Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Financial Analyst (FP&A) to provide support with financial planning, analysis, reporting, and data input in compliance to adidas Group finance policies and guidance. This requires a good understanding of the business, accurate and timely reporting as well as in-depth analysis combined with competent and professional business partnering. Good comprehension of a complex business model and working with multiple currencies & legal structures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the F, P&A team with accurate, timely and in-depth monthly and ad hoc reporting and analysis.
• Data input for planning processes (forecast, budget, IBP, SBP) and support the monthly financial closing in line with adidas Group standards/policies.
• Monthly review, in-depth analysis and controlling of key P&L items to ensure accurate reporting.
• Proactively identify key process and system issues by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.
• Strong collaboration with F, P&A and local finance team to support strict global and local deadlines.
• Preparation of monthly local financial results and business update presentations.

KPI’s:

• Timely submission of routine Financial and Management Reports
• Accuracy of actual reporting and forecasts validation
• Validation of budget inputs based on actual and forecast reporting
• Meet reporting deadlines

Key Relationships:

• • Local F, P& A Team
  • Local Finance Team
  • Hub F, P & A Team
  • Commercial departments (Sales, Retail, Marketing)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Business understanding of processes and structure.
• Strong Analytical skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and good financial statement analysis ability.
• Multi-tasking with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
• Desire to work collaboratively with teams across the business
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Pro-active and results orientated.
• Ability to accept and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in consistently changing environment.
• Good analytics by managing large data quantities from multiple sources (SAP, Excel, BI).
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business administration with focus on Finance/Controlling with solid commercial experience.
• Experience in financial reporting and analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint).
• SAP & BI experience is an advantage.
• 2-4 years of experience in the same or similar field.
• Solid accounting skills and experience.
• Industry experience: ideally in retail/apparel/fashion/consumer goods.