The role as CFO for the Danish entities of DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) is a Leader-role stretching beyond leading the Finance-team.DGF DK is an extremely exciting company with a strong value-driven culture – a company with a turnover in 2021 of DKK +2bn, and worldwide trading from three locations (Kastrup, Vejle and Aalborg).As CFO it is a privilege to work as pro-active and visible member of SMT and partner to the senior levels within the business – while of course overall responsible for various dimensions of compliance and the high quality / completeness of the numbers and figures in our internal and external reporting.DGF has a broad selection of high-quality demanding customers and we provide best in class transportation and freight solutions - adapted to individual needs and requirements. The Finance team consists of 10 locally based team-members and we cooperate internationally with head office functions spread over Europe and GSC-teams mainly far-East.#CFO , #Leadership , #FinancialManagement , #Strategic , #BusinessPartnering , #FinancialPlanning , #RollingForecast , #CashFlow , #NetWorkingCapital

Bring many years of experience working globally first hand with business partnering, reporting, controlling and cross-functional process focus to Headoffice in Denmark and drive the continuous optimization to streamline and improve the support/systems and collaboration through understanding and insight in to the day-to-day challenges in the sharp end of our business. By heading up the local finance team globally focus on reducing the distance between locations and HQ, bring them closer together, also cross functionally - a great, interesting and challenging journey with many great experiences, and we succeeded! We created a global one-team feeling across the locations and a comfortable work-climate to highlight issues and constructively discuss and share solutions and best practices – and implement them.In Spring 2020 Maersk Drilling decided to establish a Financial Business Support Centre in Gdansk, and I was co-heading the hiring and onboarding of the approx. 60 new team-members in Gdansk, ensuring proper handovers, documentation of SOPs, clear role-descriptions, team-structures etc. The full team in Gdansk was built between December 2019 and May 2020, and we created a very strong finance setup, while keeping the ambitious timeline and the overall budget despite COVID19 pandemic adding a lot of unforeseen challenges, e.g. largely virtual. The team in Gdansk is a huge success and across all processes within Finance we have observed positive jumps in process deliverables’ strength, quality customer focus.> Heading up the global Finance Manager team (10+ pax) and their teams (50+)> Constructively leading, representing and supporting the frontline finance functions and their period-end reporting with e.g. tools, data and consolidation towards all levels of HQ management and cross functional.> Co-heading hiring, onboarding and building up a 60-person Global Business Support team for global finance in Gdansk, followed by transitioning of tasks and responsibilities

Finance Director heads up the Finance, Reporting, Accounting and Payroll teams and is ultimately responsible for all finance business partnering and reporting related matters within the local organisation. We managed the full financials of up to 9 offshore drilling rigs in a highly regulated area – incl. clients, authorities, internal (international) reporting and crossfunctional compliance. Managed three teams with up to 13 employees, responsibilities broadly include: • Participating as finance business partner in all cross functional settings • Complete end-to-end responsibility of the Finance function for the Norwegian activities • All reporting and accounting related matters within external and internal reporting• All cash flow, bank accounts and Accounts payable / receivable • Local corporate tax and transfer pricing, incl. intercompany agreements. • Payroll function • Office administration incl. insurances and assets • Board member and Company Secretary As ACHIEVEMENTS, below are five examples: • Successful rollout of an ERP system, replacing many standalone systems with one integrated, cross-functional system. The Finance function was spearheading. • Working through a steep upswing and an immediate, sharp downturn of the oil market with all aspects and challenges within the two opposite market-situations. • Developing and expanding the business partnering concept of the finance function and changing the culture and mindset of the team from reactive to proactive. • Actively changing the mindset and culture by driving successful integration of our central Global Service Centre in Pune. • Settling a yearlong dispute and negotiation regarding transfer pricing with the local tax authorities so that both parties experience the settlement as a win-win.

The opportunity to become part of a pioneering location startup team, building up a presence for Maersk Drilling in Australia - we were originally 5 people / pioneers. This was a big trusted challenge requiring huge efforts and dedication and a very rewarding experience to develop relations and build up our name and business processes. We were successful and the activities and organisation grew fast. Within 3 years we were managing several offshore drilling rigs and one FPSO, and the office grew to over 100 people.Manager for 9 employees and responsibilities broadly included:- Senior Business Partner in all cross functional settings. As the organisation grew so fast, it became necessary to split the back office functions in to separate departments, where-after undersigned continued as Finance Manager.- All Finance and Accounting including consolidated external and internal reporting- Heading up all budgeting and forecasting activities- All cash flow, bank accounts and Accounts payable / receivable- Building up and managing the Payroll function- implement and ensure compliance with tax and transfer pricing (intercompany agreements)- Managing office administration, incl. insurances and assets- Managing office IT and network- Company Secretary

The Deputy Finance Manager (DFM) is a broad Business Partnering and internal reporting role, where you are also training as a team leader, while learning how to engage and value-add in a cross departmental setting and practising hands-on skills in order to eventually be ready to take on the challenge as Finance Manager. There are also many day-to-day financial tasks integrated in the role.Responsibilities broadly include:- Deputy team leader to the department head (the Finance Manager)- Business Partnering activities with operational teams with strong customer focus- Spearhead the internal monthly reporting process- Diagnosing and optimising cross functional processes- Dealing with day to day issues on internal cost controlling- Implementing new reporting systems- Involved in transfer pricing and some tax issues- Budget, forecast and year-end reporting coordination and dealing with audit issues

Consolidating global monthly, quarterly and yearly report direct to Senior Management, incl quality control and general controlsConsolidation budgets and forecasts incl quality controlPreparing overviews for monthly Senior Management presentationsInvolved in various issues on tax and transfer pricingFocal point for investment calculations and bid calculations for new projects, new assets and activitiesCost controlling and assisting frontline offices on accounting and reporting matters