Finance Manager - Marketing Transformation Program

Lego; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Finance Manager - Marketing Transformation Program

Job Description
Are you ready to shape the future of our marketing strategy and investments? Join the Product & Marketing Development Business Finance team and play a key role in the LEGO Group's Marketing Transformation journey. Use your strategic attitude and analytical expertise to drive significant change in marketing investment decisions!

In this role, you will gain valuable experience collaborating closely with key partners across the Marketing Value Chain, including Markets & Channels and Product & Marketing Development teams in both Business and Finance.

This is a one year fixed term opportunity with an immediate start.

Core Responsibilities

• Establish and formalize investment principles for LEGO marketing investments, ensuring their seamless integration into key planning processes through collaborator alignment.
• Co-lead financial governance and performance tracking for the Marketing Transformation Program and prioritized global marketing initiatives, ensuring effective oversight and measurable outcomes.
• Improve cross-functional collaboration between PMD, M&C Finance, and Business teams by defining clear, overarching marketing investment planning principles and maintaining continuous alignment among partners.
• Develop and deliver high-impact presentations to audiences ranging from business partners to C-level executives, providing strategic financial guidance and actionable insights.

Do you have what it takes?

• You have a consistent record to work in a global & matrix structured organisation.
• You are a strong collaborator in a multi-functional work environment.
• You are a strong Financial Controller (ideally) with project management experience, partnering with marketing and/or business teams.
• You are comfortable navigating complexity with the judgement as to when to dig into the detail and when to look at the bigger picture.
• You are able to deliver high quality work even when tight deadlines are looming.
• You have a natural curiosity and a strong willingness to learn and grow.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills (in English) and the ability to engage, influence, persuade, align with your stakeholders.
• You are an advanced user of Excel and PowerPoint.

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.

Join the LEGO team today.