Senior Finance Analyst FP&A Planning
Purpose: Responsible for timely and accurate preparation of management reporting, including presentations, and for financial analysis on an ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Provides meaningful reporting and high level of analysis on performance against plan to help drive business growth targets. Develop analytic and business modelling tools. Provide accurate and efficient reports with a focus on identifying opportunities while adjusting to dynamically changing corporate strategies. Supports the financial portion of the strategic business planning process & budget planning.
Key Accountabilities:
- Prepare insightful financial analysis of business results against the strategic plan, budget, and forecast; evaluate performance to both internal and external benchmarks
- Facilitate and maintain the integrity of the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process, including the input of these figures into Global financial reporting tools
- Support planning of future years and execution of commercial and brand alignments, through v300, budget and SBP processes
- Support the CFO and senior management with financial analysis, ad-hoc reporting and executive level presentations
- Manage and participate in cross functional projects as required
- Contribute to the development of standardized best practice reporting and control methods
- Develop and maintain databases, tables and processes to automate reports and analysis. Extract data from various internal systems and sources.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from senior management, cross functional business leaders, and peers, including non-financial professionals
- Demonstrated analytical skills, most notably strong financial statement analysis capabilities; financial modelling a plus
- Detail oriented, able to prioritize workload to accomplish multiple assignments under tight timelines
- Advanced skills in Excel; strongly proficient skills in Word, PowerPoint, Access, and SAP (or other ERP software), IBM Cognos TM1 or other enterprise planning software a plus
- Ability to think cross functionally, join data from various sources, and draw meaningful conclusions/develop innovative solutions
- Ability to troubleshoot and define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions in order to find a solution
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, challenging environment
- Ability to travel domestically
- Sporting goods industry and adidas business knowledge preferred
- Employment at adidas is contingent upon providing COVID-19 vaccination status, although adidas will permit you to begin employment prior to submitting this information. adidas is an equal opportunity employer and will consider requests for accommodation in accordance with all relevant laws.
- This role requires working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Portland, OR
- Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.
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