GBS Finance team

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.

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