Finance Consultant jobs in United States, Colorado, Denver

Key Responsibilities:

• ATP Configuration : Configure and optimize the Available-to-Promise (ATP) functionality to ensure accurate and real-time inventory availability checks during order processing.
• BOP Management : Manage and streamline the Backorder Processing system to prioritize and reprocess orders efficiently, ensuring customer expectations are met even in cases of stock shortages.
• SAP SD Module Expertise : Customize, configure, and support SAP SD modules, specifically focusing on Sales Order Processing, ATP checks, and integration with other SAP modules like MM.
• Supply protection (CA-ATP-SUP) - Issue Resolution and Support. Provide day-to-day SUP support to ongoing issues, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to ATP, BOP, and Sales Orders.
• Business Process Optimization : Identify and implement improvements to sales order processing, backorder handling, and ATP checks, aligning them with best practices in supply chain and order management.
• Testing and Go-Live Support : Support in system testing, including user acceptance testing (UAT), and provide go-live support during project rollouts.
• Strong experience with issue resolution , root cause analysis , and incident management in a support environment.

Required Skills and Experience:

• SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) experience, with a deep understanding of ATP (Available-to-Promise) and BOP (Backorder Processing) functionalities.
• Experience with SAP APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) or SAP S/4HANA for ATP and Supply Chain Optimization is a plus.
• ABAP knowledge is a must for troubleshooting, debugging the code with minimum support from outside.
• Experience in Business Process Re-engineering related to Sales Order Processing, ATP, and BOP.

Education and Certifications:

• A degree in Business , Information Technology , Supply Chain Management , or a related field.
• SAP Certification in SD , SCM , or S/4HANA is highly preferred.
• Certified SAP Functional Consultant (SD or SCM) is a strong advantage.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent communication skills for working with stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to address complex issues related to ATP, SUP and BOP.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Senior Specialist, Seasonal Brand Planning supports the execution of the seasonal planning cycle by consolidating and analyzing key inputs across volume, margin, pricing, and range. The role contributes to aligning brand and financial targets by enabling transparency, building reporting tools, and supporting content creation for milestone meetings.

Working closely with Demand Planning, Finance, and CTC teams, the role helps ensure that EMC’s seasonal plans are informed by fact-based insights and aligned to strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support translation of strategic business targets into seasonal and category-level inputs
• Assist in ensuring financial guidelines are reflected in the planning process
• Create transparency on key performance indicators such as Net Sales, volume, margin, pricing, and range size
• Prepare analysis and content for seasonal brand planning meetings and management reviews
• Support improvement of reporting and analytical tools related to range efficiency, margin calculation, drop rounds, and overlap
• Contribute to the development of a seasonal planning tool and help connect it with fiscal planning processes

Key Relationships:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Finance
• Purchasing
• Demand Planning EM

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Good understanding of commercial and financial concepts
• Ability to structure data and simplify complexity
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• High attention to detail and process discipline
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Preferable experience in the sporting goods or apparel industry

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics or related field
• Understanding of planning and reporting systems (e.g., SAP, IBP, Power BI, M3)
• 2–4 years of experience in Demand Planning, Financial Planning, or Business Analysis

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Manager Data & Analytics, you will have to effectively cross-collaborate with multiple stakeholders and you are responsible for delivering cutting-edge analytics services to stakeholders and enable them to make fact-based decisions.To be successful in this role you will have to acquire a good understanding of the South Korea business needs, processes, ways of working and how to incorporate them into the Global technology available, to deliver best in class analytics, data solutions and process design.In this role you will have the chance to further develop and apply your technical and analytical skills on top of the newest technologies.

1. Data & Analytics

• Contribute to continuous development of analytical, data and platform solutions which are aligned to global frameworks and with a focus on the South Korea data needs, analytics platform migration and harmonization towards global standards.
• Manage demand for insights and analytics. Conduct collection, tracking, mining and analysis of data and the generation of fact-based insights using multiple data sources.
• Provide analytical and technical services to stakeholders within the South Korea region.
• Execute assigned projects in areas such as analytics implementation, database integration, data management, data quality, data harmonization, etc.
• Support the implementation of strategies for data accessibility, management, quality, and the overall availability of data.
• Present and promote analysis results and insights to colleagues at all levels, including senior stakeholders, in a way that allows them to understand the value of your work, apply your output, and realize business potential.
• You see opportunities and provide solutions for data process enhancements and automation.

2. Consulting

• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommends options, implementing if required.
• Collaborates and facilitates with stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Identify business gaps and come with solutions towards a more efficient way of working
• Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.

3. Reporting

• Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures or refine existing structures within your area of responsibility in alignment with Market and Global Analytics Frameworks and Data Governance.
• Help distill best practice guidance from other markets and other adidas stakeholders to maximize the use of analytics capabilities within South Korea.
• Take ownership of business intelligence by providing self-service reporting solutions to other teams as well as creating awareness of the state of the business by highlighting key focus areas to senior management.
• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Drive acceptance tests in order to assure that market requirements and sync with business needs

4. Innovation

• Build a strong internal and external network and contribute to the growth and development of the South Korea Analytics community.
• Deliver a state-of-the-art analytical services that will result in a data savvy and driven organization.

Key Relationships:

• Data & Analytics Organization (DNA)
• South Korea business functions (SCM, Finance, Brand Marketing, eCom, Business Development, Wholesale/Retail, adidas Golf)
• Local and Global IT

Education & Professional Experience :

• University degree in the field of Business, Information Technology or equivalent
• >5 years of experience in data management and analytics
• Proficient spoken and written command of English is a must
• Experience in working in a diverse and global team preferable
• A passion for delivering data-based recommendations for quantifiable improvements in business results.

• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely.
• Experience with BI tool management (Microstrategy, PowerBI, Tableau ..)

• Experience with analytics tools and disciplines (SQL, Python, database management ..).
• Project management skills, including the ability to lead projects or work on several projects simultaneously
• Proficient in MS Office

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Specialist advice

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization’s planning and operations.
• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Requirements definition and management

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Porting/software configuration

• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.

Application support

• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.

Key Relationships:

• Global IT
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 9 years of experience in IT
• 7 years of experience in relevant area
• Experience in Finance transformation projects
• S/4Hana Finance and CFIN experience as a plus
• Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects