Adidas DIRECTOR INTERNAL CONTROLS 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

293165934

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Position is integral to ensuring Corporate Governance through business partnering with leadership across NAM. It aims at:

• Develop, support and lead initiatives/projects focused on improving the efficiency, transparency and effectiveness of business processes
• Ensuring compliance with applicable external laws and internal regulations as well as the established Group Internal Control frameworks, and Group/Market/Brand best practices and policies.
• Protect Companyphysical assets (e.g. stock, cash on different premises), including public and internal dishonesty, procedural failure, administrative error and wastage,as well as maximized profit ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
• Responsible for working with management to identify opportunities for improvement, measure and analyze current business processes and redesign processes to meet the needs of a complex and growing business.
• Leading a set of Internal Control experts to ensure the effective execution of the areas responsibilities

This role is expected to bring an action-oriented mindset alongside the functional expertise to drive positive changes.

Leadership & People management

• Develop team-first mindset through collaboration with other Finance and business areas, and develop own Internal Control team.
• Distribute the team efforts effectively to achieve results.
• Develop and expand a large network within our own function and transversely (internally or externally).
• Constantly strive to achieve operational excellence in the quest to build a winning culture and driving positive corporate change.

Risk Assessment & Key controls review

• Communicate and understand the adidas business to take a risk-based approach to manage the control environment.
• Timely coordination the testing of key business controls as well as ensuring the mandatory documentation.
• Ensure speedily remediation of all identified control deficiencies in collaboration with Senior Leadership and Management.
• Bring expertise on different control frameworks that relate to adidas including eCom, wholesale, and retail sales channels.

• Seek for proactive and continuous review of controls to assess and identify risk within the business.
• Reduce and mitigate risk with the implementation of comprehensive risk reduction strategies and countermeasures.
• Ensure that SAP access rights are review, and properly approve by GBS. (LAC)

Policies & Procedures awareness and processes improvement

• Ensure the team raise awareness/maintain knowledge of the Global/Market policies and procedures, including regular trainings at local level.
• Guarantee correctly design, develop, implementation and regular update of local & regional policies (based on global/market policies if existing), procedures and related internal controls, based on best practices and Group requirements.
• Develop, support and lead initiatives/projects focused on improving the efficiency, transparency and effectiveness of business processes.

Reporting

• (e.g. Effectiveness rate, abnormal transaction analysis, shrinkage data, incident and control deficiencies)
• Immediate communication of major control deficiencies to the relevant parties.
• Support and/or conduct investigations and complete timely reports/findings to the relevant stakeholders.
• Timely coordination of the local bi-annual Representation Letter process for Accounting.
• Participation in the Global Internal Audit meetings, Global/Market ICS network including ICS calls, WebEx sessions, conferences, sharing of best practices.

Key Relationships:

• Group: Group Policies & Internal Controls, Group Internal Audit, Group Risk & Compliance Management, GBS and Cross functional process owners.
• External auditors.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Deliver a great performance record in your career history.
• Lead / manage a business initiative within the function or market.
• Effectively identify and manage project and stakeholder risks.
• Efficiently manage project resources to apply them to the objectives / goals of the project.
• Demonstrated experience in more than one area / discipline of the function.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from senior executives, stakeholders and cross functional business leaders.
• Strong auditing/internal control skills and process improvement experience.
• Accounting accreditation and Finance knowledge preferred.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 10 years’ experience in similar function/position
• Accounting/auditing qualification preferred
• Consumer goods experience and track record in similar industry preferred
• Knowledge on project management