Senior Accounting Assistant

Job Description

Are you looking to join a successful Prague based team as a Senior Accounting Assistant in the Travel and Expenses team where you will be part of a lively and evolving environment where a curious mind will help you tackle a broad range of responsibilities?

Core responsibilities

• Daily oversight and support associated with employee
  travel and expenses.
• Daily interaction with the employees to ensure
  compliance with LEGO Global Travel Policy
• Usage of SAP travel platform that incorporate travel
  booking, expense reimbursement and reporting.
• Work closely with the Accounts Payable Manager to
  drive efficiency and cost savings through analytics,
  reporting, auditing, and training.
• Create and provide training to assist employees.
• Contact users when appropriate approval is missing or
  when support is not provided for reimbursement.
• Help users by researching and resolving any payment
  issues.
• Coordinate with the accounting team to ensure diligent
  processing of expense reports.
• Supporting a high-performing, customer- and service
  oriented culture within the AP department
• Supporting and completing optimisation initiatives across
  cross functional areas
• Supporting compliance of the company policies and
  procedures, and supporting operation of global,
  standardised and scalable processes
• Ordering corporate credit cards and disbursing them to
  employees
• Support users with travel card related issues.

‘No relocation assistance is offered for this position.’

Play your part in our team succeeding.

The Senior Assistant plays a significant role in establishing a sustainable Accounts Payable department in the Business Service Operations. We need development- oriented employees, all eager to engage actively in building a high-performing department, valuing collaboration, and process excellence. 

The position gives you the opportunity to have exposure to multiple areas that allow you to build on a variety of experiences. You can broaden your skills as either a specialist, generalist, or a people leader. You are attracted to the idea of working in an organisation
where the spirit is “only the best is good enough,” and where you can be part of forming the operational unit of the new BSO entity of the LEGO Group.

Have a passion for solving issues in a collaborative way by interacting with your colleagues to ensure coherence and solutions. The mind-set will be that “2 heads are better than 1”. There is an opportunity to broaden skills and expertise in different areas while being part of the LEGO Group. You will get the change to build expertise and at the same time become part of a global environment and a culture where focus is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.

Do you have what it takes?

• Minimum 2-3 years of relevant professional working
  experience with Travel and Expenses processes
• Experience with Travel and Expenses ERP Systems
• Microsoft Office experience
• Excel intermediate
• Experience from Shared Service Centre
• Collaborator with initiative-taking approach
• Precise on delivery and deadline
• Estimated travel activity – up to 10 days per year.
• Experience with SAP
• Excel at advanced level
• Knowledge of credit card system
• Analysis attitude
• LCI experience

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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.

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.

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 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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.