D2C Accounting Specialist
LEGO is hiring a D2C Accounting Specialist in Shanghai, China. Level rates it ; you can apply on LEGO.
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Job Description
Just imagine making China's direct-to-consumer finance operation run smoothly — from finance solution setup through go-live and stabilization. Then make it real.
About the role
As our D2C Accounting Specialist, you'll manage accounts receivable (AR) for China's direct-to-consumer (D2C) business across e-commerce and retail channels. You'll handle AR activities including SAP processing, reconciliation, financial controls, exception management, plus AR solution setup and go-live support.
Required Qualifications
- Solid accounts receivable experience, within e-commerce, retail or other consumer-facing businesses
- Experience with Chinese e-commerce platforms
- Strong mindset with process improvement
- Strong variance analysis skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Comfort with change
- Genuine ownership and accountability
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with regulatory compliance
- Experience with business reporting
- Strong critical thinking skill
- Experience with data analytics, automation and process digitization tools, such as Power BI, Power Automate, VBA, Python or similar tools.
Experience:
- 8+ years of overall professional experience, including 5+ years of relevant eCOM/retail experience in AR, preferably within e-commerce, retail or other consumer-facing businesses.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance would be preferred
What you'll build (your key responsibilities)
- Manage accounts receivable for China's D2C across e-commerce and retail
- Support to set up AR solutions and SAP processing for new channels
- Reconcile platform settlements and handle exceptions through root-cause analysis, professional judgement and effective resolution
- Translate business requirements into effective finance and AR solutions
- Support the Douyin B2C go-live and stabilization
- Strengthen AR financial controls as the business scales
- Build deep expertise in China D2C finance, SAP, and platform-specific and retail AR, becoming a trusted SME for complex D2C topics
If you've worked in a role where you managed accounts receivable for e-commerce, retail, or consumer-facing businesses, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ownership of the numbers, your problem-solving mindset, and your calm, careful approach as new channels go live. A collaborative, service-minded approach goes a long way.
Life on the team
You'll join the AR team in our BSO China team, part of the LEGO Group. We work in a collaborative, open way — a safe space for everyone — providing reliable, agile, and value-adding finance operations. You'll gain broad exposure across finance processes,markets group and cross-functional transformation projects.
What success looks like
In your first year, you'll establish solid ownership of the Douyin AR scope, supporting a successful go-live and stabilization and ensuring stable, well-controlled operations. You'll support the launch from day one, help it stabilize, and keep improving it, building deep expertise in China D2C finance along the way.
Looking ahead, the team is expanding China's D2C business, simplifying and standardizing finance processes, and strengthening controls and scalability — so there's room to grow. You'll work closely with China D2C KAM, finance and treasury partners, digital and order-management teams, global and regional D2C finance colleagues, and external platform partners.
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.
How we rate this
D2C Accounting Specialist at LEGO rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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