Senior Finance Manager

Job Description

You will gain great end-to-end understanding and an immense network, and that makes this a phenomenal stepping stone for a career within the LEGO Group!

Our focus is to transform financial data into insights, driving transparency in decision-making for top management. You will play a vital role in this, by taking a leading role in the team, comfortably presenting and engaging with the CFO and collaborating broadly with finance colleagues around the world. It's a highly dynamic role and your daily tasks would include:

• Supporting the team leader by taking ownership of Management Reporting deliverables, ensuring they are fit for purpose and delivered in the right quality at the right time
• Becoming a strong partner towards the rest of the organization and building a broad network allowing you to extract relevant insights
• Using, analysing, and extracting insights regarding financial performance to drive recommendations and help steer the company.
• Preparing and synthesizing insights for senior management - Group CFO, Executive Leadership Team and the Board of Directors. This includes preparing deep-dive presentations for the leadership team, reacting to ongoing developments – both internally and externally
• Connecting actual performance with financial outlooks and scenarios to provide relevant insights which form the foundation for management decisions.
• Working with short-, medium- and long-term strategic priorities and support the continued development of our reporting, incl. digitalization and other innovation (incl. productivity and efficiency).

Corporate Reporting is a sub team within the Corporate Reporting & Planning team which is responsible for financial performance management, including reporting, planning, estimates, and continuous process improvement.

You will be part of a fun and competent team consisting of 20 colleagues, of which 8 are sitting in the corporate reporting team. Our overall aim is to build value and drive business impact for our leadership through strong financial competence and business understanding. We collaborate closely with all Finance departments across the organization. You will gain a lot of new learnings, get a deep end-to-end understanding of financial performance, and play an important part in delivering and elevating our financial reporting.

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Economics, Finance or similar combined with a background from Finance or Audit.
• Proven experience in a global organization, preferably with some experience within either FP&A or Business Finance.
• Convert data and information into insights, choices and recommendations, making valuable contributions to the business and can capably and comfortably present the insights to senior leaders, adjusting style and key messages to the audience.
• Strong critical thinking abilities by questioning initial assumptions and identifying gaps in information, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of financial narratives.
• Delivers high-quality outputs with minimal supervision, demonstrating the ability to work independently while effectively motivating and guiding the team to achieve project goals.
• Leads and drives strategic financial projects, contributing to the overall financial strategy and organizational objectives.
• Actively contributes beyond individual responsibilities, playing a collaborative role within the team and the broader Corporate Finance and CFO organization.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships within the organization to extract valuable insights and foster seamless collaboration, demonstrating strong partner management skills.
• Ability and the desire to learn and grow, both personally and professionally.
• Fluent English skills

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.

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