Adidas SENIOR MANAGER SALES FINANCE 

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne 

654306864

Key responsibilities:

• Innovate processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by pro-actively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies
• Develop tactical and strategic reporting & analytics for Leadership to support decision making
• Drive maintenance and improvement of existing reports and dashboards
• Work with D&A team to continuously improve data quality and availability
• Act as a change agent and accelerator for innovative tools, technologies, and methods within sales finance community
• Provide training/upskilling to the sales finance community (organizing workshops, identifying & sharing relevant learning opportunities, etc)
• Provide expertise, ad-hoc support and guidance to the sales finance community on statistics, analytics and visualization tools (SQL, Power BI)

Key Relationships:

• Global Sales Finance
• Global Sales
• Market Finance teams
• Global D&A team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong will to innovate ways of working combined with the proven execution ability; problem solving skills and solution orientated
• Proven creativity and curiosity to identify and solve a wide range of Function/Business challenges
• Strong analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Strong understanding of financial processes (forecasting, month close, reporting procedures); comfortable with Finance principles, financial modeling and financial statement/gap analysis
• Good project management skills, including the ability to work in several projects simultaneously
• Proven team player who can collaborate across functions and organizations
• In depth understanding of market business model / system landscape and experience across relevant data domains (B2B, B2C, Brand, etc.) is a big plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree (Bachelor, Master, MBA) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Digital or a data-driven related field
• 5-10 years of operational finance experience within fashion or brand-driven environment or 5+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical role
• Hands-on experience with statistics or analytics tools (frontend and database technologies, SQL, Power BI, R/Python, Alteryx, or similar)
• Advanced experience with reporting and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI)