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Adidas SENIOR MANAGER 
Greece, Attica, Athens 
172465821

02.09.2024

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The general purpose the TECH Finance is to be a financial consultant to the TECH SeniorManagement by giving recommendations to enable and drive fact-based decision-making. Thestrategy based on the analysis of number indicators. This is supported by the creation of


Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with assigned business functions and the respective Sr. Management.
  • Enable fact based decision making by creating transparency on all cost levels (OPEX, CAPEX) through budgeting, forecasting, and the creation of business cases.
  • Manage cost objects and support cost object owners in all financial tasks:
    • Creation and changes of primary data
    • Cost planning and booking according to accounting rules
    • Investment planning and booking according to accounting rules
    • Internal resources planning and recruitment requests
    • Cost rebooking and recharging
    • Provide supporting information for tax compliance
  • Perform month-end OPEX and CAPEX closing in collaboration with accounting team, ensuring compliance with accounting policy and IFRS standards
  • Manage Tech intangible assets to ensure correct Net Book Value and monthly Amortization run
  • Support the creation of business cases for planned investment in the assigned area of responsibility, challenging underlying assumptions, ensuring standard format approaches are followed, and drive/own the integrity of financial information.
  • Perform “postmortems” analysis on executed business casesto determine business case quality and related lessons learned, including effectively passing that feedback through to the creators of the cases.
  • Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions.
  • Design, develop and implement state-of-the-art analytic tools
  • Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on targets, e.g. global definitions of cost (align market feedback with corporate accounting team in charge of policy)
  • Significantly contribute to the achievement of overall HQ Finance and Value Creation Management strategy
  • Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions.
  • Manage & execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis
  • Create new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems
  • Lead medium- large sized projects in finance area, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements
  • Ensure, constantly improve and foster smooth operation of the day today business, systems and working methods by taking on full ownership for related actions.

Key Relationships:

  • and CIO Office
  • HQ Finance and Value Creation Management
  • Corporate Controlling Teams(e.g. Corporate FP&A, Sales Finance, Market Finance)
  • GOPS Finance
  • CP&PM
  • GBS
  • Corporate Accounting and Corporate Tax

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Strong financial controlling skillset
  • Excellent analytical skills in order to synthesize complex data and develop innovative solutions
  • Excellent communication skills in order to negotiate with internal and/or external parties with possible divergent interests and with different business areas
  • Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
  • Strong problem-solving mindset (structuring, analysis, synthesis) to operate cross-functionally and understand external business drivers
  • High degree of customer orientation
  • Process-avid, result-oriented and solution-minded end-to-end thinking
  • Advanced project management skillsincl. planning and organization
  • Comprehensive understanding of system landscape with strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, specific analytics tools are a plus
  • Advanced Ability to work in a fast-paced business environment with different internationalcultures
  • Innovative and inspirative team player
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling/International Management/Economics
  • Minimum of 6-8 years’relevant work experience in Finance
  • Track record of outstanding performance in education and career