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About the Role

LEGO Digital Play is building new, innovative, and wholly-owned digital entertainment experiences for the LEGO brand. This founding role is responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and control of LDP's financial results, leading the close and reporting process, owning the balance sheet, and building the control environment for scalable growth. You will represent Finance on the ERP implementation and establish the financial controls team.

Responsibilities

Own the monthly close, balance sheet, and consolidation for all LDP entities.
Ensure financial results are accurate, complete, well-supported, and delivered on time.
Manage consolidation, intercompany eliminations, and alignment of accounting policy.
Submit group reporting to LEGO Group.
Maintain balance sheet integrity, including reconciliations, accruals, provisions, and cut-off.
Deliver high-quality financial reporting and insight, explaining key movements, risks, and issues.
Own LDP's accounting policies and technical judgments, ensuring consistent application and alignment with LEGO Group policy.
Serve as the technical authority on complex accounting treatments, defending positions to auditors and Group Finance.
Represent Finance on the ERP implementation, working with consultants and stakeholders to establish world-class financial tools.
Build and establish financial controls as a founding member, setting standards for a growing business.
Develop Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions.
Partner closely with FP&A, Group Finance, Legal, Procurement, HR/Payroll, IT, and external ERP consultants.
Act as a hands-on partner and doer alongside the VP, Head of Finance, and FP&A team.
Build close working relationships with HR, IT, and corporate functions.

Requirements

Strong financial controlling, accounting, or audit background with proven ownership of close, reporting, reconciliations, and balance sheet integrity.
Background in gaming, entertainment, tech, or another IP-driven, project-based business.
Sharp technical accounting judgment, able to challenge treatment and spot risk.
ERP and finance systems experience, ideally from an implementation, upgrade, or process redesign.
Cross-functional influence, able to lead finance processes across Operations, Group Finance, and consultants without formal authority.
Strong communicator, clear with both finance and non-finance audiences.
Comfortable founding and shaping a team from scratch.
Deep enthusiasm for accounting mechanics, including chart of accounts design, general ledger structure, and systems debates for scale.

Skills

Financial controlling
Accounting
Audit
Close process
Reporting
Reconciliations
Balance sheet integrity
Technical accounting judgment
ERP systems
Finance systems
Cross-functional influence
Communication
Team founding and shaping
Chart of accounts design
General ledger structure
Creative industry tax credits
International group structure
Group reporting
Intercompany reporting
Statutory reporting
Shared services
Complex revenue recognition (IFRS 15)
Digital sales
Platform/app store arrangements
Licensing
Finance process improvement
Systems implementation
Data quality
Controls implementation

Location

London, England

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Founding role
Senior

About the Company

LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways.
Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been.
We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans of LEGO—and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at the earliest phases of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand.
Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.