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Strategic Investment Partner to join Digital Investment Management

Are you an expert in financial steering and investment management? Do you excel at making strategic financial decisions and comfortably interact with senior leadership? If so, your skills are needed!

The Digital Investment Management (DIM) team, located within the CFO Area, is instrumental in directing financial decisions and managing investments across Danske Bank’s agile and cross-functional development organization. We specialize in financial decision-making and cost steering, using traditional finance techniques such as budgeting and forecasting to determine development capacity.

Our team is also crucial in advancing the group’s strategic agenda. We bridge strategic plans with financial planning and development, project the financial impacts of strategies, and support the definition and tracking of benefits. We are committed to continuously enhancing the development organization’s financial steering model to ensure alignment with agile principles, governance, and processes.

As an Investment Partner, you will support at least one development unit—depending on the unit’s size—and act as the primary Finance contact for the senior leadership of those units. You will also help evolve our team’s methodologies and act as an ambassador for positive change management across various stakeholders within the organization.

We are currently seeking a candidate to team up with a senior strategic investment partner supporting one of the bank’s largest development units. This role involves working as part of a small team within the DIM team, sharing responsibilities where the current colleague will take a more leading role, and you will be partnering up.

Our team is a relatively new, globally based team in Lithuania and Denmark, working collaboratively to empower our stakeholders to create and deliver high value to Danske Bank customers.

Depending on your experience, you may be offered a different seniority of the role.

"Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees."

You will:

  • Build and maintain trustworthy relationships with senior leadership and CFOs of development units
  • Assist senior leadership in managing digital investments, challenging or triggering prioritization when necessary
  • Lead cost and capacity reporting, and provide strategic support (sparring) for your designated development unit(s)
  • Oversee the annual estimation of investment benefits as part of the group-wide annual development planning
  • Ensure that the bank’s overall investment prioritization is supported by rigorous benefit assessments to facilitate timely course corrections if needed
  • Serve as a close strategic partner (sparring partner) for the team, colleagues in your area, and stakeholders
  • Utilize your expertise to develop and enhance operational methodologies, aiming to provide top-notch services

About you:

  • A natural interest in data structures, financial principles, and stakeholder engagement
  • Extensive experience in engaging with senior executives, enabling effective navigation within a complex stakeholder landscape
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in relevant fields such as performance management, business management, strategy or financial/business analysis
  • Experience with agile methodologies or in the financial services industry is highly valued, though not mandatory
  • You are a team player, self-driven, result oriented, accurate, and confident in making decisions and thriving in a fast-paced environment with high standards
  • Values the opportunity to improve ways of working and to strengthen underlying principles and processes
  • Advanced English language skills

We offer:

Monthly salary range from 3440 EUR to 5160 EUR gross (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

Additionally, each Danske Bank employee receives employee benefits package which includes:
    • Growth opportunities: professional & supportive team, e-learnings, numerous development programs; (incl. professional certificates); 100+ professions for internal mobility opportunities.
    • Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; additional health insurance; mental well-being practices; partial psychologist counselling compensation; silence and sleep zones at the office; game rooms.
    • Hybrid working conditions: home office budget (after the probation period); modern Danske Campus workplace developed with anthropologist for the best employee experience.
    • Additional days of leave: for rest, health, volunteering, exams in higher education institutions, and other important activities. Moreover, for seniority with Danske Bank.
    • Monetary compensation package: accidents & critical diseases insurance; financial support in case of unfortunate events, travel insurance; IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contribution.

Additional days of vacation

Additional health insurance package

Third pillar pension fund

Free parking & charging ports - cars, bicycles, e-scooters

See all the benefits HERE.

If you're interested in this role and joining my team, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn, and I will answer your questions!

Nicklas Kroos, Head of Investment Finance

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If you are interested, please send your CV in English no later than 11.10.2024. Confidentiality guaranteed.

Your title in job contract will be Analyst - Business, Senior.