ARLA FINANCE

FINANCE CO-DRIVING VALUE CREATION

Arla Finance

In Arla Finance, our passion lies in managing our financial and sustainability performance to co-drive value creation. We bring together our expertise and sharp analytical skills to uncover insights that spark foresight and enhance business decisions. By harnessing the power of automation and digital analytics, we provide comprehensive data and insights that cover the entire value chain. Simultaneously, we strive to develop efficient and streamlined processes, ensuring reliable operations that boost value. By focusing on co-driving value creation, we remain vigilant of business risks and opportunities, fuelling sustainable value generation.

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“In Commercial Finance, I really get to use my financial skills in practice! Combining financial insights and commercial understanding is key to co-driving performance with the rest of the organisation in a fast-paced environment, very close to our products.”

Helle, Senior Finance Manager

Co-drive performance

In Arla Finance, we play a vital role in shaping crucial business decisions. We focus on things like setting product prices and allocating resources based on solid facts, insightful predictions, and a broad perspective. We are dedicated to improving our sources of information, such as sales data and consumer trends, to ensure accurate and easily accessible financial and non-financial data. We achieve this through robust and flexible processes like rolling forecasts and real-time analysis. By using reliable tools like regression analysis and predictive modeling, we create different scenarios that help us make quick and informed decisions on important matters like optimizing prices, improving products, and enhancing supply chain efficiency. We emphasize the use of clear visualizations like dashboards and charts, and we prioritize effective communication to promote understanding and collaboration among stakeholders.

Steer resource allocation

With a strategic focus on investing wisely in our business, our goal is to maximize the value of our farmers' milk and unlock growth opportunities. Our finance teams play a crucial role in co-creating and executing investment decisions. For example, we initiate targeted marketing campaigns and build energy-efficient production facilities. We carefully balance pursuing appropriate opportunities, like expanding our lactose-free range or adopting cost-saving technologies, while maintaining a cost-effective and financially responsible approach. In addition to investment decisions, we skillfully manage financial risks, such as fluctuating commodity prices, and ensure a resilient and sustainable business with sufficient liquidity. We achieve this through smart capital and funding structures, securing favorable credit terms, and optimizing working capital management.

Enable sustainability

In Arla, we understand that sustainability is essential for our long-term success. As a Finance team, we have a vital role in providing the framework to measure our sustainability performance, guide our sustainability efforts, and communicate effectively with consumers, customers, and other stakeholders. Our sustainability initiatives, including our Sustainability Incentive model, are fully integrated into our operations. We are consistently enhancing our performance management system to ensure a comprehensive approach from start to finish. We prioritize sustainability performance alongside financial performance, striving to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our work, from monitoring progress on our strategic goals to enhancing operational performance.

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Ensure efficient operations

Efficient and effective financial processes is crucial for supporting Arla’s future growth. We are always working to strengthen our core financial foundation through simplification, standardization, and automation. This allows us to maintain high quality and provide a great user experience in a more efficient way. To achieve this, we take a comprehensive approach to our financial processes, applying proven optimization methods and utilizing digital tools. We collaborate closely with functional experts and external partners to ensure the best results. This enables us to streamline activities such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and standard reporting, supporting our overall financial efficiency and contributing to the growth of Arla.

Guiding with expertise

In Finance, we have a team of functional experts who play a crucial role in providing strategic direction and addressing operational challenges across the organization. These experts specialize in areas such as Tax, Accounting, Risk, Controls & Compliance, and Treasury. They possess deep knowledge and work closely with the rest of the organization, offering proactive support and tailored services to meet the specific needs of each business area. With a global perspective, we stay informed about the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in order to provide strategic advice and valuable insights. This expertise enhances decision-making processes and contributes to the overall performance of our business.

"The recent external volatility has put the turbo on an already fast-paced work environment where tasks and topics change quickly, and where you really have the opportunity to challenge assumptions and ways of working,"

Jakob Fabrin Nielsen, Finance Manager, Strategic Finance

"Fund our Future is about driving performance by doing more with less, doing things smart, and creating positive impact, and as part of the project team, I get a front seat to Arla’s efficiency journey, working on new ways to continuously improve our everyday work,"

Victoria Draborg, Junior Business Analyst, Strategic Finance

"One of the coolest things about my job in the SG&A team is the huge impact we drive across the whole organisation. Our eyes are on optimizing Arla’s cost performance by setting and steering targets for Staff and Indirects,"

Helene Daugaard Hansen Dall, Finance Specialist, SG&A

"Building the Sustainability Incentive Model has been a true cross-functional and data-driven project. My primary responsibility was to provide valuable insights derived from farmer data to be used for management decisions, tests and forecasts on how different model specifications would play out,"

Karen Helle, Farm Sustainability data scientist, Business Partner Finance

"In Finance I’ve come a long way from checking an invoice status manually to co-developing robots that take the repetitive work out of my hands and let me support my Commercial colleagues with a solid analysis. I’m developing skills of the Accountant of the Future!"

Magdalena Majewska, Order to Cash expert, Shared Service Centre

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