Finance Business Partner, CEEMEA (Maternity Cover)

Job Description

Strategic

• Business partner with the marketing and commercial teams to evaluate, plan and deploy strategic investments across Trade and Marketing for CEEMEA.

• Provide data-driven analysis, insight and recommendations, to support both tactical and strategic decision making. 

• Plan and control both marketing and trade investments working closely with the commercial teams.

• Identify and evaluate business risks and opportunities, communicating recommendations to senior partners.

Operational

• Ownership of financial reporting and planning processes with a specific focus on sales and investment performance to budget.

• Target settings process and co-owning financial performance.

• Perform ad-hoc analysis requested by management and use an analytical approach to adjust and improve value creation by rearranging financial information.

• Financial support to business collaborators.

Organizational

• Build a close relationship with the CEEMEA Finance team. Deliver to this reporting line requested financial information, analysis, and work closely and actively with commercial finance team members across CEEMEA.

• Building positive relationships with business collaborators across the region as their finance partners. 

• Close collaboration with Global M&C Finance team and Finance Business Partners from other teams.

• Collaboration with the BSO team on the financial processes.  

• Represent Finance in cases and cross-functional projects and bring in financial insights for better decision making. 

In the LEGO Group, you join a family-owned global business that offers a collaborative network. Here, you will gain an in- depth understanding of business processes in various
departments, from Sales and Marketing to Operations, HR and Finance. You get to collaborate with experienced colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds and develop your talent through a wide range of training opportunities and an individual development plan. At the same time, we will trust you to make decisions and get things done to the highest possible quality,
influencing business decisions and developments, thus making an impact !

• Degree or equivalent experience to at least Bachelor level, with subsequent accounting qualifications such as CIMA, ACA, or ACCA being advantageous.

• Consistent track record in finance business partnering roles, collaborating with senior team members.

• Must have worked with and delivered results within commercial finance roles (planning, reporting and analysis) preferably as a Finance Business Partner.

• Experience with SAP (FI, CO, BW modules) combined with advanced MS Excel and Power point skills.

• Flexibility to travel internationally (~2 times per year).

• Customer focus and consumer driven.

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to manage large data sets.

• Excellent written & verbal presentation and communication.

• Strong commercial foresight with a new way of finding mutually beneficial solutions. 

• Combines a well-developed analytical ability with tenacity to see ideas through to completion.

• A high level of integrity that delivers results when required, typically above expectations.

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and efficiently.

• Ability to contribute financial skills across business disciplines.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the confidence and maturity to network with people across different divisions, ,business units, time zones and cultures.

• Motivated to work with others and seek to understand other views.

The role is offered as a two- year fixed term contract based in Prague.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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