Senior manager, Data scientist in Corporate Finance

Job Description

This role is a strong opportunity to elevate digitalization in financial planning in the LEGO Group and 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 using data and drive innovation and continuous improvement in the financial planning processes and build on your already excellent finance data scientist 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, predictive planning and sensible machine learning 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

• Superb communication and collaboration skills

• Location in Billund or Copenhagen office

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. 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.

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Join the LEGO® team today.