Job description
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.
- 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
- HR
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.
- 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.
To apply for this job please visit www.naukri.com.