Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Support Financial Planning & Analysis Team (FP&A) with providing financial analysis, reporting and forecasting to support business decision making processes.

Analyze and forecast financial, economic and other data, to provide accurate and timely information (cost & sales development), working closely with multiple departments to monitor budget and forecast.

Key Responsibilities:  

• Support Local Finance Team (Sales & Brand FP&A) in day to day business and monitoring financial KPIs (Sales & Operating Expenses).
• Analyze and compare financial data from different sources and provide stakeholders with accurate financial analysis and other ad-hoc reporting. Interprete trends and patterns and drive conclusions.  
• Support FP&A Team in regular financial planning processes (Forecast, Budget) and during month-end closing in line with adidas processes and requirements
• Support masterdata maintenance to ensure data consistenscy and set up of harmonized reporting
• Ensure efficient communication with stakeholders and establish a valued business partnership due to objective and holistic support.

Key Relationships: 

• Local Finance
• Local Sales (Wholesale & Franchise) & Marketing
• FP&A European Cluster Hub
• GBS

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced in Microsoft Office and digital applications
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Attention to details
• High degree of customer orientation
• Analytical and financial modeling skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and financial statement analysis
• Acting in a goal-oriented manner, prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance
• Display ownership and pro-actively drive assigned tasks.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• studying towards a degree in Finance/Controlling or related field 
• proven experience working in an office/corporate environment

• experience in Finance/Controlling would be an asset".