Finance Manager, Brand & Marketing

• Location London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000017985

• Category Finance

Job Description

Are you a commercially driven professional who can share your finance wisdom with an accomplished team of non-finance change agents? We are looking for a finance star to join us to drive two global strategic initiatives within Product & Marketing Development area that will fundamentally change how the LEGO Group does business in the future!

Please note that no relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Be the go-to finance contact on two global strategic projects overseeing budgets, headcount and value planned and delivered

• Business Partner with senior stakeholders across Digital Consumer Engagement and Global Marketing Planning & Performance

• Focus on the activity and initiatives that will drive the most value whilst keeping an eye on the cost base and articulating this balancing act to the Steerco

• Harness your financial oversight and network to make connections across silos to ensure the best possible outcome and minimise duplication of efforts

• Maintain a keen eye for detail when supervising actuals and preparing estimates

• Be comfortable handling conflicting priorities, managing trade-offs and delivering sometimes difficult messages with tact and personality

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The Brand & Marketing Finance Team sits within the Global Product and Marketing Development Area (PMD).

As part of this team, The Finance Manager will be responsible for supporting 2 of our global critical initiatives within marketing transformation and digital consumer engagement spheres, closely collaborating with finance, strategy and marketing partners.

Do you have what it takes?

• Commercially minded, ideally with experience in project management, partnering with marketing or digital teams

• Demonstrated ability to work in a global & matrix structured organisation

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a multi-functional environment

• Comfortable navigating complexity with the judgement as to when to dig into the detail and when to look at the bigger picture

• Thrives in an environment where there is not always a clear answer, and a new path needs to be forged

• Ability to deliver high quality work even when tight deadlines are looming

• Natural curiosity and a strong willingness to learn and grow

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (in English) and the ability to engage, influence, persuade, align with your stakeholders

• Advanced user of Excel and PowerPoint

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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.

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

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