is the world leader in roof windows and skylights. We are family and foundation-owned with a long history of strong results and giving back to society. We offer exciting challenges and great opportunities for your personal and professional development, and you will get a unique chance to work with competent and dedicated colleagues where commitment, mutual respect and thoroughness are among our core values.

If you want to make a difference, this is the place to be. Working across many business entities and functions, you will get a chance to sharpen your analytical skills and form strong collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from various parts of the business. Our team is characterised by an informal tone and respect for each other both as team players and as individuals.

To us, collaboration is key, and this means that you will have contact with a wide range of key stakeholders and gain exposure across our organisation. As you build strong business relationships and business acumen, you will become a key player in supporting our growth strategy.

Application and contact

Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com, where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.

We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are reviewing candidates and calling for interviews on an ongoing basis.

You will bring experience from large, complex, internationally operating companies with a full value chain. You have a solid leadership experience in relevant Global Finance functions as well as experience with Finance Business Partnering.

Furthermore we expect:

Communication

• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills, incl. the ability to syntheses insights into easily understood conclusions and recommendations for non-finance colleagues.

• Communicates the central issues in a discussion in a clear, fluent, and precise manner; is able to keep the recipients’ attention; attentive to the needs of others when he/she speaks.

• Produces written material, which is clear, fluent, precise, and easy to understand for the recipients.

Inspires confidence

• Makes a good first impression; appears honest and sincere; appears trustworthy and competent; gains other people’s trust

Personal relations

• Credible activist, who is passionate about making a difference and understands how to drive performance through insight, cooperation and aspiration

• Is able to establish and maintain relations with people at all levels, internally as well as externally; makes people feel at ease; achieves agreement by dealing with disagreements and potential conflicts with diplomatic skills; develops and maintains networks.

Delegation

• Delegates responsibility to the relevant employees and allows them room for manoeuvre to explore own initiatives; empowers people in order for them to carry out tasks efficiently.

Follow up

• Natural curiosity and desire to progress and improve; proactive follow up-ship on decisions.

• Plans actions to secure optimal use of time and resources; compares achieved results with set objectives; follows up on delegated tasks and decisions.

Commercial orientation

• Possesses knowledge about economic and business conditions; focuses on costs, profit, new business opportunities and activities.

Analysis and technical skills

• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills

• Divides problems into relevant parts; differentiates between key areas and irrelevant and less important areas; has a logical mind-set; makes sensible decisions on the basis of available information

• Proficient user of SAP and other relevant platforms and dashboards, e.g. SAC or Power BI is an advantage

• Speaks and write fluent English and French