Senior Finance Manager, Creative Play Lab

Job Description
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Are you a finance leader with a passion for business partnering and strategic thinking?
A unique opportunity has arisen within the global product development area of the LEGO Group to provide financial partnering and investment management expertise.

We are looking for a driven and passionate senior finance manager seeking to elevate their career at the LEGO Group. Along with the ability to support strategic and tactical decision making through insight and data, this role will partner closely with business leadership to help shape and define the future of play.

Core Responsibilities
of this role include:

• Partner with the Creative Play Lab (CPL) leadership team to evaluate, plan and deploy strategic investments.
• Partner with the Play Engineering VP to drive value across Technology based Products and Platforms.
• Lead the Business Case evaluation process for technology and play capability focussed projects.
• Support the Digital Domain lead in creating value hypotheses, follow up on key results and drive productivity savings with Digital products.
• Provide financial analyses, data and insight to support both tactical and strategic decision making.
• Identify and evaluate business risks and opportunities, communicating recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Our vision within Creative Play Lab is to create the future of play by building radically new, big and fun LEGO group experiences. This role plays a critical part in enabling this vision to succeed.

Do you have what it takes?
Master ́s degree or equivalent experience in finance, economics or similar with excellent results combined with:

• 8+ years working within finance business partnering roles, with extensive experience partnering senior stakeholders;
• Strong commercial business understanding, strategic thinking and acumen for investment management;
• Core financial process experience and expertise;
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complexity, both in terms of stakeholders and topics;
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to manage large data sets;
• Excellent written & verbal presentation and communication skills.

If you have experience within technology product development areas or just a keen interest in the field, we will also consider this a benefit.

What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• 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 – 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000016142
• Category
  Finance