Chief Financial Officer

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of financial services.

We are now looking for a future oriented senior leader to join us as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Nordea Life and Pensions Norway (Nordea Liv), where you’ll be part of a team creating the future of insurance and banking. Nordea Life and Pension is a part of Wealth Management in Nordea with 202 employees in Oslo and Bergen. We serve approximately 23.000 companies and 300.000 private customers with savings, pensions or life insurance products, resulting in ~18 bnEUR in assets under management.

About this opportunity

Welcome to Nordea Life and Pensions. With us, you’ll help individuals and companies realise their aspirations when it comes to long-term savings, pensions and life insurance. We assist individuals when they face life-changing situations and ensure companies cover their needs for employee pension plans.

You’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger.

We are building the foundation for tomorrow’s financial solutions: We design our future business and modernize our application landscape to deliver great, digital customer experiences to all our customers. We think this is truly exciting and hope you will think so, too.

What you’ll be doing:

As the CFO in Nordea Life and Pension, you will lead the CFO area and be part of the executive leadership team in NLP Norway. You will be instrumental in setting the direction and ambition for our company and making sure we build a future proof finance organisation that is second to none in the industry.

As CFO, you will be overall responsible for running the CFO area and ensure that day-to-day operations and reporting are performed with timely delivery and consistent high quality. Furthermore, you will work closely with the business units, and part of the role is to have a profound understanding of the change our industry is going through and translate that into joint execution plans across the business and finance area.

To make it even more interesting, we are currently embarking on a complete makeover of our core systems, and the CFO plays a crucial role in making that happen over the next 3-5 years. You will play a key role in this transformation and contribute to building the insurance company for the future.

Besides the work inside our company, the CFO also supports and maintains good relationships and collaborates throughout the wider Nordea group as part of the NLP Group Finance leadership team.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

We’re have created an agile environment where we experiment and grow together – and we need your ideas, guidance and unique background.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have excellent leadership skills and gravitas to drive the finance area forward
• As a leader you are open, inclusive and deeply engaged in maximising everyone’s potential to the fullest.
• Broad experience working with all aspects of finance within insurance and/or banking
• Have courage and dare to challenge the existing in order to improve performance
• Profound execution skills, being able to make the right priorities and deliver the desired effects.
• Have a collaborative and goal-oriented mind-set: You see opportunities where others see problems, and you know that a team is more than the sum of its parts
• Deep understanding of how the finance area can play a pivotal role in solving tomorrow’s business opportunities

To be a qualified candidate for the CFO position, you have:

• Master’s degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant leadership experience
• Experience from leading finance units, preferably within the financial industry
• Experience from reporting, controlling, budgeting, and capital management processes from a strategic and business point of view
• Strong understanding of how technology can play a part in making the finance area more efficient and provide better guidance to the business units.
• Excellent English language skills, fluent in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language.

The position is based in Bergen, where we have just moved into brand new offices in the city centre.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Please submit your application no later than 04/09/2022. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Hans-Erik Lind Chief Executive Officer, mail hans-erik.lind@nordea.com  phone +47 416 41 551  or Arild Mjøs Andersen, Bønes Virik Executive Search, telephone: +47 916 06 509.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.