Financial Master Data Specialist

Job Description

Are you passionate about LEGO® bricks? Would you like to work for a company whose products bring happiness to millions of children and adults all over the globe ? Based in our BSO offices this is an opportunity to maintain accounting financial data and support colleagues across the business.Core Responsibilities

• Govern and maintain accounting and financial master data in SAP and Blackline.

• Perform admin tasks in Blackline and support end users with more complex change requests.

• Test and implement new processes and system functionalities.

• Consistently adheres to company guidelines and policies.

• Support improvement, standardization, automation, and maintenance of the end-to-end processes related to financial master data.

• Building and strengthening basic stakeholder relations across areas and geographies including collaboration and culture including Financial Business Controllers, Treasury, CRBC, Tax, Group Reporting and General Ledger colleagues.

• Participate on ERP transformation to SAP S/4HANA.

Play your part in our team succeeding.

The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a Shared service centre that delivers HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from 3 locations; Monterrey, Prague and Singapore.
The General Ledger (GL) department interacts with great parts of the LEGO organisation and therefore holds an important role within the Business Service Operations (BSO) supporting the
EMEA region.The team is responsible for compliant handling of the general ledger and all engagements related hereto, which involves natural interaction with a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders.
 

The departmental focus is on:
 

• Make sure we live our partner promise by ensuring high quality, stewardship and full compliance with the LEGO Groups current Accounting Policy and global processes.

• Ensure timely, accurate and reliable transactional data recorded in general ledger and timely reconciliation of all accounts.

• Support internal and external collaborators with insightful and value-adding financial analyses, recurring statements and reporting bringing value to the overall business.

The General Ledger department supports The LEGO Group with consistent, high quality and customer oriented execution of GL processes and stakeholder management, and thereby enables the BSO to succeed in delivering phenomenal value to the LEGO organization. The Specialist plays a meaningful role in developing the best of class GL department within the BSO. We need development-oriented individuals, eager to engage actively in shaping and strengthening a high-performing department, valuing collaboration, process excellence, quality and fun in everyday life.

Do you have what it takes ?

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance or other similar education.

• Experience with the FI & CO modules in SAP and / or Blackline tool

• 3+ years of proven working experience with financial, preferably accounting processes.

• Microsoft Office at advanced level.

• Analytical, detail and high-quality oriented.

• Be robust, resilient and ability to embrace changes, as well as having a proactive mind with a can-do attitude.

• Proven self-motivation and initiative, excellent collaboration abilities, and a history of developing trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other customers.

• Strong written and spoken English

• Ability to provide sparring and governance on master data related matters

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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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.