Senior Specialist Gbs Taxes jobs at Adidas in Pakistan, Lahore

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As second line of defence, partner with Management to identify risk-based opportunities to improve business processes by balancing risk and control. Primary objectives: • Design and perform continuous monitoring (including risk monitoring and controls testing) to assess the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of risk management and controls. • Draw on process expertise and act on risk. • Develop and implement management resolutions that address root causes. • Shorten the time to management action.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and perform continuous monitoring to assess the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of risk management and controls.
• Actively provide risk-based vs control advice and/or solutions on new initiatives, transitions, and/or process changes.
• Continuous review of the ICS framework to ensure relevance to GBS operating model, GBS operations and balancing the risk/cost and benefits.
• Timely coordination/execution of the ICS testing (control reviews) including mandatory documentation in Teammate+ and heading remediation of all identified control deficiencies in collaboration with local Senior Management
• Drive Global Policy Manual (GPM) awareness and ensure GPM relevance to GBS operations.
• Follow up on ICS exceptions and/or CIA recommendations and ensure timely closure of actions/ issues.
• Act as the SPOC for internal and external audits.

Process/System Review
• Plan and conduct end-to-end process reviews/audit to identify risk / internal control issues/improvement. Ensure that proposed internal control(s) are embedded i.e. effective and efficient.

Data Analytics
• Assess, develop and build a data analytics framework to identify potential risks and anomalies as part of continuous monitoring. This includes but not limited to, identifying relevant data points to monitor on an ongoing basis.
• Independently manage and/or conduct data analytics to provide risk-based insights to stakeholders.
Key Relationships:

• GBS: Senior Leadership Team, GPOs, Delivery Excellence, Transition Management teams
• Market Internal controls teams and Finance Director.
• Group functions such as Global Internal controls, Group Policies & Accounting Principles, Group Risk & Compliance Management, etc.
• Internal and external auditors

• Effective communication and presentation skills with ability to influence and convey recommendations to address risks.
• Ability to understand and navigate within complex organization structures, diverse cultures, and system landscape.
• Strong data mindset and analytical capabilities with the ability to manage large volumes of data/information from various sources and connect the dots to derive meaningful observations.
• Knowledge in the use of SAP FI and advanced user of MS Office suite of products including Power BI.
• Experience working with SQL, Python, Databricks, CoPilot, Power Automate and Knime preferred.

• University degree or above
• CIA or CPA qualification is a plus.
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Minimum 8+ years of audit experience with an international audit firm and/or internal audit/internal control experience with a multinational company
• Profound knowledge of best practices in internal control/internal audit and policy & procedures
• Previous experience in Retail industry or shared services a plus

Employee Relations

• Lead resolution of complex employee relations matters, ensuring alignment with adidas policies and legal compliance.
• Partner with the Employee Relations Director to analyze trends and guide corrective action strategies.
• Provide coaching and guidance to leaders on labor and employment issues, fostering a consistent and positive employee experience.
• Manage sensitive cases including EEOC, DOL, ADA accommodations, and unemployment issues.

Talent Development & Workforce Planning

• Collaborate with Regional Directors, District Managers, and Retail Back Office leaders to drive performance management, succession planning, and employee development.
• Monitor organizational health and identify trends to inform strategic HR initiatives.
• Support staffing plans and internal talent pipelines to meet growth demands.
• Partner with Talent teams to build diverse, high-performing talent pools.
• Create and deliver training programs to enhance leadership capabilities and promote self-sufficiency.

HR Strategy & Administration

• Lead cross-functional HR projects and initiatives that support business goals.
• Act as a consultative partner to retail leaders, ensuring HR programs are understood and effectively implemented.
• Support organizational design and change management efforts.
• Serve as a liaison between business needs and HR systems, ensuring operational efficiency.
• Provide meeting support including content development and facilitation at regional and district levels.

Culture & Engagement

• Partner with HR Director to drive cultural transformation and change management initiatives.
• Promote a culture of recognition, fairness, and respect across all levels of the organization.
• Assist in developing communication strategies that reinforce company values and mission.

