Senior Accountant

Job Description

Are you ready to join a team of fun-loving and interactive accounting professionals that is ready to delivery results in a timely manner?

Build your expertise in this important role and work for one of the most recognized and loved brands in the world.

Core Responsibilities

The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a shared service center that delivers HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from 3 primary locations: Monterrey, Kladno and Singapore and other satellite offices. The purpose of the BSO is to create an effective and efficient platform for growth and to support The LEGO Group strategy.

You will be responsible in ensuring all the daily transactional tasks are completed on time.

Primary tasks include:

• Daily Payment Posting
• Daily report on unallocated funds
• Proper documentation of Payment Advice from Collection Team
• Raise query on unclear allocation or deviation from remittance advice.
• Clearing/Maintaining/Offset Credit Note against Debit amount in Account.
• Cheque Processing (prepare bank slip and arrange courier etc)
• Reconciliation of GLs (AR related)
• Payment/Credit Transfer – moving payments/documents between accounts.
• Booking of Doubtful Debts
• Booking of Write Offs
• Month end Closing Activities
• Audit Confirmation - supporting auditor's requests for Subsequent Receipts
• Your Accountabilities and Responsibilities include:
• Initiate and lead enhancement activities for posting and clearing accuracy thus improving efficiency and productivity for the region.
• Find opportunities to automate the processes.
• Ensuring the payment posting of your Markets are meeting the critical metrics.
• Completing optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures

Play your part in our team succeeding:

To support the LEGO Group with consistent, high quality and customer-oriented execution of AR processes and partner management, and thereby enable the BSO to succeed in delivering great value to the LEGO organization.

The Senior Accountant plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO. We need employees, all eager to engage actively in building an impactful department, valuing collaboration, process excellence, quality, and fun in the everyday life.

Do you have what it takes?

• App. 5+ years of demonstrated working experience from Finance function and preferably experience in international accounting.
• Experience of working and driving a highly collaborative environment in a global setting, promoting coherence and the end-to-end perspective.
• Has significant business and market understanding (experience) both at operational and tactical level.
• Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key partners.
• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve desired outcome.
• Good influencing skill to garner partner’s support
• Good Crisis Management and able to contain issues effectively with good Problem-Solving skill.
• Confidence in making informed and justifiable decisions for own functional area.
• Microsoft Office
• SAP knowledge
• English at Advanced

Join the global LEGO® team.

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to 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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.
• 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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.