Accounting Specialist

Job Description

Just imagine turning thousands of customer payments into accurate records that help the LEGO® Group make better decisions every day. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Accounting Specialist, you'll support the LEGO® Group through consistent, high-quality, customer-focused execution of accounts receivable processes and stakeholder management. You'll help the Business Service Operations team deliver value across the organization by ensuring timely payment posting, invoicing support, receivables management, and strong order-to-cash performance. Your work will contribute to improving cash flow, reducing overdue balances, and supporting business decisions across the Americas region.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in Cash Application or Accounts Receivable within a high-volume environment
• Managed cash application activities using ERP platforms, including SAP and HighRadius or similar tools
• Built advanced Excel solutions using XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and reconciliation techniques
• Applied finance experience across cash application, claims handling, invoicing, or international accounting activities
• Executed payment matching, deduction processing, credit note management, and aging analysis processes
• Worked within global finance environments that required coordination across end-to-end business processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Developed Excel macros or VBA solutions that automated cash application or reconciliation activities
• Streamlined workflows using Microsoft Power Automate
• Created reporting dashboards with Power BI or similar analytics tools
• Queried payment or invoice data using basic SQL skills

What you'll build

• Improve posting and clearing accuracy to increase efficiency and touchless processing
• Partner with Collections and HighRadius teams to reduce manual posting activity
• Identify and implement automation opportunities across cash application processes
• Ensure payment posting performance meets agreed service levels and key metrics
• Support optimization initiatives while maintaining compliance with company policies
• Contribute to process simplification, regional implementation projects, and process standardization
• Strengthen stakeholder relationships and improve the order-to-cash flow across supported markets

If you've worked in a role where you improved cash application performance, supported process automation, or enhanced accounts receivable operations, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to translate experience into measurable improvements and reliable service delivery.

Life on the team

You'll be part of the Accounts Receivable team, helping secure timely processing of payments and supporting the broader finance organization. We work closely together across the Americas region in a collaborative environment where people share knowledge, build strong stakeholder relationships, take ownership, and look for better ways of working. We're creating a high-performing team that values quality, process excellence, continuous learning, and having fun along the way.

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted contributor who consistently delivers accurate payment posting, supports automation efforts, and helps improve operational efficiency. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the Americas region while helping advance process improvements and standardization initiatives. Over time, you'll be recognized for creating reliable, sustainable solutions that strengthen the order-to-cash process and support business performance.

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.

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Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.