Job Description
Join our GL EMEA team as a Senior GL Financial Controller and take a key role in driving financial excellence during an exciting expansion phase at the LEGO Group!
This role combines strong technical ownership with strategic project involvement, requiring a confident professional who thrives in change, enjoys influencing partners and wants to contribute to the long-term evolution of our finance organization.
Core Responsibilities
As a Senior GL Financial Controller, you will take end-to-end ownership of critical financial processes while actively contributing to expansion, integration and change initiatives:
- Supporting and leading project related to expansion, process improvements, and change management, contributing to the future shape of GL operations
- Building strong partnerships with partners across functions and geographies, acting as a trusted finance partner
- Reviewing and overseeing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, clear explanations, and timely resolution of open items
- Taking ownership of internal and external reporting, including audit coordination and responses
- Approving journal entries, ensuring correct classification, completeness, and compliance with local accounting standards
- Performing advanced variance and risk analysis to ensure financial statements are accurate and free from material misstatements
This is a temporary 18-month position, created as part of a strategic GL expansion project. The role is based in Prague – Jinonice (relocation assistance is not provided).
As LEGO Business Service Operations continues to grow, this role offers a great opportunity to build visibility, experience and long-term career potential within the organization.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a shared service center delivering HR and Finance services across the LEGO Group from Monterrey, Prague, and Singapore. The General Ledger (GL) department plays a pivotal role in ensuring high-quality financial processes and meaningful collaboration across the organization.
Do you have what it takes?
- Proven experience in General Ledger and Controlling.
- Solid experience in an international accounting environment.
- Extensive experience leading projects in a dynamic setting, including change management initiatives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and ERP systems, preferably SAP.
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and committed to quality.
- Proactive, curious, and eager to take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
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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!
