Adidas SR SPECIALIST ACCOUNTING 

United Kingdom, England, London 

732476321

: Finance

Direct Reporting Line: Manager Retail Accounting

Indirect/Second Reporting Line

: LAM

Personnel managed: Yes

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

to ensure any Retail data for adidas LAM is reported in a timely and accurately manner, and meets the requirements set within the adidas Group policies. This includes, butis not limited to,

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform month-end-closing, corrections and in-depth analysis of Retail related accounting topics to ensure the accuracy in the financial statement (e.g. accruals and provisions, IFRS16, shrinkage, payment methods, etc.).
• Support the reconciliation and investigate and resolve discrepancies for Retail GL accounts on a monthly basis.
• Ensure the correct accounting treatment is applied to all Retail held by adidas LAM locations and revaluation of the balance sheet accounts of all companies within area of responsibility.
• Monitoring of systems interfaces, review and explain variations in regarding of Retail in the different IT systems (e.g. SAP, RBO, etc).
• Identify, implement, and/or support process improvements and harmonization with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Support the implementation on Retail Accounting policies to ensure compliance with internal and local guidelines for both existing and future initiatives.
• Support the successful execution of all accounting activities for Retail topics, ensuring work is completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collaborate with Global Financial Shared Services and other teams on ad hoc Retail Accounting projects as required.
• Attends to queries from internal departments in relation to Retail Accounting policies and procedures.
• Assist in the preparation of internal and external audit requests.
• Maintains financial security by adhering to internal controls.

Key Relationships:

• GBS teams
• Group Accounting
• Internal and external auditors
• Retail operations leaders

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of complex accounting matters, quick problem-solving skills and strong collaboration with other finance and non-finance teams.
• Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team.
• Must be deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated. High integrity, ethics and strong values; excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation, and a high degree of accuracy are all essential.
• Good problem-solving skills; strong decision-making skills; innovative use of IT tools and new technology; and good time management and priority setting skills required.
• Must have strong accounting and analytical skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3+ years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance.
• Fluency in written & spoken English.
• SAP experience preferred.