Are you highly energized in leading a team and collaborating with various partners to ensure timely and highly accurate reporting? We are looking for an eager and engaged leader in building a successful department, valuing collaboration, quality and fun in the everyday life!
Core Responsibilities
- Strong leadership experience, with the ability to motivate, engage and coach employees in building impactful and service oriented culture for Financial Accounting of General Ledger processes to support the business across APAC
- Proven ability in planning, driving and lead the yearend closing and financial audit deliverables via team efforts for APAC region on shared service center context
- Skill in breaking down global/regional priorities, strategizing relevant contents or initiatives for implementation back to operational level for execution by the team
- Strong Key Performance Indicator management and ability to lead & coach continuous improvement approach
- Proven great communication & collaboration skills and excellent partner management internally and externally
- Board of Directors GL preparations & coordination
Play your part in our team succeeding!
The LEGO Group's APAC Business Service Operations (BSO), is part of the global established shared service center that delivers HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from 6 locations; Mexico, Kladno, Singapore, Billund, China & Vietnam. The purpose of the BSO is to create an effective and efficient platform for growth to support our strategy and reach twice as many kids over the next years.
As a Senior Manager and Regional Service lead for BSO APAC General Ledger (GL), you will report directly to the head of BSO APAC and be responsible for the leadership & daily operations of the BSO APAC GL team, while ensuring our services are delivered with the right quality & in alignment with BSO Global processes & practices as principle.
You will become part of the BSO APAC leadership team where you will have a key role entering with a strategic & tactic mind-set to develop the BSO APAC/China GL team, make valuable contributions to the business on the processes & services we deliver on the LEGO Group.
You will also collaborate closely with the Global GL PEN and BSO APAC Leadership Team Stream heads for functional support & Global stream direction.
Do you have what it takes?
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in accounting/ business-related field & preferably within BSO (Shared Services areas) environment
- 3-5 years of leadership experience in leading multicultural team
- 8+ years of professional experience within broader finance area demonstrating profound process and functional knowledge from a similar position, international experience from a multinational company a preference
- Experience of working and driving in a high collaborative environment under global setting, while delivering local deliveries & promoting coherence and end-to-end perspective
- Strong communication & partner management
- Structured and collaborative approach
- Manage multiple tasks and priorities successfully in a pragmatic working day
- Experienced in Project and change management
- Audit experience is a plus
- Strong Business sense, understanding how business work, and how BSO plays a critical role for the LEGO Group on process optimization and improvement on scalability & productivity agenda
- Structured collaborative, effective communication with team, leadership and partners
- Work under various operating systems and processes
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
- Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- 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.
- Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
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.
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Join the LEGO® team today.
Apply online at our LEGO Careers Portal today at: https://www.lego.com/en-sg/careers/job/senior-manager-apac-general-ledger-gl-c1bdf1682b931000edd08cdb547c0000
