Manager Profitability Management - COS Variances

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Ensure the purposeful, controlled and efficient use of financial resources by providing dedicated financial planning & analysis within market Europe, with focus on Cos of Sales Standard and Variances. Provide value adding analyses and insights to the management team, to country clusters and to the adidas Group. Coordinate planning processes and target setting. Manage projects to drive market profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide FP&A teams, senior market-, country cluster- and adidas Group-management with correct, timely and in-depth financial insights regarding P&L, Balance Sheet and Statistics along with market and adidas Group processes
• Participate in projects to drive Europe profitability targets and ensure proper communication with all relevant stakeholders
• Provide ongoing support to Finance Leadership Europe, Europe Senior Leadership Team and business partner with other stakeholders e.g. demand planning, business development, HR, depending on defined processes and projects
• Contribute to the integrity of financial planning processes (forecast, budget, IBP, SBP) along with adidas Group processes & targets
• