Haarslev Group - Finance Business Partner Operations

Do you want to play a key role in how a global company manages performance, investments and operational decision-making across manufacturing and supply chain?

Do you thrive at the intersection of manufacturing, supply chain, and finance — where insights, analyses and business cases directly shape operational and strategic decisions?

And do you enjoy building strong relationships with your stakeholders and colleagues in a global organization?

Welcome to your new team
You will join a company with a strong sustainable approach to creating more value with fewer resources.

In essence, Haarslev's technologies transform residual material from animal production into valuable by-products, helping address global challenges related to resource utilization and contributing to a more sustainable future.

Founded as a local machine workshop, Haarslev has grown into a global market leader.

Your role as Finance Business Partner
With reference to the Chief Financial Officer, you will join Group Finance in this newly established role.

You will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer and his team and act as the primary financial sparring partner to Operations at both a strategic and operational level. The position holds a shared responsibility for performance management and P&L development across Operations.

Key responsibilities and key deliveries are:

· Business partnering: Provide proactive financial sparring to Operations management, with a focus on performance, profitability, and decision quality

· Investments & business cases: Prepare and validate CAPEX proposals, make-or-buy analyses, and footprint assessments

· Manufacturing & efficiency: Monitor capacity utilization, productivity, efficiency, and labor and overhead costs

· Operations & Supply Chain: Drive harmonization, optimization, and financial transparency across processes and workflows

· Inventory management: Further develop inventory processes, models, and working capital efficiency

· Governance & controlling: Ensure robust financial controls, compliance, and high data quality across Operations

· Procurement & spend management: Analyze purchasing data, cost drivers, and lead savings and value-creation initiatives

The Finance Business Partner has one employee in direct report. The position is based at Haarslev’s office on Funen, Denmark.

What we are looking for
You enjoy working where finance meets operations and where your insights create real impact. You thrive close to the business, partnering with operations, supply chain, and management to turn data into clear, actionable decisions.

Just as importantly, you are motivated by building and strengthening robust processes, improving structures, and helping establish new, scalable ways of working across operations and the value chain.

You bring experience from finance business partnering or operations controlling in a manufacturing, industrial or project driven environment. You have a solid understanding of cost drivers, performance, and investments.

You communicate financial insights in a practical and constructive way. You are comfortable in supporting stakeholders at all levels but also challenging status quo.

You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics, International Business, Controlling or similar. You speak and write English fluently.

What you get at Haarslev
This is a unique opportunity to further develop your toolbox and act as advisor to the CFO and COO. This position is considered a steppingstone into broader finance leadership, where strong performance can open doors to increased responsibility across Finance and the wider organization.

You will become part of a strong professional environment where collaboration and job satisfaction are priorities. Haarslev also places a strong emphasis on your personal and professional development – including leadership development programs and international exposure that will prepare you for the next steps in your career.

Interested in developing your professional skills at a global company?
GML is assisting Haarslev with this recruitment. For further information, please contact Senior Research Consultant Jakob Fallesen, telephone +45 2295 9240 or Consultant Mads Nielsen, +45 2364 4649.

All inquiries are treated confidentially. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis, and the position will be filled once the right candidate is found.

About Haarslev
Haarslev has over 100 years of global experience in the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of advanced process plants for the production of by-products from meat destruction and fish processing. The company sells to more than 120 countries worldwide and is the only global provider in the industry. Haarslev thus contributes to minimizing waste at their customers who process animal by-products, focusing on four core industries: Meat, Poultry, Fish and processing other organic inputs.

Haarslev employs approximately 800 people, including more than 80 certified engineers, and has offices in 15 countries, including two in Denmark in Hårslev and Herlev.

Read more about the company at https://haarslev.com and watch this video that provides insight into the business and their purpose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvY-fTsmX_s&t=217s