Sr Specialist Gbs Control & Analytics jobs at Adidas in United Arab Emirates, Dubai

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

At adidas, we have a clear purpose: “Through sport, we have the power to change lives.” This guiding principle shapes how we operate as a company, how we collaborate with our partners, how we create our products, and how we connect with our consumers. Our values represent essential behaviours and mindsets, reflecting the “You Got This” attitude we strive to see in every team member.

This same purpose and mindset are at the heart of Concept to Consumer (CTC) role that enable consumer-focused category execution by coordinating product availability, impactful seasonal campaigns activations and driving in-season trading strategies. This role ensures cross-functional alignment and operational excellence across channels to deliver impactful consumer experiences and business results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate and consolidate market and financial insights (incl. sell-out data), to inform category strategy, transforming it into actionable insights for category and commercial teams.
• Own the input of country range selection into planning systems, enabling a seamless end-to-end sell-in process.
• Monitor and report category performance in-season, identifying risks and opportunities to optimize sell-through.
• Support the briefing with local expertise to the business unit on needed articles, specific retailer needs and other volume and image driving opportunities, local market and category trends, and business opportunities to maximize the category´s potential in the country.
• Be the key contact for local commercial and brand activation teams for the assigned category for the country, with a clear overview of the execution in the market, key channels and accounts through frequent trade and digital visits/review.
• Provide any required scenario analysis related to the Category, and participate of 90-60-30 meetings to be fully on board on a Brand Activation perspective on status of the category, and take corrective actions in case they are necessary.
• Coordinate in-season trading strategies across channels, ensuring agility in response to market dynamics.
• Lead category activation planning in collaboration with Brand Comms, Omni, and channels teams.
• Manage campaign calendars and launch timelines, communicating changes and coordinating execution across functions.
• Ensure product availability by aligning with supply chain, demand planning, and account teams.
• Support discount and inventory strategies, including slow mover management and license expiration considerations.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and communications, acting as the central connector between CTC, channels, and brand teams.

Key Relationships:

• CTC Category Leads
• Marketing Operations
• Brand Comms, SPOMA and Omnichannel Teams
• Demand Planning
• Supply Chain team

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities (e.g., Power BI)
• Deep understanding of consumer and market dynamics
• Excellent coordination and communication skills
• Proficiency in campaign planning and product lifecycle management
• Ability to manage complexity and drive cross-functional alignment

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent education
• Minimum 2 years of experience in category management, marketing, or commercial operations

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 open items and support reconciliation between supplier accounts and the supplier statements, request missing documents and potential reimbursements
• Secure timely cross-checks on regular controls, as needed
• Perform quality checks on Purchase requests, Non-Trade related
• 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

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• Strong Finance Acumen

• Solid experience with SAP
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and Italian 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:

Key Responsibilities:

· Budget execution and control.

· Accountable for invoicing process controls and system issue resolution.

· Freight services and payments conciliation

· Develop, manage, and update regional transportation decks and scorecards

• Drive data-driven decision making in whole BR network deliveries

• Analyse and pinpoint top improvement areas within Supply Chain

• Own the financial performance reporting of the department.

• Analyse and report full visibility for Net Sales monthly Recognition share.

• Carry out ad hoc analysis to drive agile decision making

• Support ongoing and designed projects with data, by building and justifying business cases

• Build automized reports (Excel, Data warehouse, or web based) for team use

• Drive and own data reliability and richness on company-wide used data tools

• Work with the technical teams to enhance the transportation reporting capabilities

• Improve the understanding, awareness and proper use of available data within the organization

Key Relationships:

• Freight Transportation management

• Initiate and drive data driven discussions with cross-functional internal stakeholders, as well as external partners

• Couple the data with qualitative input, issues, feedback, and insights to prepare, plan, align and deliver solutions

• Identify, analyze and interpret trends, patterns and outliers in complex data sets

• Work with senior management to prioritize business and information needs

• Proactively manage stakeholders, identify needs and manage communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• Thinks Big and has bias for action. Expected to be creative, to plan, shine and deliver.

• End-to-end mindset with a holistic view of problems and opportunities on hand

• Business acumen, to be able to grasp and help drive relevant decision making

• Has backbone, develops and constructively communicates his opinion, not scared to disagree, and yet commit.

• Seeks the best for the business always in mind

• Transparently presents the story the data indicates, do not manipulate the data to prove the story

• Solution builder with a creative mind and solid experience in delivering result-oriented analysis

• Highly self-motivated, and acts like an ‘owner’

• Earns trust, both of his/her team and internal/external stakeholders. Does what he/she says in due time, and dares to say ‘No’ when required so.

• Engaging, open and perceptive to feedback and improvement

• Autonomous and capable of handling all-way communication (upward, lateral and downward)

• Solid presentation, deck building and storytelling skills

• Discipline in planning, time management and organization skills

• Can learn the technical grounds and talk to non-technical people in a common language

Hard skills:

• SAP FICO intermedium – advanced preferred

• Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

• Technical expertise regarding data models, data mining, segmentation and presentation techniques

• Strong knowledge and expertise with reporting packages (Business Objects for instance), databases (SQL), PowerBI, Microstrategy, VBA and Tableau.

