Senior Finance Manager - Business Partnering - 12-month fixed contract

The LEGO Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global toy manufacturer is seeking a Finance Business Partner focused on Environmental Sustainability in London. You'll partner with teams to drive financial planning and governance for sustainability initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, extensive finance experience, and proficiency in digital tools like Power BI. The role offers a hybrid work policy and various employee benefits, including family care leave and a colleague discount.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a proven track record of interpreting financial and data insights.
• Extensive finance business partnering experience and motivated to drive value creation.
• Experience using digital tools to optimise finance activities.

Responsibilities

• Finance business partnering across Environmental Sustainability initiatives.
• Collaborate to build and maintain financing infrastructure.
• Drive financial planning for Environmental Sustainability investments.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Stakeholder management

Business partnering

Tools

OneStream

Power BI

Job description

Job Description

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Bring your passion for Sustainability and your strong Finance Business Partnering skills to play in this exciting role!

Get exposure to Senior Leadership and be part of our journey to become more Sustainable!

Please note that relocation support is not offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities

• You will be finance business partnering across our Environmental Sustainability agenda and initiatives, you will
• Collaborate across the finance organization to build and maintain the infrastructure to support our Environmental Sustainability aspirations
• Drive financial planning for investments in our Environmental Sustainability initiatives including linkage to activities, key results and outcomes
• Co-lead business decisions together with the Environmental Sustainability leadership team, being the challenger / gatekeeper and sounding board for financial risk / opportunities and investments
• Support the effective reporting of Environmental Sustainability investments and generate actionable insight
• Scope and implement activities to simplify core finance business partnering activities
• Actively contribute to the broader CFO Organisation agenda

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the Environmental Sustainability Finance Partnering area of the Operations Finance team in London office. This team partners with the Environmental Sustainability workstreams.

We ensure our Sustainability investments are transparent, well governed and are driving strong value outcomes consistent with our strategic priorities.

We also play a key leadership role in helping to support the broader Environmental Sustainability journey across the LEGO Group.

Do you have what it takes?

To be successful in this role we imagine that you are able to demonstrate a robust financial partnering proficiency including understanding of business case development, budgeting processes and accounting principles. Moreover you have :

• Strong analytical skills with a strong end to end business understanding with good proven track record of being able to interpret and utilise financial and data insights
• Have strong communication, collaboration, networking, and stakeholder management skills which will be vital for you to ensure alignment and challenge the business areas.
• Extensive finance business partnering experience and motivated to use your financial expertise to drive value creation with your business partners.
• Experience in using digital tools (e.g. OneStream, Power BI) to optimise and improve finance activities
• Comfortable operating independently and within a global network.

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 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.

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.

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