Key Relationships

• Retail HR Team
• Retail Back Office & Store Leadership
• Loss Prevention
• Talent Acquisition & Talent Partnering
• Compensation & Benefits
• Legal, Controlling, and Global HR Teams
• Local and Regional HR Managers & Specialists

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Proven ability to influence and build credibility with senior leaders and stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in leading, developing, and inspiring a team of HR professionals to deliver high-impact results.
• Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of retail sales drivers, financial metrics, and operational priorities.
• Expertise in employee relations, organizational development, and performance management, with the ability to coach through complex and sensitive issues.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and conflict resolution skills, with a high level of emotional intelligence and professionalism.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities to assess data, identify trends, and develop strategic HR solutions.
• Ability to evaluate organizational effectiveness and recommend HR strategies that drive performance and engagement.
• Comfortable managing high workloads and competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• High level of discretion and integrity in handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, make difficult people decisions, and support cultural transformation initiatives.
• Adept at working independently while collaborating effectively within a global, cross-functional HR team.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); experience with SAP HR and database systems is a plus.
• Ability to connect with and support a diverse range of individuals and personalities across regions and functions.
• Strong planning and execution skills with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• 6–8 years of progressive HR experience, ideally within a large, matrixed, and multinational organization.
• Prior experience in retail or a relevant consumer-facing industry strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of HR practices across employee relations, talent development, organizational design, and workforce planning.

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• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.​
• This role is 100% remote from your home office. The working location of this position is New York, NY.​
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation

Credit and Collections are responsible for performing daily activities such as Dunning and Collection, Dispute management and Credit Management. The team deliver all activities in timely manner and with the required quality. The team supports projects, including process standardisation, tools implementation and other ad hoc projects.

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• Handle medium size Customer Portfolio
• Secure timely collection of receivables by working closely with the customer and other finance teams and resolving the causes of non-payment
• Drive timely collection by following up on overdue invoices with customers, collection agencies and end consumers.
• Manage customer relationship, and escalate issue resolution
• Assess & review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis, calculate and suggest the required credit limits
• Decide on the release of the blocked orders and ensure timely release
• Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to sales and finance teams
• Manage the relationship with customer service and other stakeholders in the business.
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation
• Ensure the lowest possible write off for uncollectable balances
• Provide insight into the calculation of the required provision for uncollectable balances
• Support ongoing projects for the implementation of technology solutions
• Support requests from partner Finance department
• Establish and maintain strong financial controls over the work performed

  Key Relationships:

  • Cash Application Teams
  • Customer Service Teams
  • Record to Report Teams
  • Market Finance

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

  • Good Finance Acumen
  • Experience with SAP
  • Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
  • Ability to read, write and communicate in English and Spanish in a business setting
  • Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation
  • Good Problem solving and analytical skills
  • Self-motivated and self-directed individual
  • Availability to travel for periods of 3 to 4 weeks

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree
• 2 plus years relevant work experience in the accounting / business area
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Drive the development of procurement practices across categories including:

• Execute tactical buying process of low and mid value item across all categories and support category managers on the definition and deployment of Sourcing Strategy for the Cluster
• Realization of stakeholder management to maximize savings and procurement’s value contribution
• Supporting in contract management activities and ensuring, when required, a proper supplier relationship management
• Assure achieving of procurement compliance targets including policies, strategies, and processes
• Deliver committed annual Procurement savings and Global Business Services SLA and KPI’s
• Lead procurement content design, set up and maintenance

Execution of tactical buying process

• Analyze mid value tactical buys, facilitate high value tactical buy execution with the responsible category manager
• Ensure compliance throughout the entire process
• Search for potential suppliers, either existing or new ones
• ConductRFXs(negotiation, supplier selection) and support responding to suppliers in case of commercial or system related questions
• Facilitate alignment of technical requirements between internal stakeholders and suppliers
• For selected tactical buys, follow-up on technical evaluations with internal stakeholders to ensure timeliness of tendering process
• Execute negotiation, supplier selection and determine Purchase Order (PO) terms and conditions

