Senior Finance Manager, Global Cost Management

Job Description
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Are you passionate about people leadership and experienced in standardization and effective Planning of Overhead cost? Then join our amazing Team!

Core Responsibilities
You will be joining our Global Cost management team (GCM) anchored in Corporate Finance as people leader for our specialist team of 6. Our vision is to be Global experts in overhead management and through Centralized Overheads planning, Controlling & improved governance across the LEGO® Group!

With the big ambitions of the company, your area of impact continues to grow whilst you optimize, digitalize, and embrace technology. Your key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for budgeting and controlling of overhead cost across all entities.
• Be the main driver of identifying process gaps, implement new processes and improvements, and setting global planning principles and governance together with your colleagues.
• Work closely with key partner organizations and business customers to increase collaboration, service level and scope.
• Act as a key support of global productivity and ad hoc analysis and initiatives with impact across the Organization.
• Build infrastructure to efficiently drive, handle and govern finance processes such as annual and in-year planning, controlling, and ERP Systems Improvements.

Play your part in our team succeeding
With great influence and responsibility, you will facilitate:

• Standardization & efficiency of the financial planning processes and Overhead allocation across The LEGO Group in a new planning system to support our strategic objectives
• Deliver analytics and insights to enable trade-off and optimization dialogues
• Secure delivery of defined team key priorities e.g. within centralization, report excellence and improved process documentation.

Do you have what it takes?

• A master level degree combined with relevant experience from a similar senior role within financial planning and analysis, preferable as FP&A or Finance Business partner in a global company
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities and experience working with multiple partners where you have established positive relationships through clear communication and good partnership
• Experience as people leader is a plus, however not a must
• Speaks and writes English fluently

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000019351
• Category
  Finance