Finance Director, Western Europe B2B E-Commerce

1034 LEGO Company Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Finance Director, Western Europe B2B E-commerce to act as a strategic finance partner within the leadership team of Western Europe’s largest business unit. You will drive topline growth, improve EBIT and ensure robust financial governance across markets.

Leading budgeting, forecasting and investment governance, you will influence senior leaders and shape the future B2B E-commerce strategy while balancing growth, margin and return in a globally connected environment.

Qualifications

• Led commercial finance and FP&A to support business performance.
• Provided performance insights across multiple markets.
• Managed budgeting and forecasting enabling accurate planning.
• Acted as Finance Business Partner to senior leaders.
• Led discussions on investment governance and effectiveness.
• Influenced decisions through financial analysis and steering.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong financial insight to support value creation across 10 markets.
• Make trade-off decisions between growth, margin, investment and return.
• Improve investment productivity and ROI.
• Establish robust governance and performance management.
• Drive progress on profitability path for the business unit.
• Ensure accurate planning, forecasting and close processes.

Skills

Commercial finance leadership

FP&A

Investment governance

Stakeholder management

Tools

ERP systems

Advanced Excel

BI / data analytics

Job description

About the role

Just imagine that you can shape one of our biggest businesses in Western Europe while balancing growth, margin, investment and return across multiple markets. Then make it real. As our Finance Director, Western Europe B2B E-commerce, you'll act as the strategic Finance Business Partner and co-pilot to the VP B2B E-commerce Western Europe, representing Finance within the leadership team of one of Western Europe's largest business units. You'll help drive sustainable topline growth, structural EBIT improvement and strong financial governance, steering performance and value creation across multiple countries.

Required Qualifications

• Led commercial finance and financial planning activities to support business performance.
• Delivered performance insights to support growth, profitability and value creation across multiple markets.
• Managed budgeting and forecasting processes that enabled accurate business planning.
• Acted as Finance Business Partner to senior commercial leaders and leadership teams.
• Led discussions on investment effectiveness and financial governance without direct reporting authority.
• Influenced business decisions through financial analysis and performance steering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Improved the ROI and productivity of commercial investments, including trade investment and demand-generation levers.
• Worked in an international, multi-market commercial finance environment.
• Built strong partnerships across cross-functional leadership teams.
• Balanced growth and profitability objectives in a growing business environment.

What you'll build

• Strong financial insight that supports value creation across 10 markets.
• Effective trade-off decisions between growth, margin, investment and return.
• Greater commercial investment effectiveness and improved productivity.
• Robust financial governance and performance management processes.
• Sustainable progress on the business unit's path to profitability.
• Accurate planning, forecasting and close processes that support business commitments.

If you've worked in a role where you partnered closely with senior leaders, led commercial finance and planning activities, and used data to steer important business decisions, you'll feel at home here.

You will also bring extensive experience in finance, a strong commercial mindset and a track record of influencing decision-making through insight.

What matters most is your ability to connect financial analysis with business action.

Life on the team

You’ll join the Western Europe Markets & Channels Finance Business Partnering team and become a key member of the B2B E-commerce Leadership Team. The team works across markets to drive sustainable growth, profitability and strong financial governance.

With a hybrid rhythm and colleagues across locations, success comes from building relationships, communicating clearly and taking ownership while remaining comfortable navigating ambiguity and change.

What success looks like

You’ll help the business make smarter investment decisions, strengthen returns on commercial investments and advance its path to profitability.

Over the next 12–18 months, the focus will be on defining the future B2B E-commerce strategy, accelerating value creation and supporting long-term growth.

You’ll work closely with the VP B2B E-commerce, the Western Europe Head of Finance, the B2B E-commerce Leadership Team and Finance Business Partner colleagues across the region.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 day1 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.

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.

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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