Senior GL Specialist

Job Description

Just imagine shaping accurate finance for LEGO® Retail across EMEA. Then make it real.

Core responsibilities

• Review landlord invoices for LEGO Brand Retails stores, compare with our database and proactively highlight any discrepancies.

• Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations including supporting explanations and ensure follow up on outstanding balances and taking corrective action.

• Partner with retail teams across EMEA on contract updates, turnover reporting, turnover rent accruals and other accounting queries. 

• Deliver accurate financial statements and audit support, resolving issues with relevant colleagues. 

• Shape reliable month-end reporting by analyzing movements, validating figures and following up on outstanding items. 

• Support finance transformation projects, including the move to SAP S/4HANA and a new lease tool.

• Approve journals, ensuring consistency and completeness of all postings with correct coding, classification and aligned with local accounting standards.

• Prepare, review and submit government reports, and ad hoc financial information requests.

This role is located in Prague – Jinonice and no relocation support is offered for this role 

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO® Group’s Business Service Operations team delivers Finance and HR services from Prague, Monterrey and Singapore. Within the General Ledger team, you’ll support EMEA retail colleagues and ensure reported figures accurately reflect contracts, landlord requests and business activity.

Retail-related work makes up most of the role, offering opportunities to build, rebuild and inspire accounting processes beyond a typical GL position. You’ll collaborate across functions, share ideas and help shape the team’s transition to new finance tools.

Do you have what it takes?

• Finance background with experience in accounting, reporting, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable or another related area.

• Well-structured and flexible approach, with the confidence to organize competing priorities and solve accounting issues.

• Clear, open communication style and comfort reaching out to retail and Finance colleagues across functions.

• Advanced Microsoft 365 skills, including practical experience using Copilot to organize, analyze or communicate information.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with SAP, with curiosity to learn and support the transition to SAP S/4HANA.

• Exposure to retail accounting, lease contracts, landlord requests, audits or statutory financial statement preparation.

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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.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.