Manager Accounting

Exciting times at adidas! As we continue to grow, we're building a pool of talented professionals for future opportunities in Accounting. By applying, you'll join our talent pipeline, and we'll reach out when a role that matches your profile becomes available.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Perform month-end-closing, corrections and in-depth analysis to ensure the accuracy in the financial statement (e.g. accruals and provisions, settlement files, etc.).
• Responsible for a team of specialists accountants to achieve the goals.
• Ensure correct revaluation of the balance sheet accounts of all companies within area of responsibility.
• Monitoring of systems interfaces, review and explain variations in the different IT systems (e.g. SAP, OMNI, etc).
• Manage the review of general ledger account reconciliations within area of responsibility and analysis as part of the monthly close, investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Prepare/update documentation of accounting and reporting procedures within area of responsibility.
• Identify, implement, and/or support process improvements and harmonization with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Advise and support local, regional, and global projects, as required; provide financial expertise in such projects.
• Ensure accurate and timely regular reporting (monthly, quarterly, annual), including internal and external audits.
• Maintains financial security by adhering to internal controls.
• Manage, train and develops associates for the job and broader responsibilities within the company.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of complex accounting matters, quick problem-solving skills and strong collaboration with other finance and non-finance teams.
• Adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team.
• Ability to mediate and bring different stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus and drive decision making
• Deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable.
• Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated. High integrity, ethics, and strong values; excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation, and a high degree of accuracy are all essential.
• Good problem-solving skills; strong decision-making skills; innovative use of IT tools and new technology; and good time management and priority setting skills required.
• Must have strong accounting skills.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance.
• Fluency in written & spoken English.
• Advanced in Excel/Word/PowerPoint.
• SAP experience preferred
• +3 years of leadership experience

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

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