Senior GL Specialist

Just imagine shaping accurate finance for LEGO® Retail across EMEA. Then make it real.

Core responsibilities

• Review landlord invoices for LEGO Brand Retails stores, compare with our database and proactively highlight any discrepancies.

• Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations including supporting explanations and ensure follow up on outstanding balances and taking corrective action.

• Partner with retail teams across EMEA on contract updates, turnover reporting, turnover rent accruals and other accounting queries. 

• Deliver accurate financial statements and audit support, resolving issues with relevant colleagues. 

• Shape reliable month-end reporting by analyzing movements, validating figures and following up on outstanding items. 

• Support finance transformation projects, including the move to SAP S/4HANA and a new lease tool.

• Approve journals, ensuring consistency and completeness of all postings with correct coding, classification and aligned with local accounting standards.

• Prepare, review and submit government reports, and ad hoc financial information requests.

This role is located in Prague – Jinonice and no relocation support is offered for this role 

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO® Group’s Business Service Operations team delivers Finance and HR services from Prague, Monterrey and Singapore. Within the General Ledger team, you’ll support EMEA retail colleagues and ensure reported figures accurately reflect contracts, landlord requests and business activity.

Retail-related work makes up most of the role, offering opportunities to build, rebuild and inspire accounting processes beyond a typical GL position. You’ll collaborate across functions, share ideas and help shape the team’s transition to new finance tools.

Do you have what it takes?

• Finance background with experience in accounting, reporting, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable or another related area.

• Well-structured and flexible approach, with the confidence to organize competing priorities and solve accounting issues.

• Clear, open communication style and comfort reaching out to retail and Finance colleagues across functions.

• Advanced Microsoft 365 skills, including practical experience using Copilot to organize, analyze or communicate information.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with SAP, with curiosity to learn and support the transition to SAP S/4HANA.

• Exposure to retail accounting, lease contracts, landlord requests, audits or statutory financial statement preparation.

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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.

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