Finance Business Partner for Politikens Forlag

Do you want to be close to the business and help drive its financial development in one of the Nordics' leading publishing companies?

As Finance Business Partner for Politikens Forlag you will become a central financial sparring partner for management and have responsibility for creating transparency, insights and a solid decision basis across the Danish and Nordic publishing business.

You will get close to both day-to-day performance and strategic decisions – from budgets, forecasting and KPI follow-up to business cases, investments, M&A and development of the business.

About JP/Politikens Hus and Politikens Forlag

JP/Politikens Hus is one of Scandinavia's leading media companies and includes publications such as Politiken, Jyllands-Posten, Ekstra Bladet, Watch media as well as Politikens Forlag, Saxo and the distribution company Dao.

Politiken Forlag is a separate business unit within JP/Politikens Hus with around 200 employees, with publishing across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In Denmark, Politikens Forlag constitutes the largest part of revenue and has recently expanded with the acquisition of the children's book publisher Bolden. In addition, the portfolio includes a publishing house in Sweden (Polaris) and a publishing house in Norway (Kagge).

The publisher is one of Denmark's largest and most award-winning publishing companies with a focus on fiction, non-fiction, memoirs and biographies, as well as journalistic books. The publication program includes around 300 new publications annually and is distinctly commercial with a strong emphasis on quality and bestsellers.

About the role

As Finance Business Partner you will be employed in JP/Politikens Hus’s finance function. You will be responsible for the Politikens Forlag business, where you will function as the business’s financial sparring partner. The role has a clear financial focus, where your primary responsibility is to ensure a well-founded data-driven decision basis for management and the business through budget follow-up, performance analyses and ongoing reporting.

You will be an integrated part of the finance function in JP/Politikens Hus, but work closely with the business and management of Politikens Forlag. You will have a central role in translating financial data and analyses into concrete recommendations and decisions and become an important sparring partner for the publishing house’s management.

Your primary tasks will be to

• Be the financial sparring partner for management at Politikens Forlag and challenge the business on performance and finances.
• Create one shared and transparent picture of the business’s financial performance across Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
• Drive budget, forecast and business planning and translate the development in the business into concrete recommendations.
• Analyze revenue, margins, costs, cash flow and other key value drivers.
• Identify risks, opportunities and improvement potentials and ensure they are translated into action.
• Prepare and follow up on business cases for investments and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute financially to M&A processes, including analyses, models, due diligence and integration.
• Ensure relevant, timely and accurate management reporting.
• Further develop KPIs, data foundations and reporting, including the use of AI and new digital tools.
• Drive ongoing improvements of processes, data quality and financial transparency.

We imagine that you

• Have several years of experience within FP&A, Business Partnering, controlling or equivalent financial role in a larger or more complex organization.
• Are analytically strong and commercially oriented and can translate complex financial issues into clear recommendations and decisions.
• Are experienced in classic financial applications and have experience with financial reporting and analysis.
• Have an interest in and preferably experience with applying AI and digital tools to create better data foundations, analyses and transparency in financial performance.
• Find it interesting to be involved in building analyses and to find relevant data yourself.
• Work in a structured and detail-oriented manner while maintaining the strategic overview.
• Can communicate financial analyses clearly and precisely to non-financial stakeholders.
• Have an interest in commercial business models and want to understand the operational and financial value drivers in a modern publishing business
• Are good at building relationships and can build trust with both financial and commercial colleagues while challenging the business constructively.
• Have a relevant academic background such as cand.merc, cand.oecon or similar in economics or finance.

What do we offer?

• A visible role with close access to the publishing leadership and a strong opportunity to influence decisions.
• Responsibility for developing and strengthening the Finance Business Partner role across a Nordic business.
• Opportunity to work with both performance management, business development, investments and M&A.
• A varied role where you get close to daily operations as well as long-term strategic priorities.
• An environment with high professional standards in JP/Politikens Hus and the opportunity to collaborate across the group.
• Flexible working arrangements and attractive employment terms.

Application

We do not work with a fixed application deadline and review applications on an ongoing basis. All inquiries are naturally treated confidentially.

Start date as soon as possible, and we therefore conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

Application deadline: 30 October 2026

Department: Rådhuspladsen 37 1785 København V.

Location: JP/Politikens Hus