Chief Financial Officer (m/w/d)

Job Description

Global Wind Organisation (GWO) is seeking a strategic and experienced Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our Executive Team. If you're passionate about strengthening the financial sustainability of a global purpose-driven organisation, developing business models for long-term viability, and enabling informed decision-making through strong financial leadership and organisational insight, this is the opportunity for you.

Global Wind Organisation is a global non-profit body driving safety standards and training for the wind turbine industry, working towards an injury-free workplace and supporting sustainable growth in renewable energy. Our mission is to enable a safer energy transition as the globally leading body for standardised training and workforce development.

Standards help our industry work more efficiently and effectively. More than 210.000 technicians working within the wind industry receive GWO certified training, and we are on a path to expanding this workforce significantly, and to describing a broader set of standards they will be able to access at more than 500 third party certified training providers throughout the world. Our strategic focus on workforce development aims to increase the pool of GWO trained entry-level technicians and secure a workforce fit for the industry's long-term growth in construction, installation, operations, and maintenance.

How will you contribute?

As Chief Financial Officer, you will play a key role in ensuring GWO's financial sustainability, long-term viability, and organisational success. As a member of the Executive Team, you will provide enterprise leadership across financial strategy, planning, governance, risk management, and organisational performance. Working closely with the CEO, COO, Board, and other leaders, you will enable informed decision-making through strong financial management, enterprise planning, performance reporting, and organisational assurance.

In addition, you will lead GWO's enabling functions, including Finance, People & Culture, and Quality Management. You will ensure these functions provide effective governance, organisational capability, performance insight, and the support required to deliver GWO's strategic priorities. You will also ensure GWO maintains appropriate legal preparedness and strong organisational foundations. By connecting financial sustainability with strategic execution and organisational effectiveness, you will help ensure that GWO's decisions are financially sustainable, operationally achievable, and positioned to support the organisation's continued impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead GWO's financial strategy and support the evolution of its business model to ensure long-term sustainability, viability, and alignment with organisational objectives.
• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation across the organisation, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, funding, and investment decisions.
• Develop and strengthen approaches for treasury, reserves, liquidity, and investment management to support financial stability and long-term sustainability.
• Provide financial, organisational, and business insight to the Board and Executive Team to support decision-making and strategic direction.
• Establish organisational performance reporting that provides clear insight into financial health, strategic progress, and overall organisational sustainability.
• Develop and maintain financial governance, controls, compliance, and assurance frameworks that ensure integrity, transparency, legality, and accountability.
• Lead enterprise risk management and support organisational resilience through effective identification, monitoring, and mitigation of key risks.
• Support strategic initiatives through financial analysis, business case development, scenario modelling, and resource planning, ensuring strategic decisions are financially sustainable and operationally achievable.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction for GWO's enabling functions, including Finance, People & Culture, and Quality Management, while supporting the functional managers to ensure alignment with organisational priorities, strong governance, and effective delivery.
• Ensure appropriate governance of legal risks by assuring the organisation has adequate legal preparedness and access to relevant legal counsel when required.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the Board, auditors, advisors, regulators, financial institutions, suppliers, and other key external partners.

As our new colleague you are

An overall pleasant person, well grounded in healthy values and good interpersonal skills. You know the importance of communicating constructively, stay flexible and service minded, and are driven by a desire to make a difference.

What we expect

• A strong track record as a Chief Financial Officer or in a comparable senior financial leadership role within a complex organisation.
• Familiarity with Danish legal and regulatory frameworks and their application in practice.
• An international mindset, with experience working across multiple markets and diverse stakeholder environments.
• Deep expertise in financial strategy, enterprise planning, governance, and risk management.
• Leadership experience across cross functional or enabling functions beyond finance.
• Confidence operating at Board level, providing strategic insight, constructive challenge, and trusted advice.
• A strong understanding of organisational performance, governance, and long term sustainability.

If the above sounds interesting, you should join us!

GWO offers the following as a workplace:

• Purposeful work
• Flat organisation
• Work-life balance
• Continuous personal development
• Strong foundation for professional networking and sparring

Forward your application as soon as possible!

We are processing the applications as they reach us, you are therefore encouraged to apply today rather than tomorrow - by using the "apply" button.

If you have questions regarding the position, please reach out to Jakob Lau Holst at (+45) 2627 5503 or Jakob Bjørn Nielsen at (+45) 2529 1903. All queries are of course handled with discretion.

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. An alternative placement can be Herning. Business travel is an expected part of this role.