Senior manager, Data scientist in Corporate Finance

Job Description

This role is a strong opportunity to gain E2E knowledge on the LEGO Group's financial processes and grow a strong network across the organization!

As part of the Corporate reporting and planning team, you will play a key role in leveraging data and drive innovation and continuous improvement in the financial planning processes and build on your already excellent finance career!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position

Core Responsibilities

• Drive the aspiration on business analysis and push the data focus in defining the new financial planning processes

• Leverage data driven forecasting in financial planning e.g. via driver based planning and predictive planning to drive automation and reduced cycle time with less effort

• Engage with partners across Finance to drive the implementation and support the change journey

• Be one of the subject matter experts training and supporting colleagues building confidence in the data driven approach

• Co-drive validation and recommendation on the model selection in a new forecast engine in collaboration with the technical developers

• Prepare the reporting supporting transparency in the models and building a storyline on the development

Play your part in our team succeeding.

Do you have what it takes?

We expect our preferred candidate to hold a Master's degree in Data science/Data engineering/ Economics / Finance or similar

• 5-8 years of experience with data science or data engineering, preferably with a focus on finance

• Strong analytical skills and experience with predictive planning/ machine learning /Python/R or similar

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

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.

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Join the LEGO® team today.