Finance Controller, Corporate Planning

Job Description

This role is a great opportunity to gain extensive knowledge of the LEGO Group's financial processes and grow a strong network across the organization!

You will play an important role in this, supporting the team with deliverables and collaborating broadly with finance colleagues around the world. It's a highly dynamic role with plenty of learning opportunities

Core Responsibilities

Our focus is to transform financial data into insights, driving transparency in decision-making for top management. You will play an important role in this, supporting the team with deliverables and collaborating broadly with finance colleagues around the world. It's a highly dynamic role with plenty of learning opportunities.

• Supporting the team with specific deliverables such as our monthly financial report and the follow-up of our strategic initiatives, ensuring the reports are fit for purpose and delivered in the right quality at the right time.
• Supporting the team by analysing and extracting insights regarding financial performance to drive recommendations and help steer the company.
• Becoming a strong partner towards the rest of the organization and taking an active part in bringing business insights into clear and actionable content.
• Connecting actual performance with financial outlooks and scenarios to provide relevant insights which form the foundation for management decisions.
• Support the continued development of our reporting, incl. digitalization in Power BI.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Corporate Reporting is a sub team within the Corporate Reporting & Planning team which is responsible for financial performance management, including reporting, planning, estimates, and continuous operational improvement.

You will be part of a fun and competent team consisting of 20 colleagues, of which 8 are sitting in the corporate reporting team. Our overall aim is to build value and drive business impact for our leadership through strong financial competence and business understanding. We collaborate closely with all Finance departments across the organization. You will gain a lot of new findings, get a deep end-to-end understanding of financial performance, and play an important part in delivering and elevating our financial reporting.

Do you have what it takes?

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Economics, Finance or similar combined with a background from Finance or Audit.
• Relevant experience within either FP&A or Business Finance in a global company, potentially as a student worker.
• Convert data and information into insights, choices and recommendations, making valuable Contributions to the business.
• Strong business understanding and can explain causality and translate the impact into business performance
• Able to communicate in a clear, concise, and timely manner
• Takes initiative and is curious to understand the details
• Ability and the desire to learn and grow, both personally and professionally.
• Speaks and writes English fluently.

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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