Senior Finance Business Partner, Nordics

Lego Group; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to act as the Finance Business Partner for the Nordic business unit. You will lead core financial processes and provide strategic financial insight to senior leaders across Western Europe, helping maximize top-line and bottom-line performance.

Join the Nordic leadership team to strengthen governance, support investment decisions, and drive outcomes through clear analytics and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Led financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and closing processes (finance lifecycle).
• Turned financial analysis into clear recommendations that improved investment decisions.
• Delivered commercial finance and investment-effectiveness analysis to support business priorities.
• Built trusted relationships as a Finance Business Partner with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Act as Finance Business Partner for the Nordic business unit, driving financial insight.
• Lead core financial processes and strengthen governance across the unit.
• Support short- and long-term business results, influencing senior leaders across Western Europe.
• Balance trade-offs and provide actionable recommendations in ambiguous environments.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial analysis

Investment analysis

Finance partner

Decision analytics

Strategic finance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine helping shape the investment decisions that drive business performance across the Nordic market. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Senior Finance Manager, you'll act as the Finance Business Partner for the Nordic business unit, supporting the organisation in maximising top-line and bottom-line performance. You'll be a key member of the Nordic Leadership Team, bringing financial insight to business decisions, leading core financial processes, and strengthening financial governance. You'll help deliver both short- and long-term business results while influencing senior leaders across Western Europe.

Required Qualifications

• Led financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and closing processes.
• Turned financial analysis into clear recommendations that improved investment decisions.
• Delivered commercial finance and investment-effectiveness analysis to support business priorities.
• Built trusted relationships as a Finance Business Partner with senior business leaders.
• Used financial data to support trade-off discussions and business decision-making.
• Represented Finance within leadership discussions and contributed financial insight to strategic decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked end-to-end in a Consumer Goods finance role across supply, demand and core finance processes.
• Led improvements to financial governance, controls, or compliance processes while supporting commercial decision-making.
• Built trust and rapport quickly with cross‑functional business partners to turn analysis into action.

What you'll build

• Strong Finance Business Partner relationships across the Nordic business.
• High‑quality planning, forecasting and closing cycles that support business commitments.
• Better investment‑effectiveness decisions through clear analysis and recommendations.
• Stronger financial governance, controls and decision‑making practices.
• Greater agility in investment allocation to support changing business priorities.
• Financial insight that helps senior leaders balance trade‑offs in an ambiguous environment.

If you've worked in a role where you led annual target setting, in‑year estimates and month‑end or year‑end close activities, you'll feel at home here. If you've used data to influence trade‑off decisions with senior leaders and improved governance or investment decisions, you'll find plenty of opportunities to make an impact. What matters most is your ability to move from analysis to insight and build trusted relationships that help the business perform at its best.

Life on the team

You'll join the Markets & Channels Finance Business Partnering team within the CFO Organisation. Together, the team supports markets and channels in delivering the LEGO Group’s long-term vision and business results. The Western Europe team is diverse, collaborative and connected across locations, working closely toward shared goals. In this role, you'll act as a finance co‑pilot to the Nordic leadership team, particularly Sales and Marketing leaders. Success comes through clear communication, strong interpersonal skills, taking ownership, working comfortably through ambiguity, and being willing to stay close to the detail when needed.

What success looks like

You'll help the business navigate complex investment trade‑offs while championing investment effectiveness and productivity. You'll strengthen governance and internal‑control practices without losing focus on commercial outcomes. You'll work closely with the Nordic Leadership Team, Finance Business Partner colleagues and partners across the wider CFO Organisation.

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.
• Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
• Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

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 seeksto 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.

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.