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Partner on all people operations and development related topics for the global organisations and senior leadership teams of: - Legal, Compliance & Risk Management - Government & Public Affairs - Global Strategic Tax & Customs - Corporate Risk & Internal Audit - Global ERP Transformation

Partner on all people operations and development related topics for 4 global finance business partner organizations and senior leadership teams.

Supporting the global CFO Organisation leadership team in driving people developments projects linked to the strategic ambition to Energize Everybody Everyday. Strategic projects focused on talent development, capability building, attracting and growing talent, vision/ambition for growing partnering skills aka. superpowers for full organization. Key Achievements:- Responsible for the design, creation and execution of development program for midlevel emerging talents (SPARK Program)- Ideated, build and deployed framework for partnering (Golden Partnering Standards) across LEGO® Global CFO Organisation, supporting everyday development of partnering skills via focus on behaviors and capabilities. - build, and deployed new learning academy (BOOST! Finance) and capability learning programs for all people in LEGO® Global Finance- Creation of social learning, knowledge sharing and collaboration concept (#1GT Got Talent) for people in LEGO® Global CFO Organisation. Season 3 running with 100+ participants by session.- Driver and contributor to people flow and development planning team - supporting continued development of all LEGO® Global Finance people.- Coaching and mentoring of CFO Organisation talents.- Engaged into development of future leadership model for the LEGO Group (aka. Leadership Playground)- Leadership Playground Community Builder, actively driving the deployment and engagement of behavior based self-leadership model across functions.- Engaged into talent and development agenda for CFO area.- Taken on learning assignments to build knowledge within organizational development area.- Passionate about wellbeing, contributed to global wellbeing focus and strategy as active participant in LEGO® global wellbeing council.

Full responsibility of the finance business partnering towards global product and marketing development organization. Finance Business Partner to two SVPs, head of Product Group1 and Product Group 2 and part of two leadership teams.Responsible for reporting and management of global R&D costs and financial management of global portfolio profitability.Engaged in strategic, operational and people agenda including driving business plan creation and participation in global product development innovation process.Driving talent development and people flow planning process across global finance functions and part of task force to enable simplicity, clear roadblocks and kill non value adding work in global R&D business area.

Continuation of team development with promotion to take full responsibility of the finance business partnering towards global product and marketing development organization. Finance Business Partner to two SVPs, head of Product Group1 and Product Group 2 and part of two leadership teams.Responsible for reporting and management of global R&D costs and financial management of global portfolio profitability.Engaged in strategic, operational and people agenda including driving business plan creation and participation in global product development innovation process.Key Achievements:- building strong and capable Finance Business Partner team (from 1 to 7 employees in 1.5 yrs)- part of driving and enabling organizational transformation that changed the ways of working across global R&D business area.- enabling informed product and marketing portfolio decisions based on lens of profitability (EBIT), from ideation of how to creating simulation/analysis model and information package in less than 6 months.- active part of change to install agility, transparency and effectiveness into resource allocation across global product and marketing development area.- leading own team through change and rightsizing.

Building a new team supporting the global product and marketing development organization. Finance Business Partner to SVP, head of PG1 and part of leadership team.Responsible for reporting and management of global R&D costs and financial management of global portfolio profitability.Engaged in strategic, operational and people agenda including driving business plan creation and participation in global product development innovation process.Key Achievements:- building Finance Business Partner team from scratch, starting with clean slate of objective, purpose and limited business involvement => to engaged and motivated team, actively involved in driving and impacting business agenda.- together with LT peers designing and building new finance set-up and organization to partner with global product and marketing development business area.- engaged in making the LEGO Group business plan, working with corporate management members across the company on defining global must-win-battles as well as leading the activation and deployment within business area PG1.

Head of EMEA Finance team and finance business partner for SVP of EMEA sales and marketing and member of EMEA leadership team. Full responsibility for EMEA P&L, financial processes and management reporting and engaged in strategic, operational and people agenda in EMEA and global finance.Experience with remote leadership of people in: France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic and Russia.Key Achievements:- taking on stretched assignment interim stepping into Senior Director level role/responsibility securing stability in both team and business performance in transition period of nearly 8 months.- lead of pan EMEA financial estimate and target setting process. Securing alignment in EMEA LT amongst VP to SVP level business leaders.

People leader for a team of highly capable and experienced Finance Business Partners located across Europe. Supporting the regional BU sales and marketing leadership teams across EMEA.Responsible for leading EMEA regional financial processes (FP&A), estimates, monthly management reporting and financial risk assessment and management.Co-pilot to head of EMEA finance team on all strategic, operational and people related topics. Experience with remote leadership of people in: France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic and Russia.Key Achievements:- engaged in activation and deployment of new customer, channel segmentation and investment management programme across European business units - securing full financial transparency.- leading standardization of all financial management reporting across EMEA business units.- engaged into redesign of EMEA finance organization and ways of working.

Finance Business Partner for regional Sales and Marketing business unit and part of leadership team with dotted reporting line to VP and head of BU.Full P&L responsibility and engaged into business agenda on strategic and operational level. Close collaboration and direct financial support of people across: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium and Latvia. Part of core team in transforming the BU from country to channel focused structure including organizational changes and integration of the Baltic markets.Key achievement:- building a strong connection with business unit leadership team members.- building strong understanding of the NBB markets and customers.- successfully managing business unit P&L in close collaboration with core BU LT and GM.- engaged in task force leading the transformation of the BU structure and organization.

Finance Business Partner for global senior leadership teams and c-suite leaders. Full finance responsibility of OPEX and project and development costsSupported a portfolio of Global Corporate functions: - Corporate Finance- Corporate HR- Corporate Brand, Marketing and Commmunication- Global Sales - Corporate Strategy Involved in transformation project establishing national finance shared service center, as stream project lead on communication towards users.

Part of team responsible for financial controlling, internal auditing, business process documentation, external statuary reporting, consolidation and tax reporting.

Financial accountant - tasks ranging from bookkeeping to managing audits of small and medium sized companies. Learned basic financial skills and understanding that I have benefited from ever since.