Finance Business Partner

At LEGO Digital Play, we’re bringing the LEGO® System-in-Play to the digital builders of tomorrow. We’re building the LEGO brand’s digital home: a place where builders of every age can create, share and discover, held to the standard of craft the LEGO brand is known for.

Our mission is to ensure the LEGO brand remains as powerful a part of people’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach players all around the world, and give them 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.

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner who can turn numbers into clear, practical advice for the teams they support.

You will start as a generalist across FP&A, working with teams across the business, from game development to central functions, on budgets, forecasts, headcount planning, commercial analysis and project work. Over time you will move to partner more closely with specific business units. You will join as our business partnering model is being built, so you will help shape the processes as well as run them. This role suits someone commercially minded who enjoys building relationships with non-finance colleagues as much as building the model.

• Act as a day-to-day finance partner to budget holders across the business, helping them understand their numbers and make sound decisions.

• Own budgeting, forecasting and monthly variance analysis for the areas you cover, including opex, headcount and staff costs, with clear commentary on what is driving performance.

• Run regular forecast reviews with budget owners, making sure budgets are backed by clear plans and challenging assumptions on areas such as vendor and cloud spend.

• Prepare inputs to the annual budget and long-range plan, and reconcile them to the group numbers.

• Build commercial analysis, business cases and financial models to support investment decisions, and follow up with post-investment reviews.

• Work closely with the Senior Finance Manager, picking up incoming requests and ad-hoc projects and seeing them through independently, from scoping the question to presenting recommendations.

• Provide our leaders with insightful financial analysis to improve performance and support decision making.

• Partner with Accounting and Financial Reporting on month-end, accruals, recharges and accounting questions, helping non-finance teams understand where their costs should land.

• Help build the processes, models and tools behind FP&A and business partnering as the finance function grows, including finding where AI and automation can make them more efficient.

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

• A track record in FP&A or finance business partnering, influencing senior non-finance leaders.

• Solid accounting knowledge, including month-end and accruals, and a working knowledge of IFRS.

• Strong financial modelling and Excel skills, including working across complicated models.

• Proven ability to work effectively with AI tools in your day-to-day work, for example to speed up analysis, modelling or reporting.

• High attention to detail, making sure numbers going to senior leadership are checked and reconciled.

• The ability to explain financial information clearly, challenge assumptions constructively and prioritise a high volume of requests.

• Experience in gaming, or in an adjacent sector such as consumer tech, digital media or subscription businesses.

• Familiarity with games and digital business KPIs.

• Experience building finance processes from scratch in a growing company.

• Experience building reporting and dashboards in Power BI.

• Experience with ERP and planning tools.

Hybrid Working: This role is based in our London office. Our hybrid working policy is three days a week in the office.