Finance Manager Global Cost Management Team

2 weeks ago


Billund, Denmark LEGO Gruppe Full time

Job Description

Are you looking to elevate your financial skills and toolbox?

Be brave, curious, and focused Bring your finance expertise, business acumen, and analytical skills into play and impact how the LEGO Group centrally plans and controls overhead costs. Be responsible for developing our planning and reporting with a primary focus on salary costs. This role is very dynamic and fun as you will collaborate with finance colleagues around the world on a day-to-day basis.

Our team is committed to standardizing and optimizing the performance of core finance processes while driving productivity on overhead cost across the LEGO Group. We succeed through driver-based planning and reporting supported by our digital agenda

Core Responsibilities
  • Drive financial target setting and follow up on gaps in financial performance for salary costs across the LEGO Group.

  • Conduct detailed analyses on salary and people cost development to guide and steer the business.

  • Run specific projects and priorities within the Global Cost Management team to improve our planning and reporting with an explicit focus on automation and optimization of processes.

  • Prepare financial plans for current and future years.

  • Responsible for general controlling and month-end tasks.

  • Identify and track cost drivers to improve financial planning.

  • Act as a business partner within your area of responsibility.

Play your part in succeeding

Placed in our HQ in Billund, you will join a team of 14 dedicated and engaged colleagues working out of both London and Billund. We are organized in Business Service and Operations (BSO) and amongst other tasks set to centralize governance ownership, and we support the business with recommendations and benchmarks.

Do you have what it takes?
  • Hold a master's degree in economics or finance or equivalent experience combined with an analytic approach and the ability to translate something sophisticated into a simple storyline.

  • Bring experience from a Finance Manager or Finance Business Partner role where you have been involved in financial planning and analysis.

  • Motivated by identifying, driving, and acting on opportunities for improvements in execution and automation.

  • Open and agile with excellent collaboration and communication skills as well as comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment.

  • Advanced user of Excel and preferably has experience with and knowledge of Power BI.

  • Written and spoken English proficiency.

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 (e.g., 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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