LEGO Retail London, England
Job description
Job Description
Are you interested in making a direct impact on a global company through data, while honing your business knowledge? Play a vital part in helping one of the world’s best-selling and most reputable toy brands reach more children!
A truly exciting opportunity has arisen to join our LEGO® Retail Finance team for a period of around 12 months commencing from July 2023 in our London Hub. We are looking for 2 highly driven, curious, and analytical individuals with a passion for numbers and data.
Play your part in the success of our team
The LEGO® Retail Finance team consists of 14 colleagues based across Europe, China and the US. The Global LEGO® Retail business is responsible for Direct-to-Consumer Channels (E-comm and stores around the world), Retail Development and Model Production.
Core Responsibilities
The role will be varied but exciting and you will have the opportunity to work across LEGO Retail Finance team and business partners, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Help drive the digitalization of Finance and build financial reports in an efficient and business-focused way, leveraging data analytics
- Supporting on digitization of stores or ecommerce reporting
- Analysing key drivers to understand the performance of channel
- Support in defining the commercial plan to improve top line performance
- Support on improving forecasting accuracy of both revenue and costs
- Support and prepare materials for senior executive teams
- Provide analysis and insights for ad hoc projects as needed
Do you have what it takes?
- Working towards a bachelor’s or Master’s degree and hold strong numerical A levels ( or equivalent) . Accounting/Economics/ Finance/ Data Science preferable
- Completing an industrial placement year course returning to study in autumn 2024
- Must have the right to work in the UK already in place
- Possess a quantitative approach and analytical capabilities and be passionate about unlocking insights through data
- Be a good communicator and confident with presentations
- Have strong organizational skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and perform multiple tasks optimally
- Be familiar with MS Excel (e.g., pivot tables, look-ups, macros, etc.) and visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
- Able to access large volumes of unstructured data and organize information – experience with SQL or other languages preferred
- Proficient in English – written and verbal
What you can learn as an intern
- Exposure to a high performing global finance team that has embraced hybrid work arrangements
- Understanding of P&L and underlying drivers of performance
- Utilising data to support faster and better business decision making process
- Getting the mentorship and development opportunities to discover your potential
Interested?
If you are interested in applying for this role, you will need to submit your CV and a cover letter articulating the following:
- Why would you like an internship at the LEGO® Group?
- Why does Finance interest you?
- Why should the LEGO® Group consider you for this internship?
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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. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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.
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