Senior Accounting Specialist + **Location** Prague, Czechia + **Job ID** 0000023997 + **Category** Finance **Job Description** **Are you enthusiastic about LEGO® bricks? Would you like to work for the company whose products bring happiness to millions of children and adults all over the world? How would you like to join the Business Service Operations EMEA team as a Senior Accounting Specialist ?** **Core Responsibilities** + Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations including supporting explanations and ensure follow up on outstanding balances and taking corrective action. + Responsibility for the completion and review of internal and external reporting and audit requirements. + Approves journals, ensuring consistency and completeness of all postings with correct coding, classification and aligned with local accounting standards. + Performs variance analyses for movements on all accounts to keep financials free from probable errors and misstatements. + Support all activities including audits, audits, tax audits. + Acts as key contact for queries concerning accounting and other finance matters. + Maintain adherence to local statutory reporting rules, tax requirements for entities in region and lead communication with external and internal auditors. + Prepares, review and submit government reportsand ad hoc financialinformation requests. + Understanding colleagues needs + Building and strengthening basic partnership relations across areas andgeographies including teamwork and culture (incl. Business Controllers,Treasury, CRBC, Tax, Group Reporting and our auditors) + Articulate collaborator priorities and find opportunities to translate to plans in own process and area. + Continuouslytrainand mentorjuniorteammembersandparticipateinpreparation of cross trainings for other departments/functions. + Support the Team Leaders and FBP Controllers with ad hoc projects, issue resolution, and improvement in execution. **Play your part in our team succeeding** The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a shared service center thatdelivers HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from 3 locations;Monterrey, Prague and Singapore. The General Ledger (GL) department interacts with outstanding parts of the LEGO organisation and therefore holds a meaningful role within the Business Service Operations (BSO). Supporting the EMEA region. The team handles the general ledger and all related engagements in compliance, involving natural interaction with a wide variety of both internal and external collaborators. The departmental focus is to: + Make sure we live our partner promise by ensuring high quality,stewardship and full compliance with the LEGO Groups currentAccounting Policy and global processes. + Ensure timely, accurate and reliable transactional data recorded ingeneral ledger and timely reconciliation of all accounts. + Assist collaborators both inside and outside the organization by providing meaningful financial analyses, regular statements and reports + GL department enhances The LEGO Group by providing customer-focused GL processes and collaborating with partners, team members, and collaborators, supporting BSO or equivalent experience to add new value to LEGO. + The Senior Specialist plays an important role in developing the best in class General Ledgerdepartment within the BSO. + Seeking individuals who enjoy improving a top-performing department through collaboration, process excellence, and quality. **Do you have what it takes ?** + MSc degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Controlling + Significant working experience from Financefunction + Over two years of proven experience gained in a similar role + Experience with an enterprise wide accounting software system,preferably SAP + Microsoft Office at experienced level + Analytical, detail - and high-quality oriented + Be robust, resilient and ability to embrace changes, as well as having aproactive mind with a can-do attitude. + Validated self-motivation and proactive approach, excellent teamwork abilities and track record of encouraging trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other essential collaborators. + Strong written and spoken English, additional languages are anadvantage + Proven working experience in International accounting environment + Experience with preparation of statutory financial documents + Ability to independently resolve moderate to sophisticated problems + English language \#EL - LI1 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. 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.**