Adidas SENIOR MANAGER SALES FINANCE 

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City 

526012192

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering

• Act as the financial business partner for the Global Retail Sr. Management and their teams

• Drive deep-dives to advise Sr. Management about opportunities and risks in reaching commercial ambitions within global retail business

• Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions

• Act as a facilitator between Global Sales Finance, Business Partners and finance key counterparts in the markets to support market needs

• Lead medium- to large sized projects in partnership with Global Retail team, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements

Innovation & Strategy

• Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools (PowerBI)

• Define and ensure sustainable implementation of an innovative KPI framework combining financial and non-financial KPIs

• Significantly contribute to the achievement of the Retail and Sales Finance strategy

• Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets

• Go after efficiency and simplification in analysis, reporting and communication. Less is more

• Promote and implement benchmarking and best practice sharing within Sales Finance

Reporting, Analysis & Expertise

• Lead the financial review of worldwide retail channel activities to conduct the overall annual financial goal of the company

• Create transparency in business performance and profitability to support fact-based decision making, covering Retail KPIs and store P&L

• Identify opportunities and risks, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions

• Drive and ensure solid reporting set up in dynamic environment, ensuring legalities and confidentiality requirements are met

• Ensure that Retail standardized reporting and ad hoc analysis is consistent with the Corporate FP&A team

• Ensure Retail Finance is compliant with all applicable group policies

Key Relationships:

• (Sr) Vice President Retail and sub-teams (Retail Operations, Retail Transformation, Retail Merchandising)

• Market Retail Finance Teams

• Global and Regional Retail Sales teams on all hierarchical levels

• Corporate Controlling team on all hierarchy levels

• Global Business Services and Global IT

• Global data management team

• Other functions in DtC (e.g. Real Estate, Product Planning)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Comprehensive Retail business understanding combined with excellent finance and analytical skills

• High degree of customer orientation, ability to see the customer’s point of view and to bring opinions of his/her own

• Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics of an international company

• Ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing and fast-pacing environment

• Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers

• Strength in conceptualization and frame-working

• Excellent communication skills for persuasion and convincing others

• Strong result orientation and pro-activity –hands on approach

• Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational plans

• Excellent finance skills and solid skills in building effective simulations

• Excellent knowledge of PowerBI; skills to develop state of the art dashboards based on a large amount of data from several sources; basic SQL knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint; analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling

• Comprehensive understanding of system landscape

• 5-10 years working experience in Finance department