Job Description
Just imagine a trusted, agile finance operations model that gives teams greater budget flexibility, stronger governance and driving commercial impact across Europe. Then make it real.
About the role
As our Senior Manager, Finance Operations Europe, you'll lead the centralisation of media finance operations across Europe, overseeing the full finance lifecycle from purchase order creation through to invoice reconciliation. You'll play a key role alongside the digital media teams who plan, buy and deliver campaigns that support LEGO® business objectives while maintaining strong financial governance.
This role combines operational leadership with process improvement, system adoption and stakeholder partnership across marketing, media, and finance teams. You'll also play an important role in shaping future media finance capabilities as new regions and operating models come into scope.
Required experience
- Led purchase order creation, financial reporting and invoice management processes
- Delivered finance operations transformation programmes involving procurement workflows, PO governance and invoice reconciliation
- Worked with finance and procurement platforms supporting PO governance and invoice reconciliation
- Built trusted partnerships with business unit and local market stakeholders during to adopt new finance processes, ways of working and systems
- Coached and developed junior finance operations specialists
Preferred knowledge
- Managed finance operations supporting digital media planning, buying or activation
- Supported media budget management and invoice reconciliation within a marketing organisation
- Supported implementation of relevant marketing technology platforms and workflow improvements
- Worked across multiple European markets to standardise operational processes
What you'll build
- A centralised approach to purchase order creation and invoice management across Europe
- Stronger financial governance and budget transparency across media investments
- Future-state processes that enable greater cross-channel budget optimisation
- Trusted partnerships with business units, markets and finance stakeholders
- Adoption of evolving finance systems and operational improvements
- A capable team of finance operations specialists who can work independently
If you've worked in a role where you owned complex finance operations, managed large budgets and delivered process improvements at scale, you'll feel at home here. Experience supporting procurement workflows and leading PO governance, invoice reconciliation and transformation programmes will help you succeed. What matters most is your ability to combine operational excellence with stakeholder engagement and lasting change.
Life on the team
You'll join the Global Media Activation team within the Marketing organisation. The team enables the LEGO Group's in-house digital media organisation through operational excellence across finance, process and technology. You'll help shape future capabilities, influence transformation initiatives and support productivity improvements across the business. We work in a hybrid rhythm, collaborating closely across global, regional and market teams with a strong focus on capability building, process standardisation and continuous improvement.
What success looks like
Success means mastering the existing processes and platforms, tackling the challenge of centralising finance operations, introducing new systems and ways of working, and strengthening governance across a growing media investment landscape. Over the next 12–18 months you'll support the continued rollout and optimisation of the LEGO Group’s bespoke marketing investment management platform, further centralisation of finance operations capabilities and ongoing select transformation initiatives. You'll work closely with regional activation teams, local marketeers, finance partners, media operations colleagues, external agencies, media platforms and two Finance Operations Specialists.
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.
Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.
Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here
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.
Skills Required
- Experience leading purchase order creation, financial reporting, and invoice management processes
- Experience delivering finance operations transformation programs involving procurement workflows, purchase order governance, and invoice reconciliation
- Experience working with finance and procurement platforms supporting purchase order governance and invoice reconciliation
- Experience building partnerships with business unit and local market stakeholders to adopt new finance processes, ways of working, and systems
- Experience coaching and developing junior finance operations specialists
- Experience managing finance operations supporting digital media planning, buying, or activation
- Experience supporting media budget management and invoice reconciliation within a marketing organization
- Experience supporting implementation of marketing technology platforms and workflow improvements
- Experience working across multiple European markets to standardize operational processes
The LEGO Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The LEGO Group and has not been reviewed or approved by The LEGO Group.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive across many roles and markets, with benchmarking against local markets and an expressed commitment to equal pay. Total compensation is often framed as stronger when considering the full package rather than base salary alone.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably expansive, with substantial fully paid time for primary and secondary caregivers and additional paid caregiver leave. Leave is also described as continuing to accrue other rewards such as vacation and bonus eligibility during the leave period.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Benefits are described as extending beyond core insurance into mental health and wellbeing support, including assistance programs, mindfulness resources, ergonomic setups, and fitness-related offerings. Brand-specific lifestyle perks such as sizable product discounts are highlighted as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
The LEGO Group Insights
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!
