Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Manager Financial Planning & Analysis, EM Central, would provide support to the EM Central team in, planning, analysis, and reporting overall financials, ensuring quality and integrity of the financials.

Key Responsibilities:

• The role assures the purposeful, controlled, and efficient use of financial resources by transparent analysis and reporting to proactively support business decision making processes and ensure effective internal controls.
• Drive monthly forecasting process and budget submissions.
• Support business Senior Management with correct, timely and in-depth standard reporting or selective ad hoc analysis.
• Develop and implement standardized business controlling processes & tools with ongoing drive for improvements & simplifications.
• Act as a trusted consultant by closely partnering up with Business Controlling in order to translate business requirements into executable and efficient processes & tools.
• Drive financial initiatives and ensure financial KPI’s are translated to business targets for business partners
• Provide expertise and ongoing financial information to business partners to assist in making business decisions to achieve growth, profitability, and targets.
• Run small sized projects and/or actively participate in projects.
• Implement adequate and aligned communication packages to present results, recommendations, and solutions.
• Keep up to date with trends in field of expertise.
• Support the monthly closing along with adidas Group standards/policies.
• Assume back up roles to cover colleagues.

KPI’s:

Monthly management reports (update & analysis)

• Accuracy of actual reporting and forecasts validation
• Feedback from key business partners

Key Relationships:

• FP&A team EM Central
• Director and Senior Managers Accounting EM Central
• All internal functions EM Central
• Senior Management Team EM Central
• FP&A team EM HUB

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Business understanding of processes, structure, creation, and monitoring of adequate and effective reporting, as well as in-depth analyses combined with competent and professional business partnering.
• Analytical and financial modeling skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and good financial statement analysis ability.
• Independent handling of a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Result orientation and pro-activity.
• High degree of customer orientation.
• Ability to accept and meet deadlines.
• Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment.
• Good analytics and presentation skills, 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.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Advanced System expertise in Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint).
• SAP/SAC experience is an advantage.