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LEGO is hiring a Finance Manager, BSO Partnering & Controlling. The role involves working with Finance Business Partners to support financial controlling, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting, while driving process improvements and ensuring alignment across finance and operations teams within the LEGO Group's commercial organization.

Highlights

Support monthly and year-end closing activities ensuring accuracy in financial reporting.
Provide financial insights and analysis for Factory and Central Operations teams.
Prepare and review monthly performance reports, including variance analysis on costs, productivity, and KPIs.
Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and cost control for strategic projects.
Identify process improvement, standardization, and automation opportunities within operations finance activities.
Collaborate across finance and operations teams to maintain data consistency and alignment.
Requires advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint, SAP, and Power BI.
BA degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
Proven experience in financial controlling and/or finance business partnering with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Part of Business Service Operations (BSO) shared service center supporting LEGO globally from four locations.

Finance Manager, BSO Partnering&Controlling Full Description

Job Description

Bring your sharp analysis superpowers to the table and enable financial management of the LEGO Group's commercial organization!

Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will join the Finance Controlling & Planning organization and work closely with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) of our Operations Finance organization to enable smart decision-making through insights, structure, and collaboration. You will also:

Support monthly and year-end closing activities, ensuring accuracy and transparency in inancial reporting.
Support FBP's in providing financial insights and analysis towards Factory and Central Operations team
Prepare and review monthly performance reports, including variance analysis on cost, productivity, and operational KPIs.
Assist with budgeting, forecasting and cost controlling for strategic projects for factory and central teams Help identify opportunities for process improvement, standardization, and automation across operations finance activities.
Collaborate across finance and operations teams to ensure alignment and data consistency.

*This position is based in Monterrey, Mexico, and relocation assistance is not offered for this role.

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will become part of Business Service Operations (BSO), a shared service center that delivers Employee and Finance services to The LEGO Group from 4 locations; Monterrey, Prague, Singapore, and China.

The purpose of the BSO is to create an effective and efficient platform for growth to support our strategy and reach twice as many kids over the next 5-7 years. Joining this team means joining a top professional environment where the focus is on quality, learning, and collaboration.

You will play a key role in the evolution of the BSO roadmap, where we would like to bring and develop controlling, planning, and business partnering capabilities within the team to elevate further the finance services catalog.

Do you have what it takes?

BA degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, or related.
Proven experience of financial controlling and/or finance business partnering with the ability to conduct data analysis across multiple sources to support strategic decisions.
Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and Power BI skills
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Experience in encouraging collaboration and leading processes across cross-functional teams
Thrives in a complex landscape and is able to balance, and ensure alignment of, multiple objectives
Takes initiative, ownership, and drives things to a conclusion

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your workplace - You'll find this at the top of this advert and when you join the team, we'll confirm this with you.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow."

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for people with disabilities - LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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