GBS Finance team

• 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.

• 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

• GBS Finance team / GBS Innovation Team

• adidas Finance Team

• Business transformation team (TRANS4RM project)

• Global Data Analytics Team (DNA)

• Accounting, Taxes, Treasury

• HR

• 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.

• Good Knowledge of Python, R or other statistical computing languages / tools is a plus.

• 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 soures.

• 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.