Adidas SENIOR SPECIALIST 

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City 

570962562

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as an offsite lead for Europe Retail channel and ensure to maintain proactive communication with the stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong sense of responsibility and deliver the assigned reports on time to the stakeholders with accuracy and quality
• Execute budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes ensuring data quality and integrity across various systems and tools
• Support the supervisor to partner with the business within the assigned area of responsibility
• Engage the creation of transparency on budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes and contribute for the integrity of those activities
• Ensure data mechanization and daily/ monthly maintenance of the information in the reporting / budget systems
• Ensure smooth operation of day to day business by taking on ownership for related actions
• Look continuously for improvement of daily tasks to optimize controlling, FP&A and overall finance execution and allow improved sharing of key financial information
• Execute standardized reporting with end-to-end sense checks and partner with adidas finance teams/market controllers for ad-hoc analysis
• Manage cost centers and support cost center managers in all financial tasks (e.g. investment and recruitment requests, cost recharges, etc.)
• Manage / support small sized projects; support the implementation of findings and sustainability of achievements
• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results
• Closely coordinate and communicate Market action plans with supply planning

Key Relationships:

• GBS Controlling Team and Finance teams
• adidas Europe Finance Team
• adidas senior management team
• adidas Europe Market Controllers
• Accounting

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong financial acumen including thorough understanding of P&L structure, KPI’s and ability to understand business context of the discussions etc.,
• System expertise: Very good MS office skills (especially Excel), Power BI including Power Query, SAP S/4 Hana and SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) skills preferred
• Ability to handle large data sets and bring out meaningful reports
• Experience of Central Finance (CFIN) implementation (preferred)
• Proficient in reading, writing, and communicating in English in a business environment. Ability to pay close attention to detail.
• Good Problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven track record in successful team work being part of global, multinational projects.
• Multi-cultural awareness, open minded to working in diverse business environments.
• Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/ Controlling or similar

• 7 plus years relevant work experience in FP&A, controlling areas

• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function

• Experience in a Shared Service environment

• Lean training