Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

The Financial Analyst’s role is to provide support with financial planning, analysis, reporting, and data input in compliance with 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 FP&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 and CAPEX to ensure accurate reporting

•Responsible for creation of finance master data creation

•Proactively identify key process and system issues by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information

•Strong collaboration with FP&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 FP&A Team

•Local Finance Team

•Hub FP&A Team

•Commercial departments (Sales, SCM, HR, Legal, IT)

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 (preferably CA or CIMA) with solid commercial experience

•Experience in financial reporting and analysis

•Advanced Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint)

•Experience using AI (MS Co-Pilot) advantageous

•SAP & BI experience is an advantage

•3-4+ years of experience in the same or similar field

•Solid accounting skills and experience

•Industry experience: ideally in retail/apparel/fashion/consumer goods