Finance Director, APAC FP&A

Job Description

Just imagine shaping the financial performance behind the LEGO® Group’s long-term ambitions across Asia Pacific. Then make it real.

About the role

As our APAC FP&A Finance Director, you'll shape how we plan, measure, and manage financial performance across Asia Pacific. You'll own annual planning, targets, forecasts, long-range planning and transformational projects, connecting commercial ambitions with financial commitments. This permanent role puts you in the driving seat of the decisions that shape revenue, margin, earnings, investment and future growth.

Please note that relocation support is not available for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Led regional performance management and target setting across revenue, margin and earnings, identifying risks and opportunities and driving resulting actions.
• Led cross-functional strategic projects, influencing senior stakeholders while working in a matrix environment.
• Shaped trade and marketing investment choices, embedding effectiveness, productivity and return on investment in resource allocation.
• Strengthened financial governance and planning accuracy across regional planning and forecasting cycles.
• Built and presented insight-led financial materials for senior leaders covering planning, forecasts, performance and investment choices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Led financial planning and analysis within a retail or consumer goods business.
• Used BW, SAP and PowerPoint for financial planning, analysis and leadership materials.
• Built regional finance capability through adoption of improved financial planning and analysis processes, automation and finance best practices.

What you'll build

• A solid framework for our strategic 4-year plan, supported by key transformational projects.
• More effective trade and marketing investment through clearer financial performance measures.
• Stronger governance and greater accuracy across planning, forecasting and performance management.
• Progress on transformation, profitability and productivity initiatives across Asia Pacific.
• Simpler, more standardised financial planning processes and greater use of automation.

If you've owned strategic planning and forecasting cycles and created insight-led materials for senior leaders, you'll feel at home here. Experience influencing commercial and operational choices and improving financial governance will help you make your mark.

Life on the team

You'll join Asia Pacific Finance within the LEGO® Group, helping the region turn commercial plans into clear financial commitments. We work in a hybrid rhythm, with three days each week in the Singapore Hub and Wednesdays together for team meetings. You'll coach the Asia Pacific Financial Planning and Analysis Manager day to day, communicating clearly and working across commercial, operational and finance teams.

What success looks like

You'll balance recurring planning and performance management with shaping the transformation, growth, profitability and productivity priorities. In parallel of the region’s four-year PLAN30 growth ambitions, you would have built a stronger investment effectiveness framework and further process improvement and automation. You'll work closely with the Head of Asia Pacific Finance, the Asia Pacific Leadership Team, commercial and operational partners, and regional and global finance teams

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building,rebuilding,and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating,inventing,and having fun.Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.