Senior Finance Manager

Job Description

Just imagine helping shape every major overhead investment across global retail operations with confidence, clarity, and better decisions. Then make it real.

The role can be based either in London or Billund. No relocation support will be offered.

About the role

As our Senior Finance Manager, you'll drive financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and cost optimization across LEGO Retail's global overhead cost base. You'll partner with finance and business leaders to provide financial guidance, create actionable insights, and support strategic decisions across physical and digital retail channels. A key part of the role is strengthening forecasting capabilities, enhancing financial governance, and supporting the implementation of new digital planning tools and ways of working. You'll have the opportunity to influence business performance on a global scale while helping shape finance processes and cost management practices.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered advanced financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and financial modelling across complex business environments.
• Managed large overhead cost bases, identifying cost drivers and supporting cost optimization and trade‑off decisions.
• Built analytical solutions using financial data and reporting tools such as Excel, SAP, Power BI, or similar platforms to generate actionable insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supported retail operations through finance partnering, including labour, lease, store profitability, or multi‑site cost management.
• Applied enterprise planning systems and forecasting platforms such as OneStream, workforce planning tools, or lease management solutions.

What you'll build

• Stronger forecasting accuracy, transparency, and discipline across global overhead cost areas.
• Scalable forecasting models for key cost drivers, including labour and lease expenses.
• Financial governance frameworks that improve workforce planning and overhead management.
• Actionable insights that support cost optimization and performance improvement.Trusted partnerships with finance and business leaders across global teams.
• Greater confidence in decision‑making through robust analysis and clear financial recommendations.

If you've worked in a role where you owned planning and forecasting for significant budgets, built financial models that improved business outcomes, and communicated recommendations to senior leaders, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is the ability to turn complex data into clear actions and measurable business impact.

Life on the team

You'll join the Global Cost Management team, a Centre of Excellence supporting overhead investment decisions across the LEGO Group. We're a collaborative global team built on trust, accountability, and freedom under responsibility. Our hybrid rhythm typically includes three days in the office and two from home. We stay connected through weekly team meetings focused on business updates, knowledge sharing, and team connection. You'll be encouraged to bring a continuous improvement mindset, strong business partnering skills, commercial awareness, ownership, and a practical approach to delivering results.

What success looks like

Success means becoming the trusted finance partner for overhead cost management, recognised for improving forecasting quality, governance, and decision support. You'll help the team advance new OneStream forecasting models, strengthen workforce planning insights, and create more effective ways of working. You'll work closely with LEGO Brand Retail Finance, business leaders, Global Insights, People Partners, Payroll, and Corporate Finance to drive meaningful change and support long‑term business performance.

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