Adidas SENIOR MANAGER 

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City 

27985992

Be a key player in further improving, streamlining, and innovating Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis processes, procedures, tools in the adidas Finance organization by exploring and leveraging the power of adidas standard – Business Intelligence Tools (MS Power-BI from Frontend and Backend perspective), Advanced Analytics (incl. Machine Learning) and other technologies. The position holder will support our Digital Finance transformation and the change to a modern Reporting, Planning & Analysis mindset within the FP&A community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership

• Build and lead an efficient and high performing team, with a strong quality, innovation, and service mindset.

• Develop functional, technical, and social skills within the team and drive continuous learning, and individual growth.
• Develop and continuously improve training, onboarding, and documentation processes to ensure long term knowledge retention.
• Create positive team spirit and a highly engagement, motivating environment to enable team members to perform and keep attrition low.
• Ensure smooth operation of the business by taking on ownership for related actions.
• Drive the automation/standardization of processes, procedures, and ways of working across the assigned area of responsibility and cross functionally by analyzing deliverables and initiating both continuous improvement and / or change initiatives.

• Reporting

• Design, manage & execute , insightful, and visually appealing reporting solutions and ad hoc analysis
• Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations, and solutions

• Innovation/Future Capability
  • Innovate Financial Planning and Analysis/Reporting processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by pro-actively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies
  • Analyze existing processes and implement technological improvements, to drive efficiency in working procesdures across relevant teams
  • Improve storytelling through data visualization / dashboards specific to the needs of a variety of different stakeholders, i.e. senior executives, Finance professionals, cross functional business leaders / teams, etc.
  • Ensure End-2-End automation process between Business Intelligence Frontend (Power-BI) and Backend (Lakehouse-Databricks) for the ease of Visualization/Dashboard creation.

• Others

• Lead small and medium sized projects, implement findings, and ensure sustainability of achievements.
• Drive/Track Reporting, Dashboarding and Tool implementations from Project Management perspective.
• Provide comprehensive expertise for assigned functional areas/systems and processes towards the Internal HQ Corporate Controlling team

Key Relationships:

• GBS Finance team / GBS Innovation Team
• adidas Finance Team
• Business transformation team (TRANS4RM project)
• Global Data & Analytics Team (DNA)

• Accounting, Taxes, Treasury

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Authentic belief in the power of analytics and technological development, a strong will to innovate ways of working combined with the proven execution ability & stamina to effect lasting change. Experience in Digital Finance transformation a strong plus.
• Excellent BI Frontend/Reporting/Dashboarding capabilities: Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analysis for Office (Power-BI Architect Level)
• Comprehensive understanding of Finance and Accounting principles, processes & structures.
• Technical expertise: Thorough understanding of relational databases /DW/BW (SAP, Databricks) as well as Microsoft VBA/SQL/automation tools
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing environment.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Excellent knowledge of Python, R or other statistical computing languages / tools and a working knowledge of the same.
• Comprehensive financial statement analysis capability paired with a well-developed business acumen and multiple years of hands-on experience in commercial finance in an operational Finance environment.
• Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop mid-size teams.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources.
• Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions, and dynamics within an international company
• Proven track record in successful teamwork being part of global, multinational projects.
• High degree of customer orientation
• Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines.
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/ Controlling or similar
• University degree in Information Technology
• Leadership experience
• 8 -10 plus years relevant work experience as CPA or equivalent with at least 6+ years relevant work experience in Information Technology/as a Power-BI Developer/Architect or equivalent
• Broad and deep understanding of job function
• Experience in a Shared Service environment