Job Description
Are you interested in becoming the Finance Leader of one of the LEGO® Group’s key regions? This is a unique opportunity to drive strategic direction, financial leadership, and operational delivery on a global scale!
Core Responsibilities
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Be the Head of Western Europe (WE) Finance and a trusted Finance Business Partner to the WE President.
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Co-lead business and organizational decisions together with the WE Leadership Team.
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Bring end-to-end strategic leadership & operational expertise enabling delivery of critical business objectives.
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Drive accountability, use insights & analytics, and constrictively challenge to deliver sustainable business growth and financial performance.
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Be a stewardship champion leading others in crafting and operationalizing effective governance models.
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Lead, enable, empower and develop a team of finance leaders across the region.
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Actively contribute to the Markets & Channels Finance Partnering Leadership Team helping build partnering capabilities across the broader finance organization.
Play your part in our team succeeding
Our Finance Ambition is to be Trusted Business Partners who support and contribute to our mission by:
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Co-driving and co-owning business decisions, productivity improvements, using strong commercial and functional expertise to enable sustainable value creation.
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Identifying business and financial insights, and turning them into action highlighting analytical, communication and digital capabilities.
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Being mature stewards for risk management effectively marrying business objectives with strong governance & compliance.
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Being continuously dependable and effective in operating financial processes and day to day finance delivery.
Do you have what it takes?
The successful candidate is a strong business and people leader with a solid background within Finance, excelling in the following areas:
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Business Leadership - Strong track record of strategic commercial contributions, operational excellence and sustainable results in collaboration with multifunctional partners at senior levels
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Financial Acumen - End to end toolbox developed through 15+ years of Finance practice with experience in business partnering roles in a global context.
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Partner Management - Strong listener, communicator and influencer, actively engaging across organization, comfortable in sharing their point of view and leading constructive conflicts, also with more senior counterparts.
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People Leadership - Consistent record of leading, enabling and developing highly effective global teams and championing diversity and inclusion.Purposeful and efficiency focused approach.
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Curiosity and agility to continuously learn.
Optional/'Nice to have' experience:
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eCommerce and “brick & mortar” focused roles.
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B2B and D2C.
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Digital transformation / enablement in Finance.
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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. For all candidates, 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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