Internal Controls Manager (Audit/Risk Management)

Job Description
Are you passionate about enhancing processes to manage risk effectively while adding real value? Do you want to bring your expertise to a company that values creativity, learning, and a shared sense of purpose?

Join us on our journey to expand our Center of Excellence, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening resilient, transparent practices that reflect our values and support our global mission. Together, we’ll build a culture that balances risk with opportunity and embraces improvement at every step.

Why This Role Matters
In this role, you’ll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and evolving a best-in-class risk and control framework for financial reporting. You’ll not only drive key initiatives but also influence our company culture by embedding a strong risk and control mindset across teams. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll help shape our approach to compliance, create value-adding controls, and optimize our processes to align with both industry standards (COSO framework) and the company’s mission.

What You’ll Do

• Elevate Process Governance: Lead the enhancement of our risk and control matrix with an end-to-end perspective, ensuring process excellence and governance.
• Advisor on Risk & Controls: Be a trusted partner for our stakeholders, providing insight, recommendations, and proactive guidance on risk and control improvements that balance compliance with process efficiency.
• Influence at the Executive Level: Report key insights to top management on risk exposure, control effectiveness, and compliance, contributing to transparency and strategic decision-making.
• Strengthen Audit Readiness: Support stakeholders during internal and external audits, helping to demonstrate a culture of compliance and robust control.
• Inspire Cultural Leadership: Champion a culture that prioritizes risk management and governance, promoting high standards and aligning with our organizational values.

Why You’ll Love This Role
You’ll be part of a collaborative, global team dedicated to innovation and excellence. By working in the Analytics & Control team, you’ll drive real impact by connecting business goals with risk management initiatives. This role also focuses on sustainable practices, giving you the chance to contribute meaningfully to our organizational mission and make a difference within and beyond our team.

What We’re Looking For

• Educational Background: Relevant degree (Cand. Merc. Aud. or similar) with at least 5 years in an international audit firm or a global organization.
• Curiosity & Innovation: A natural curiosity and eagerness to understand complex processes, challenge the status quo, and seek improvements.
• Expertise in Risk & Control: A solid foundation in 2nd Line of Defense activities, including designing and implementing controls.
• Change Management Skills: Proven experience in communicating and training teams to foster a risk and control mindset.
• Results-Oriented: A record of delivering impactful results, continuously growing your functional expertise.
• Exceptional Communication & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with a natural ability to foster team success through collaboration.
• Ethical Leadership: Unwavering integrity, confidentiality, and commitment to high ethical standards.
• Flexible Travel: Available for limited travel, up to 3 weeks per year.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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.

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.

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• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000020675
• Category
  Legal, Compliance & Audit