Job Description

An outstanding two year fixed-term contract opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner within the LEGO Group ‘Markets and Channels’ Finance Team. Supporting the Marketing and Commercial Teams within the Central Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEEMEA) Market Group, the role is based in Prague.

Core Responsibilities
 

Strategic

• Business partner with the marketing and commercial teams to evaluate, plan and deploy strategic investments across Trade and Marketing for CEEMEA.

• Provide data-driven analysis, insight and recommendations, to support both tactical and strategic decision making. 

• Plan and control both marketing and trade investments working closely with the commercial teams.

• Identify and evaluate business risks and opportunities, communicating recommendations to senior partners.

Operational

• Ownership of financial reporting and planning processes with a specific focus on sales and investment performance to budget.

• Target settings process and co-owning financial performance.

• Perform ad-hoc analysis requested by management and use an analytical approach to adjust and improve value creation by rearranging financial information.

• Financial support to business collaborators.

Organizational

• Build a close relationship with the CEEMEA Finance team. Deliver to this reporting line requested financial information, analysis, and work closely and actively with commercial finance team members across CEEMEA.

• Building positive relationships with business collaborators across the region as their finance partners. 

• Close collaboration with Global M&C Finance team and Finance Business Partners from other teams.

• Collaboration with the BSO team on the financial processes.  

• Represent Finance in cases and cross-functional projects and bring in financial insights for better decision making. 

Play your part in our team succeeding

In the LEGO Group, you join a family-owned global business that offers a collaborative network. Here, you will gain an in- depth understanding of business processes in various
departments, from Sales and Marketing to Operations, HR and Finance. You get to collaborate with experienced colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds and develop your talent through a wide range of training opportunities and an individual development plan. At the same time, we will trust you to make decisions and get things done to the highest possible quality,
influencing business decisions and developments, thus making an impact !

Do you have what it takes ?

• Degree or equivalent experience to at least Bachelor level, with subsequent accounting qualifications such as CIMA, ACA, or ACCA being advantageous.

• Consistent track record in finance business partnering roles, collaborating with senior team members.

• Must have worked with and delivered results within commercial finance roles (planning, reporting and analysis) preferably as a Finance Business Partner.

• Experience with SAP (FI, CO, BW modules) combined with advanced MS Excel and Power point skills.

• Flexibility to travel internationally (~2 times per year).

• Customer focus and consumer driven.

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to manage large data sets.

• Excellent written & verbal presentation and communication.

• Strong commercial foresight with a new way of finding mutually beneficial solutions. 

• Combines a well-developed analytical ability with tenacity to see ideas through to completion.

• A high level of integrity that delivers results when required, typically above expectations.

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and efficiently.