- Location
- Prague - Jinonice, Czechia
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description
Ready to lead the future of Travel & Expense Management and drive a change at the LEGO Group? The LEGO Group is looking for an experienced Travel & Expense Management (TEM) Manager to lead our global TEM organization and play a key role in our Finance transformation journey. excellence, compliance, and best-in-class user experience.
Core Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop a global TEM team, fostering a collaborative, customer-focused, and high-performing culture.
Own the end-to-end Travel & Expense process, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and an exceptional employee experience.
Drive automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives that simplify processes and reduce manual work.
Define and execute the TEM strategy aligned with the S/4HANA roadmap and the Finance digital transformation agenda.
Build strong partnerships with Concur, banking partners, corporate card providers, payroll teams, and technology teams.
Ensure compliance with company policies, tax regulations, audit requirements, and financial controls.
Develop meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to support data-driven decisions and service excellence.
Lead transformation projects, system enhancements, organizational change, and future capability development within the team.
This position is located in Prague - Jinonice and there is no relocation assistance offered for this role.
Play your part in our team succeeding
As TEM Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for Travel & Expense Management across The LEGO Group. You will lead a high-performing global team while partnering with Finance, HR, Tax, Procurement, Payroll, Technology, and external partners to continuously improve the end-to-end Travel & Expense process.
What we're looking for
Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams in a global environment.
Experience within Travel & Expense Management, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or Procure-to-Pay.
Strong knowledge of Concur or similar Travel & Expense platforms.
A continuous improvement mindset with experience driving automation, process optimization, and digital transformation.
Strong understanding of travel policies, expense management, corporate cards, compliance, tax, audit, and financial controls.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
A data-driven approach, using insights to improve performance and customer experience.
The confidence to lead change, challenge the status quo, and inspire others through curiosity, collaboration, and courage.
What would be an advantage
Experience supporting S/4HANA transformation.
Experience with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI or SAP Analytics Cloud.
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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.
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