Senior Finance Manager, Our LEGO Agency

LEGO Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that values creativity and innovation! As a Senior Finance Manager, you will leverage your financial expertise to influence business decisions and drive marketing effectiveness. This role offers you the chance to partner with senior executives, navigate complex challenges, and contribute to a dynamic team dedicated to creating value across the marketing landscape. With a commitment to employee wellbeing and a supportive workplace culture, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a globally recognized brand. If you are ready to take on this challenge, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Qualifications

• Strong commercial understanding developed through finance experiences.
• Experience in business partnering in commercial or marketing finance.

Responsibilities

• Support marketing calendar and resource allocation.
• Influence marketing strategy and implement budget models.
• Act as trusted finance advisor to senior colleagues.

Skills

Business partnering

Commercial understanding

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Strategic mentality

Collaborative working style

Education

Finance experience

Experience in multinational organization

Job description

Job Description

Are you a finance professional who is passionate about using financial data and commercial acumen to influence business decision-making? Do you enjoy providing innovative solutions in one of the world's most beloved brands?

If so, we are looking for you to bring your business partnering skills to Our LEGO Agency, one of the world's biggest in-house marketing agencies!

Core responsibilities:

• Support the LEGO marketing calendar by driving an efficient allocation of marketing content resource allocation.
• Utilise data and insights to prioritise investments and deliver productivity savings.
• Influence future ways of working and respond to changes in LEGO Group marketing strategy.
• Implement budget scaling model underpinned by activity-based principles.
• Take full ownership of cost centre planning, forecasting and reporting.
• Be the trusted finance advisor to senior colleagues on the leadership team and stakeholders across the Marketing Value Chain.
• Dotted line management of Business Controller.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Our Lego agency team plays an instrumental role in ensuring value creation across the full market in value chain. As our senior finance manager, you will ensure the delivery of our promise, including preparation of the business plan and gatekeeping marketing investments at a global level. You can utilise your excellent intuition for business with finance expertise while acting as a strong finance business partner to senior executives.

Do you have what it takes?

Ideally, you have finance experience from a similar role in another multinational organisation and possess a strong commercial understanding developed through core commercial and marketing finance experiences. You will stand out as an outstanding candidate if you have:

• A consistent track record of business partnering experience in commercial or marketing finance as a senior manager within a global brand.
• Strong commercial business understanding.
• Navigated complexity and ambiguity with a wide variety of topics.
• Proven strategic mentality with a holistic point of view.
• Excellent analytical skills and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Collaborative working style with ability to prioritise and handle challenging timelines.
• Experience dealing with uncertainty and regularly changing environment.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, 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.

Join the LEGO team today.