• Number savvy with strong analytical skills

• Adept at queries, MS Excel based analysis, report writing and presenting the findings

• Having worked in an e-com environment is considered an advantage

• Understanding of a complex transportation / supply chain network

• Working experience with a Transportation Management and Optimization system is a plus

• Can locate and define new process improvement processes

• Dives deep with proven data analytics skills, and willing to ‘get his/her hands dirty’

• Frugal. Does not compensate speed or quality over each other.

• Has experience in building and evaluating Business Cases with scenario planning

• Financial literacy is a plus

People management skills:

• Fosters a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion

• Insists on the Highest Standards. Setting high expectations on him/herself and the partnering teams

• Good at prioritization, effort estimation, assignment and hand over

• Curious, open to learn & develop. Leverages, and shares his/her expertise

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree from relevant departments of universities required.

• Demonstrated data analytics skills with various tools

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in an advanced analytics environment – preferably with a supply chain and/or transportation management background (relevant consultancy included)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

This is a management position in adidas GBS HR Japan payroll operation and rewards services team. This position is responsible for the general management of the Payroll & Rewards Services Team, including but not limited to: business partner satisfaction and issue resolution, people management and development, delivery of defined Services as listed below, 3rd party vendor management, etc.

• Time management
• Compensation administration
• Benefit administration
• Payroll administration
• Employee inquiries
• Onsite support activities
• Other country specific processes administration

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure team’s management including coaching, training, motivation and performance appraisal guidance.
• Ensure effective collaboration with GBS HR Dalian team.
• Ensure good relationships with business partners and the global functional team on a proactive basis.
• Support the payroll and benefits process in the resolution of difficult questions in the day to day operations.
• Develop and report on operational performance indications.
• Supervise the daily operations by adhering to the agreed SLAs towards the business partners.
• Drive the improvement of the policy adherence and the required discipline in the processes in scope.
• Ensure compliance with legal and tax requirements and internal policies.
• Generate ideas for process improvements with respect to the processes in scope and ensure high quality and efficient work.
• Effectively manage, develop and train the team.
• Ensure accurate and timely regular reporting (monthly, quarterly and annual).

Key Relationships

• Director GBS HR Operations
• Global Functional Teams
• Country HR Leadership and Business Partners
• Country HR Rewards Team
• GBS HR Dalain Team
• Payroll & Benefits Services Vendors

Knowledge, Skills and Requirements

• Ample knowledge and expertise in Japan payroll and benefits operation and services.
• Excellent understanding and experience in GBS operating model
• Strong ability in execution and problem solving/ Strong interpersonal skills
• Good sense of organization and process orientation
• Enthusiastic and results-driven/ Self-motivated and a team player/ Management skills and effective communicator/ International mind-set
• High level of affinity to and experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SuccessFactor and ticketing (ServiceNow) solutions
• Complete familiarity with Microsoft Office or equivalent tools
• Able to read, write and communicate fluently in Japanese and English or Mandarin.
• Enthusiastic and results-driven
• Strong customer focus as the basis of our business
• Knowledge of process management and process improvements

isite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience in a similar function for a multi-national company

• 2+ years of management experience
• University degree and equivalent professional experience
• Best knowledge of the business needs, company rules, country law and tax requirements
• Good command of both spoken and written English and Japanese

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

• Ensuring correct and daily execution of key responsibilities in the GBS Center according to the requirements of GBS policies, procedures and guidelines, and according to the Group Accounting Manual for specific area of responsibility (Accounts receivable/Retail/eCom)
• Self-directed worker for a specific service area
• Supports organizational effectiveness through the identification and communication of process improvement opportunities

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• Perform accounting tasks in AR Wholesale/Retail/eCom for larger markets, having to deal with specific cases of each market
• Check and review tasks handled by junior members, e.g. cash application, master data changes
• Perform sales vs. collection reconciliation for key customers, landlords and online stores
• Perform reports preparation and analysis, e.g. AR deduction report, eCom reconciliation report, Retail aging and collection analysis report
• Perform and review month end closing tasks
• Deal with ad hoc requests and coordinate with others
• Perform, coordinate and review audit tasks, reviewing the quality results within team
• Create and maintain desktop procedures, checking for inconsistencies and improvement opportunities (SME only)
• Handling of internal and external customer queries on complex cases
• Prepare training material and give training on specific cases for own area of responsibility (SME only)
• Group email and ticket allocation and handling
• Identify problems and bring to attention of Supervisor
• Deliver training to junior member and new member (e.g. sales vs. collection recon)
• Support team lead on project delivery, e.g. efficiency improvement, retail system upgrade
• Raise and implement smart work ideas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Ensuring correct and daily execution of key responsibilities in the GBS Center according to the requirements of GBS policies, procedures and guidelines, and according to the Group Accounting Manual for specific area of responsibility (Accounts receivable/Retail/eCom)Self-directed worker for a specific service areaSupports organizational effectiveness through the identification and communication of process improvement opportunities

Key Responsibilities:

Key Relationships:·

Team colleagues· Superior· Colleagues connected via the process area in other parts of GBS· Business Partner key contacts (only some areas e.g. GL)

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Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

University degree or equivalent education requiredMinimum of 1 year work experience in Finance