Finance Lead – Strategic Product Management & R&D
- Kerteminde
- Hybrid
Role Purpose
Lead all financial activities for Strategic Product Management & R&D (≈€37M budget, ~250 employees).
Ensure strong financial control, effective investments, and clear performance tracking, while acting as a key business partner to leadership and supporting innovation and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Leadership
- Own budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning
- Align financial strategy with R&D and product goals
- Ensure efficient use of resources
Performance & Investment Management
- Define and track KPIs for R&D and product development
- Evaluate investments (ROI/ROIC)
- Lead business cases and pre-/post-calculations
Cost & Resource Management
- Manage CAPEX and OPEX
- Ensure transparency of costs across projects and teams
- Support continuous financial improvement
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure strong financial governance and controls
- Support stage-gate processes and decision-making
- Maintain documentation, compliance, and reporting standards
Efficiency & Transformation
- Drive efficiency using CORE principles
- Promote digitalization, automation, and AI
- Improve financial processes and ways of working
Business Partnering
- Advise leadership on financial decisions
- Support management processes and follow-ups
- Foster a high-performing and financially disciplined culture
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, or similar
- 10–15 years of finance leadership experience (preferably in R&D/engineering)
- Strong skills in:
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Investment analysis and business cases
- Project/portfolio controlling
- Experience with digital tools, automation, and AI is a plus
- Fluent in English
Key Competencies
- Strategic financial leadership
- Analytical and data-driven decision-making
- Business partnering and stakeholder management
- Financial governance and control
- Continuous improvement and efficiency focus
Summary
A key leadership role ensuring that R&D investments deliver value, are well-governed, and support innovation through strong financial discipline and business partnership.
Work with great people
About the company
Discover the Future of Agriculture with Kverneland Group!
Kverneland Group is a leading international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural machinery and digital services. A strong focus on innovation allows us to provide a unique and broad product range with high quality.
Kverneland Group is part of the Kubota Corporation which has the ambition to support and solve problems in food, water, and the environment leading the way to a more sustainable world. Spanning across 120+ countries and employing more than 50,000 people in Asia, Europe and North America, Kubota generates revenue in excess of $20 billion.
Are you ready to contribute to the future of sustainable agriculture? Explore this exciting career opportunity with Kverneland Group, where innovation meets impact.
My job, Our future
VisionBeing a leading provider of intelligent and efficient farming systems contributing to sustainable agriculture, serving the world’s growing population.
MissionOur Mission is to develop, market and support products, systems, and services that are giving superior value to customers throughout the whole value chain. Our products & innovations shall contribute positively to the contractors and farmers’ development & long term success.
StrategyKverneland Groups Strategy is to work together with the professional farming community to develop the most efficient and cost effective solutions and services possible. Our goal is simply to make farmers work easier and more profitable by providing high quality machines, solutions for precision farming and professional after sales sales service.
Geremia Baratin | Contact Person
The Future of Farming
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