Finance Business Partner (MT-role)

Your challenge

This role is a stand-alone and key pillar position in the OPCO Management Team, ensuring financial growth and strategic direction while acting as a trusted right-hand to the Managing Director. The Finance Business Partner combines financial expertise with business acumen to provide valuable insights that drive decision-making. Success in this role requires balancing strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution, managing financial processes while proactively shaping the company's growth. You will be responsible for financial management, reporting, and strategic planning, ensuring that financial insights drive business decisions. The role also involves supporting business unit directors with financial and strategic analysis, overseeing business development from a financial perspective, and managing key planning and forecasting processes. Key words are growth and change!

Finance & Reporting

• Generate financial reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with group standards
• Manage forecasting, financial planning, investments and profitability monitoring, including fixed costs and salaries
• Ensure timely and high-quality monthly and annual reporting to the ROCKWOOL Group
• Own and manage the Quaterly Business Review (QBR) process, ensuring alignment with strategic goals

Strategy & Business Development

• Take ownership of the annual strategy cycle, ensuring structured planning and execution
• Support the Managing Director as a key strategic advisor, providing financial and business insights
• Work closely with Business Unit directors, demonstrates business engagement, and is able to translate financial insights into strategic actions that drive growth
• Manage business development initiatives from a financial perspective, ensuring viability and long-term profitability
• Contributing to the development and realization of growth strategies and overall business results;

Team & Project Management

• Identify and realize costs savings within Lapinus and in cooperation with the factory
• Initiate and implement improvements by automation of reports
• Ensure full compliance; responsible for contracts and inter-opco service level agreements; facilitates Rockwool Group audits and follow up on outcomes.
• Represent the OPCO in group finance meetings, acting as the primary financial liaison
• Maintain a strong working relationship with ROCKWOOL Global Business Services
• Act as a challenging voice in the management team, balancing high-level strategy with operational execution
• Ensures coordination and commitment of plans and strategies with other Lapinus and/or Rockwool departments;
• Active member of an international Management Team and represent Lapinus in projects of Rockwool Group and international finance community
• Fosters a culture of financial and strategic awareness across the organization

Your profile

• Master in Finance, Business Management or MBA, strong background in finance, financial planning, and reporting;
• Proven strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate financial data into business decisions
• Experience in business development from a financial perspective
• Hands-on approach with the ability to balance operational and strategic responsibilities
• Strong ability to support and challenge BU directors, ensuring financial discipline and opportunity identification
• Excellent stakeholder management, both within the OPCO and at the group level

Lapinus as organization

Working at Lapinus means you become part of the ROCKWOOL Group. At Lapinus, 50 ambitious professionals work, primarily, from the headquarters in Roermond. The company is characterized by a broad range of business, product applications and markets.
 

The four business units of Lapinus:

• Automotive & OEM – Safe and sustainable applications for the automotive industry (brake pads) and industrial sectors (gaskets);
• Rockdelta – Protecting urban environments from vibrations and noise pollution caused by railways and roads;
• Prefab Building Systems – Prefab solutions for the housing shortage with high-quality, energy-efficient, and sustainable homes.
• Rainwater Systems – Creating climate adaptive urban environments (sponge cities) by offering solutions for water management.

Our fibre business within Automotive, OEM and Rockdelta is more mature, with well-established brands and products. The solutions offered by Rainwater Systems and Prefab Building Systems are innovative stone wool applications within ROCKWOOL and are now ready for further commercial growth! The goal of all our businesses is to tackle the (climate) challenges of modern living by contributing to a healthier, safer, more livable and sustainable urban environment.

What do we offer? 

Besides a very challenging job you will receive a good basic salary and bonus scheme, we also offer attractive secondary employment conditions with a collective pension scheme, holiday pay and a 13th month. To perform your job as best as possible, you have access to a lease car, laptop and iPhone. Lapinus encourages a healthy lifestyle and vitality for our employees through our cycling plan and offering a discount on your gym membership. Our work from home policy gives you flexibility to organize your work as optimally as possible. You receive 25 regular vacation days and accrue another 13 extra ATV days, which means there is sufficient time for relaxation next to work and room for arranging the work-life balance that suits you. Lapinus guarantees a good working atmosphere with an active staff association and of course the opportunity to purchase your own products at a reduced rate.  

How to apply 

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. 

We look forward to your application! Respond via the application button and we will be happy to talk to you. We will respond to your application as soon as possible. An online assessment is part of the application procedure, which consists of a skills and competency test. If you have any questions, please contact our Recruitment Manager Dave Coppen directly on +31 6 15 62 01 30 or email dave.coppen@rockwool.com.