Senior Finance Manager Global Stores

LEGO Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the LEGO Group as a Senior Finance Manager for Stores in London, where you'll play a pivotal role in influencing financial performance across almost 200 retail locations. You will engage with senior stakeholders, lead financial reporting, and shape strategic decisions that impact our global retail operations.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Generous colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Strong ability to influence senior commercial and operational stakeholders.
• Experience in translating data into strategic insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational and project management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Shape the financial performance of LEGO stores.
• Provide strategic business partnering to senior leaders.
• Present analytical work and influence decisions.
• Drive financial reporting and improve data quality.

Skills

Business partnering

Data analysis

Communication skills

Project management

Analytical mindset

Finance experience in retail

Influencing stakeholders

Proficient in SAP

Tools

SAP

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager for Stores to join the LEGO Group Retail Finance team, based in London. The role reports into the Stores Finance Director. This role is at the heart of key strategic decisions for LEGO Retail Stores – translating data into action, challenging the status quo, and helping shape the future of almost 200 stores across Americas & Europe. It’s a unique opportunity to have an impact at scale, while collaborating with passionate teams across the globe.

Core responsibilities

• Play a strategic leadership role in shaping the financial performance of almost 200 owned-and-operated LEGO stores.

• Provide strategic business partnering to the Head of Americas & EMEA Stores and Regional Directors, offering financial insights & challenge to drive operational and commercial decisions.

• Present high-impact analytical work and recommendations to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions related to store performance, labour costs and portfolio management.

• Own and drive the financial performance reporting for AMS & EMEA store operations, ensuring accurate and insightful monthly P&L updates and executive-level reporting.

• Lead the productivity agenda for the LBR network, partnering with Retail Excellence and regional store leadership to validate assumptions, monitor execution and assess impact against Year-To-Go (YTG) targets.

• Coordinate the quarterly portfolio review process across AMS & EMEA, including LFL & store performance and investment efficiency tracking.

• People leadership: Coach, supervise and develop the Store Finance Controller, building analytical and business partnering capabilities within the team.

• Oversee and continuously improve store-level reporting tools and data systems, in collaboration with the broader finance team and A&I, to drive automation and data quality.

Play your part in our LEGO Retail team succeeding!

LEGO Retail is a global market group covering Direct-to-Consumer channels, including almost 200 owned and operated retail stores in Americas, Europe and China and our LEGO.com website across 35 countries. It is one of the fastest growing and most profitable channels of The LEGO Group and it is a global business! The LEGO Retail business is supported by the LEGO Retail Finance team which consists of ~20 colleagues based across Europe, Americas and Asia.

Do you have what it takes?

• Strong business partnering experience, with the ability to influence senior commercial and operational stakeholders across markets.

• Proven ability to translate data into strategic insights that drive decision making and performance improvement.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, confident in preparing executive-level materials and leading discussions.

• Strong organizational and project management skills, able to prioritize effectively and manage cross-functional deliverables.

• Analytical mindset, enjoying getting to the root causes of issues and making recommendations for improvements in a highly collaborative way.

• Finance experience in a retail/consumer goods business would be very advantageous.

• Comfortable challenging and influencing key partners.

• Proficient in SAP and PowerPoint.

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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 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.

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