Execution of content activities

• Set up and enable procurement content, such as e-catalogues, forms and connections to content marketplaces and external tools
• Identify improvement opportunities for additional content creation, with a focus on e-catalogues and their enablement on the procurement portal after alignment with the respective Category Managers.
• Propose continuous improvement initiatives based on observations from daily operations, e.g. buying channel optimization possibilities
• Act as a key contact within procurement for all questions and queries around procurement content

activities

• Support the sourcing & category management team with planning, executing and analyzing eSourcing events
• Lead eSourcing project design and monitor E2E eSourcing

Key Relationships:

• ,Logistics, Legal, Finance, etc)
• External: Suppliers & Agencies: Executives, Key Account Managers & Legal Council

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Intermediate knowledge in sourcing and procurement methodologies and concepts, business partnering and category management (7 steps strategic sourcing, Fact based Negotiations, etc.)
• Good knowledge of How to develop a Procurement Category strategy and conveyance
• Strong knowledge of procurement tools, processes, content and automation (E-sourcing -Ariba-, P2P - Ariba-, e-catalogues, buying channels, etc.)
• Strong ability to analyze data, specifications, and influence demand
• Capability to independently interact throughout the adidas Group and to work with virtual teams
• Knowledge and experience in projects and process management
• Strong analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management
• Proficiency in MS Office and preferably SAP MM/ Ariba
• FluentEnglishin spoken and written.
• Be flexible and agile to provide short term on-site support in adidas other locations (3-6 months)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement, engineering or legal, or comparable professional education
• Minimum 4 to 6 years’ professional experience in a similar functional domain or other related positions, with knowledge of category / market at hand; experience with supplier selection, negotiation and contracting
• Prefer procurement experiences withSEAand PAC markets

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance for internal customers on GBS S2P processes and policies and resolve queries for internal customers and suppliers

• Facilitate efficient use of the Source To Pay system (Ariba Guided Buying)

• Review of payment proposals for adidas subsidiaries

• Analyze suppliers accounts and update accordingly
• Secure timely cross-checks on regular controls, as needed
• Perform quality checks on Purchase requests, Non-Trade related

• Managing different queries from suppliers and business partners (e-mail, phone)

• Ensure timely analysis of Debit balance accounts by working closely with suppliers and other finance teams. Ensure they are balanced by resolving the causes of non-payment, requesting missing and complementary information and executing proper follow ups

Key Relationships:

• Internal Controls
• Other GBS departments
• Local markets
• Management
• Suppliers

Pre-requisits:

• Strong Finance Acumen
• Solid experience with SAP
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and Serbian/Croatian in a business setting
• Ability to pay close attention to detail, strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Solid interpersonal skills, navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures
• Highly results driven and self-motivated team player with compassion, integrity, trust and perseverance
• Curious and growth mindset; keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone, look beyond the obvious

What you’ll do

• Own forecasting and P&Ls, making sure sales, margin, and spend are on point.
• Run S&OP sessions and turn insights into clear actions.
• Build smart models and dashboards (think Power BI) that give teams clarity and speed.
• Keep the balance sheet tight — provisions, accruals, trade investments.
• Partner with leaders across the business to shape decisions with data.

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years in FP&A or finance business partnering
• Strong modelling + forecasting skills (Excel, Power BI a plus)
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders
• Leadership experience — you grow and inspire teams
• Ability to tell a clear story with data

We offer a performance related bonus, 30 days holiday,flexible bank holidays (swap up to 3 bank holidays per year for other days of leave), private health insurance &, generous employee discount, public gym & pool facilities.

To ensure everyone feels welcome we endeavour to accommodate everyone at all stages of the application and interview process. Should you need it, please let your recruitment partner know and they will be more than happy to help.