דרושים Associate Gbs Gl ב-Adidas ב-בריטניה

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure a timely collection of open receivables balance by working closely with the customer, internal stakeholders and solve any causes of non-payments.
• Ensure that all payments are received are allocated accurately and timely without any errors.
• Follow-up in case of discrepancies and ensure they are handled within a reasonable time frame.
• Be accountable and demonstrate ownership, being able to manage escalations towards management, proposing proactive feedback summary and recommended solutions in alignment with the department policy.
• Be able to back-up the Team Leader solving operational complex situations, and to guide, provide training and support to other team members by applying streamlined approaches.
• Lead short-term defined scope projects or support larger projects within finance operations also processing periodic reviews to identify, assess and take action to mitigate risks to project success.
• Manage customer relationship, which includes problem resolution and root cause analysis.
• Assess and review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis to mitigate risk for adidas according to credit policy.
• Perform review, analysis and proposal of release on credit block deliveries.
• Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to the Credit & Collections leadership team and Sales / Finance stakeholders.
• Act as the point of contact for the process related issues and support on escalations.
• Track disputes, forward to the right department for their solution and follow-up until their closing.
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation.
• Provide insight into the calculation of the required provision for uncollectable balances.
• Support requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong financial controls over the work performed.
• Ensure desktop procedures are updated in line with standards and policies.

Key Relationships

• Cash Application
• Customer Primary Data
• Account and Sales Operations
• Sales
• Market Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong Finance Acumen
• Solid experience with SAP and Excel
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and French in a business environment setting
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation
• Ability to navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• 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

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field
• 5 plus years relevant work experience in the accounting / corporate finance area
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function

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

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)
• Supportteam lead on project delivery, e.g. efficiency improvement, retail system upgrade
• Raise and implement smart work ideas

Key Relationships:

Colleagues connected via the process area in other parts of GBS

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Good communication skills

Very good

Good accounting knowledge

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent education required
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in Accounting

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Effectively execute the GPS systems and process strategy within the allocated area of responsibility, Reporting, Process or System. Execute responsibilities to deliver accurate systems and process performance. Collaborate with stakeholders to reactively and proactively enhance performance. Support system and process testing to ensure end-to-end system integrity

Key Responsibilities:

• Adapt to changes coming from internally and externally driven projects ensuring processes and systems are in sync.
• Execute testing scrips and sign off on testingSupport allocated processes as process agent ensuring processes are documented, mapped and up to date
• Manage execution, set up of systems and processes to achieve a high level of performance and accuracy.
• Support and escalate identified issues and inconsistenciesExecute system updates directed by internal GPS teams and stakeholders to ensure system setup is following predefined rules and timelines
• Execute end-to-end release testing and identify impacts coming from internal or external changes
• Collaborate with operational teams and GPS stakeholders with in-depth analysis and system insight to resolve unforeseen issues or to provide a basis for systematic or process change
• Develop and sustain a superior level of system and process insight to support operational teams
• Ensure Primary Data validations are met with System requirements for both SAP SCM SNP/AFS and SAP IBP/S4 planning systems

Key Relationships:

• Global Product Supply Operational Teams
• Market SCM (BPM)
• GOPS/GSCM Strategy & Programs
• IT KSR
• IT Product teams

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to prioritize, manage and complete projects/initiatives under a deadline
• Demonstrate initiative and result orientation
• Coordination and follow-up skills
• Service-minded and consumer/customer oriented
• Analytical thinking and ability to solve problems
• Team player and effective collaborator
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Good knowledge of MS Office (advanced MS Excel skills)
• Strong SAP know-how in ERP and demand planning systems (SAP SCM SNP, AFS, GPS, IBP and/or S4) is preferred
• Fluent in English, additional language is a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree is a plus
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain management, operations or planning, preferably in the Accessories, Apparel or Footwear industries
• Experience with BI dataset tools and MicroStrategy reporting tools

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure a timely collection of receivables by working closely with the customer and internal stakeholders and solve any causes of non-payment.

• Ensure that all payments are received are allocated accurately and timely without any errors.

• Follow-up in case of discrepancies and ensure they are handled within a reasonable time frame.

• Manage customer relationship, which includes problem resolution and root cause analysis.

• Assess and review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis to mitigate risk for adidas according to credit policy.

• Perform review, analysis and proposal of release on credit block deliveries.

• Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to the Credit & Collections leadership team and Sales / Finance stakeholders.

• Track disputes, forward to the right department for their solution and follow-up until their closing.

• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation.

• Ensure desktop procedures are updated in line with standards and policies.

Key Relationships

• Cash Application

• Customer Primary Data

• Account and Sales Operations

• Sales

• Market Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Good Finance Acumen

• Experience with SAP and Excel

• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar

• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business environment setting

• Ability to pay close attention to detail

• High degree of customer orientation

• Good Problem solving and analytical skills

• Self-motivated and self-directed individual

• Curious and growth mindset; keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone, look beyond the obvious

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field
• 2 plus years relevant work experience in accounting / corporate finance area
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function
• Available for a temporary position of approx. 12 months