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Are you interested in making a direct impact on a global company through data, while honing your business knowledge? Play a vital part in helping one of the world’s best-selling and most reputable toy brands reach more children!
A truly exciting opportunity has arisen to join our LEGO® Retail Finance team for a period of around 12 months. We are looking for a highly driven, curious, and analytical individual with a passion for numbers and data. Come and join us at the LEGO Group.
Core responsibilities
Play a pivotal role in supporting the marketing team:
- Act as the go-to person and own the data inside the marketing budget; Work closely with teams to ensure that budgets are updated frequently and accurately.
- Assist with queries on the systems and tools used.
- Perform journals monthly as part of the month end process.
- Drive accountability with POs and reduce the occurrence of unidentified costs.
- Lead monthly drop-in sessions to address questions related to the budget process.
- Conduct budget system training sessions for new starters.
- In addition you will be key project support for the LEGO® Retail Finance team:
- Supporting on Adhoc activities e.g. digitization of stores reporting
- Help drive the digitalization of Finance in 2022 and build at least one key financial report in an efficient and business-focused way.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
- To work as part of a high performing global fianance team
- Gain exposure to a number of data tools and how to apply them in a business setting.
- Gain an understanding of the P&L and have your work utilized to help make data driven business decisions
Play your part in our team succeeding
The LEGO® Retail Finance team consists of 14 colleagues based across Europe, China and the US.
The Global LEGO® Retail business is responsible for Direct-to-Consumer Channels (E-comm and stores), Retail Development, Travel Retail and Model Production
Do you have what it takes?
- Working towards a bachelor’s or Master’s degree and hold strong numerical A levels ( or equivalent) .
- Be a good communicator and confident with presentations.
- Have strong organizational skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and perform multiple tasks optimally.
- Be familiar with MS Excel (e.g., pivot tables, look-ups, macros, etc.) and visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
- Fluent English – C2
Join the global LEGO® team
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 insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes 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.
- Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.
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.
Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.
"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”. In order to succeed within this role (and the wider team), you will need resilience, a good mix between creative thinking and analytical structure without losing sight of your purpose
