Job Description
Are you passionate about accounting and motivated by delivering high-quality, compliant financial processes in an international environment? Join the LEGO® Group BSO in Prague and become part of a General Ledger team!
Core Responsibilities
- Performing month-end closing activities, preparing journal entries, and maintaining general ledger records for assigned entities
- Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including supporting explanations, following up on outstanding balances, and taking corrective actions where needed
- Ensuring compliance with internal controls in line with LEGO guidelines and local tax and accounting legislation
- Supporting Team Leaders and FBP Controllers with ad hoc projects and analyses
- Understanding partner needs and providing high-quality financial support
- Supporting all audit-related activities, including internal audits, statutory audits, and tax audits
- Consistently adhering to company policies, accounting standards, and global processes
This is a temporary 18-month role located in Prague – Jinonice. Relocation assistance is not provided.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a shared service center delivering HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from three locations: Monterrey, Prague, and Singapore!
The General Ledger (GL) department interacts with a broad range of stakeholders across the LEGO organization and plays a vital role within BSO in supporting the EMEA region. The team is responsible for the compliant handling of the general ledger and related activities, requiring close collaboration with both internal and external partners.
Do you have what it takes?
- Professional working experience in a related financial role or a position with transferable capabilities
- Strong analytical skills with a detail and quality-oriented mindset
- Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to embrace change and a proactive “can-do” attitude
- Personal drive and initiative, with excellent collaboration skills and the ability to build trust and credibility with business partners
- Experience with SAP, Excel and Blackline
- Microsoft Excel at an experienced level
- Strong written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage
- SAP4Hana experience is an advantage
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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.
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What We Do
We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”. We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day. Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world. These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide. A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!
