Specialist Accounts Payable jobs at Adidas in Pakistan, Lahore

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

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

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Ensuring correct and daily execution of key responsibilities in the Adidas Global Business Services Center according to the requirements of the company Accounting Manual and specific group policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• General Ledger accounts reconciliation, accounts review and provide variances explanations by investigating and following up on differences

• Handling, monitoring, and posting different types of journal entries and clearings

• Tax calendar management to avoid fines and penalties

• Raise a booking request to AP team for Tax declaration

• Raise a payment request to Treasury team for Tax declaration.

• Monitoring and following up on differences between systems interfaces

• Support the successful execution of all Tax accounting activities, ensuring work is completed in a timely and accurate manner

• Perform period-end closing activities such as accruals, provisions, balance sheet reclassifications, and late adjustments.

• Close contact with the local Finance Teams across Adidas subsidiaries and other GBS located in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, handling daily queries such as mismatch–aging in intercompany and non-reconciled items in open reconciliations.

• Support team lead/ Manager in daily operations, KPI measurement, Audit request, Internal controls and other improvement initiatives

Key Relationships:

• Market finance

• Process Owners

• IT & Corporate Solutions

• Group Accounting

• Operations team

• Other GBS streams

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Good Accounting knowledge (IFRS)

• Ability to read, write, and communicate in English in a business setting (B2+)

• Ability to pay close attention to detail

• Problem-solving mindset and analytical skills

• Be a team player

• Experience with SAP, and Power BI is an advantage

• Experience in a Shared Service environment is an advantage

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in accounting/Finance/ Controlling or similar.

• 3 plus years of relevant work experience in the accounting/finance business area

• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Administer Retail Development Projects in the Region in an efficient manner and co-ordinate deliverables and process steps with involved parties, according to the Retail Development processes to ensure timely store openings and cost effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze quotations of the store project of the countries
• Place the furniture, fittings and accessories orders with the different suppliers of the store project
• Place and co-ordinate the orders of VM/In-store communication support material of the stores jointly with the country organizations
• Calculate display capacity of the stores
• Track shipment and payments
• Follow up with involved parties within the Retail Development process
• Act as a business contact for suppliers-customer service global and for Store Implementation Managers/ Retail Directors/ Logistics and all the departments involved on each country
• Follow up of the inventory and forecast
• Analysis of the Retail Development KPIs and CAPEX

Key Relationships:

• Retail Operation
• Visual Merchandising
• Buying & Trading
• Sales Academy

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• University degree or equivalent education required
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of functional area
• Minimum 2 years experience in job or job function

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 2 years experience

SPECIALIST ACCOUNTING - UAE

: Emerging Markets- GCC

: Finance

Direct Reporting Line: Senior Specialist Accounting - UAE

: Dubai, UAE

Dubai, UAE

Number of Personnel Managed: N/A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

To ensure financial data is kept up to date by booking, reconciling accounts and preparing the necessary reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Booking of trade and non-trade related expenses.
  • Fixed Assets: creation, booking, disposal, depreciation and tagging
  • Perform Fixed asset yearly physical count and FA reconciliations
  • Capex tracking for all retail stores and tracking capex POs
  • Capex Request (CAR) handling and submission
  • Perform IFRS 16 valuations and reconciliation for leases and post prepayments & provisions
  • Create store lease commitment tracker
  • Create SPOMA cost tracker for booking committed liabilities
  • Approving and checking T&E expenses submitted through Concur
  • Business Amex administrator for any amendments or setup requirements.
  • Enforcing the T&E policy and ensure company compliance
  • Employee Vendor account reconciliations and clearing
  • Providing detailed review of Travel allowances per department on monthly basis
  • Support in annual external audit
  • Payroll accounting and reconciliations
  • Retail store tender reconciliations for 60+ stores, managing tender, sale reconciliations
  • Petty cash handling and booking for (Finance, HR and facilities) and cash counts
  • Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations for GCC companies per month
  • Reconciliation of intercompany accounts and run payments for related parties
  • Handle inventory and GIT ageing and reconciliations
  • Prepare reconciliation of cost of sales per month
  • Issue OOH reports for GCC per function for month end review
  • Ensure accuracy of all retail store & overheads on P&L
  • Support with month end activities (SAP / CFIN)
  • Ad-hoc requests for general accounting

Controlling:

• • Measure progress on own KPIs.
  • Monitor all allocated reports.
  • Ensures adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.

KPI’s:

• Data Accuracy
• Policy Enforcement
• Time management
• Stakeholder management

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• FP& A Team
• Other adidas group finance teams

IT skills

• Outlook: intermediate
• Word: intermediate
• Excel: advanced
• PowerPoint: basic
• SAP: basic/intermediate experience is preferred.

Language skills

English (written and verbal)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance, ACCA or CA
• Qualitied accounting/audit background with accounting experience
• 3-5 years of accounting experience with good record in result driven performance