Senior Finance Manager - LEGO.com

the LEGO Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading toy manufacturer is seeking a Senior Finance Manager based in London. This role involves financial analysis, performance management, and business case preparation, contributing to the growth of the eCommerce sector. Ideal candidates will possess strong financial partnership experience and be proficient in financial modeling and data management. This position offers a range of benefits including family care leave, insurances, and a generous employee discount with a hybrid working policy.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in an eCommerce business is required.
• Ability to understand financial metrics.
• Comfort with complex data.
• Initiative to solve problems independently.
• Experience in omnichannel retail is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage FP&A processes and performance analysis.
• Drive digital marketing investment effectiveness.
• Ensure accuracy of distribution cost forecasts.
• Lead finance for business proposals.
• Promote productivity mindset across P&L.

Skills

Finance business partnering experience

Analytical skills

Business and financial models development

Data navigation and insights

Problem-solving

Strong communication skills

Proficiency in SAP

Experience with Power BI and Tableau

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Senior Finance Manager - LEGO.com

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• Locations

• Billund, Denmark

• London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000026709

• Category Finance

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager at LEGO.com to join our LEGO Retail Finance team, based in London. You will be responsible for proactively partnering with the LEGO.com leadership team, providing informative analysis, challenge and influence to drive the growth of LEGO.com in a financially balanced manner.

Core Responsibilities

• FP&A & Performance management : ownership of LEGO.com FP&A processes including forecasting, risk & opportunities and review monthly commentary on performance.

• Digital Marketing : drive effectiveness of digital marketing investments and support the business with investment decision-making.

• Distribution : ensure transparency of distribution costs, understand the key drivers and helping to improve forecast accuracy.

• Business cases: finance lead in assessing business proposals and business case preparation (eg market expansions, new shopper offerings, etc.)

• Productivity: drive productivity-mindset within the business across all areas of the P&L– from identification of opportunities through to realization and tracking.

• Governance & Control : identify control gaps and drive corrective action to ensure processes and systems are functioning effectively.

• People leader: 1 direct report.

Play your part in our LEGO Retail team succeeding!

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

Do you have what it takes?

• Finance business partnering experience within an ecommerce business.

• An analytical demeanour with the ability to identify underlying performance drivers and understand links between commercial and financial metrics.

• Ability to develop robust business & financial models for cases and assessing business proposals.

• Comfortable navigating complex data to unlock actionable insights and provide “so-what” recommendations.

• Ability to problem-solve/ self-starter and use one’s own initiative to proactively and get to the root cause of issues and make improvements/recommendations.

• Strong collaborator management, communication, storytelling and presentations skills with ability to flex communication style depending on audience.

• Proficient in SAP; phenomenal data skills with experience/willingness to learn to use tools such as Power BI and Tableau, at ease handling sophisticated data sources.

• Experience in an omnichannel retail business would be very advantageous.

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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.

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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