Be a key player in further improving, streamlining, and innovating Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis processes, procedures, tools in the adidas Finance organization. 

The India Hub team supports the business by providing information that will enable financial decision taking by creating transparency through highly accurate and action-oriented reporting and business analysis. Furthermore, the team partners with the rest of the Finance organization to increase accuracy in the planning activities, such as forecasting and budgeting.

The position holder will support building, managing, and coordinating the India Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis Hub for the assigned area. They will collaborate with the rest of the Finance organization in conducting the budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost monitoring process for the adidas company. As the single point of contact (SPOC) for the assigned area of responsibility, the position holder will support steering the business to achieve (financial) targets as well as strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Leadership

• Build and lead an efficient and high performing team, with a strong quality, innovation, and service mindset

• Develop functional, technical, and social skills within the team and drive continuous learning, and individual growth.
• Develop and continuously improve training, onboarding, and documentation processes to ensure long term knowledge retention.
• Create positive team spirit and a highly engagement, motivating environment to enable team members to perform and keep attrition low
• Ensure smooth operation of the business by taking on ownership for related actions 
• Support the standardization of processes, procedures, and ways of working across the assigned area of responsibility and cross functionally by analyzing deliverables and initiating both continuous improvement and / or change initiatives

• Planning & Forecasting 

• Enable the budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes by acting as an expert and contact person (SPOC) for specific planning topics  

• Enable fact-based decision taking by creating transparency on budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes 
• Support the development of new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets 

• Reporting 

• Manage & execute standardized reporting and ad hoc analysis 
• Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations, and solutions 

• Others 

• Lead small and medium sized projects, implement findings, and ensure sustainability of achievements 
• Support the creation of new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems 
• Develop and implement state of the art analytic tools for your area of responsibility 

• Identify improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions 
• Provide comprehensive expertise for assigned functional areas/systems and processes towards

Key Relationships: 

• Finance Teams in assigned area of responsibility
• GBS Finance team
• adidas Finance Team
• Business transformation team (TRANS4RM project)
• Accounting, Taxes, Treasury
• HR

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:  

• Comprehensive understanding of Finance and Accounting principles, processes & structures.
• Strong financial statement analysis capability paired with a well-developed business acumen and multiple years of hands-on experience in commercial finance in an operational Finance environment.
• Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop mid-size teams 
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Authentic belief in the power of analytics and technological development, a strong will to innovate ways of working combined with the proven execution ability & stamina to effect lasting change. Experience in Digital Finance transformation a strong plus.
• System expertise: Very good MS office skills (especially Excel), SAP S/4 Hana, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) and Power BI
• Technical expertise: Thorough understanding of relational databases /DW/BW (SAP, Databricks) as well as Microsoft VBA/SQL/automation tools
• Knowledge of Python, R or other statistical computing languages / tools is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing environment 
• Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions, and dynamics within an international company 
• Proven track record in successful teamwork being part of global, multinational projects.
• High degree of customer orientation
• Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

• University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/ Controlling or similar
• Leadership experience
• 7+ years relevant work experience as CPA or equivalent
• Broad and deep understanding of job function
• Experience in a Shared Service environment
• CPA certified
• Lean training certification