Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

We’re looking for a strategic finance leader to join the adidas Pacific team. This role partners closely with both our Retail and Marketing Activation teams, playing a key role in driving financial performance, ensuring robust forecasting, and enabling data-driven decisions. You'll bring strong financial acumen and a collaborative mindset to support planning, budgeting, and insightful analysis that fuels our business success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the FP&A business partner for the Retail team, ensuring commercial initiatives are financially sound and performance is optimised through:

  • Understanding retail strategy and aligning financial targets

  • Analysing monthly fleet performance and identifying improvements

  • Preparing business cases for new store openings and handling setup admin

  • Managing monthly store bonus calculations

  • Driving forecast and budget submissions with precision

  • Leading ad hoc analysis to challenge assumptions and influence strategy

• Support the Pacific-wide forecasting and budgeting process, including submissions to regional and global HQs and data uploads to global reporting systems

• Partner with the Marketing Activation team to track and optimise spend across campaigns and sports marketing, ensuring budget accuracy and value for money

• Consolidate and analyse total OPEX, preparing detailed, accurate forecasts and delivering clear variance analysis

• Drive continuous improvement of FP&A and reporting processes to improve accuracy, speed, and insight quality

• Act as 2IC for the FP&A team, providing leadership and support across various finance projects and ad hoc tasks

Key Relationships:

• Director, FP&A

• Senior Director, Finance

• Senior Director, Retail

• Director, Brand Activation

• Emerging Markets FP&A Team

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 7+ years of experience in Financial Planning or similar finance leadership roles

• CPA or CA qualification essential

• Retail experience highly desirable

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills

• Exceptional analytical and Excel skills

• Proficiency in SAP; PowerBI experience is a plus

Requisite Education & Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting or Finance

• CPA or CA qualified

• 7+ years’ experience in a comparable financial planning role