Senior Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Controlling, LEGO® Education

Job Description

Drive financial excellence by managing full P&L, improving financial transparency and delivering actionable insights to improve business performance.

Lead initiatives to optimize margins and support strategic decisions. Collaborate across teams to ensure accountability and growth. Bring your financial acumen and analytical skills to make a real impact. 
 

Please note: We do not offer relocation support for this position.
 

Core Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end financial planning and analysis for LEGO Education's full P&L, including driving yearly wheel of LEGO Education's financial performance (including in-year estimates and forecasts, mid/long-term financial planning, pricing review and ad-hoc P&L deep-dives)

• P&L management & financial modelling. Own the P&L, driving insights into revenue streams, cost structures, and profitability levers. Create and maintain dynamic financial models to support business scenarios and decision-making.

• Deliver accurate, insight-driven financial forecasts that support executive decision-making and business agility.

• Drive financial planning modernization and continuous improvement across finance tools and processes (process automation, enhanced financial transparency, reporting framework and KPI governance)

• Lead cross-functional financial initiatives like margin improvement, pricing and profitability analysis, strategic investment analysis and resource allocation.

• Partner and support rest of finance organization as well as different areas of our business to translate financial results into operational insights, challenge assumptions and identify risks/opportunities and drive accountability against financial targets and KPIs.
   

Play your part in our team succeeding
This role sits at the center of LEGO Education within Finance, Business Development & Insights function. Within the Finance organization this role is part of Financial Planning and Controlling, which its key purpose is to  drive value by providing financial transparency, strong governance and enabling efficient decision making, value the team drive leads to sustainable business performance long-term enabling reaching more students.
You will play a vital role by having active and strong collaboration across LEGO Education working closely with core processes and stakeholders behind Demand Plan, Sales & Operation Plan amongst other processes to ensure financial performance accountability and transparency.
The ideal candidate combines deep financial acumen, structured approach, analytical rigor, and the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business recommendations.

This role is designed for a modern FP&A function who thrives in fast-paced, data-driven environments and can influence decisions at both strategic and
operational levels. This position plays a critical role in scaling financial planning capabilities, improving forecasting accuracy, enhancing KPI visibility, and supporting enterprise-wide growth initiative.
 

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings demonstrated and solid finance experience in a global organization ideally in financial planning and analysis, where you have led financial estimates across the organization. In addition, we expect that you:

• Have advanced FP&A and Financial modelling experience looking at end to end businesses (command of variation analysis, driver-based forecasting and scenario planning)

• Build and maintain strong relationships and partnership within the organization beyond finance colleagues

• Deliver high-quality outputs and runs independently with natural collaboration and teamwork mindset.

• Show proven experience of leading financial projects and driving process automation and simplification, improved reporting cycles and enhanced financial transparency -experience building scalable finance processes is highly valued.

• Demonstrate a growth mindset, with a strong desire to learn and develop.

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.

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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