Senior Director, Head of APAC Finance

Job Description

Are you an expert finance leader who excels as a trusted business partner to organizational leaders? Step forward and bring your visionary business and financial leadership to the forefront.

Bring to bear your critical thinking and financial expertise to drive sustainable business growth!

Core Responsibilities

1. Be the CFO of APAC and a Trusted Finance Business Partner (“right hand”) to the APAC GM
2. Co-lead business and organizational decisions together with the APAC Leadership Team
3. Bring end-to-end strategic & financial leadership and operational subject area enabling delivery of critical business objectives
4. Drive accountability, leverage insights & analytics, and constrictively challenge to deliver sustainable business growth and financial performance
5. Be a stewardship champion leading others in crafting and operationalizing effective governance models
6. Lead, enable, motivate and develop a team of Finance leaders across APAC markets
7. Actively contribute to the Commercial Finance Partnering Leadership Team helping build partnering capabilities across broader Finance Organization

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The LEGO Group’s Mission is to Inspire and Develop the Builders of Tomorrow. Our Finance Ambition is to be Trusted Business Partners who support and contribute to this Mission by

1. Co-driving & co-owning business decisions, productivity improvements and operational execution, demonstrating strong commercial and functional expertise to enable sustainable value creation
2. Identifying end to end business and financial insights, and turning them into action showcasing analytical, communication and digital capabilities
3. Being mature stewards for risk management effectively marrying business objectives with strong governance & compliance
4. Being continuously reliable and effective in operating financial processes and day to day finance delivery

Do you have what it takes:

1. Business leadership: Strong consistent track record of strategic commercial contributions, operational excellence and balanced result delivery in collaboration with multifunctional partners at senior levels
2. Financial acuity: End to end toolbox developed through 10+ years of finance experience (at least two of which in a business partnering capacity), in a multinational context
3. Stakeholder management: Strong listener, communicator and influencer, optimally engaging across organization (up, down and across), comfortable in sharing their point of view and managing constructive conflicts, also with more senior counterparts
4. People leadership: Consistent record of leading, enabling and developing highly effective teams (in a multinational or remote setup), championing and demonstrating diversity and inclusion
5. Other: People & results-driven, self-starter, applying simplicity & productivity attitude, with curiosity & agility to continuously learn
6. Experience in digital transformation or digital application in business / finance

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.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.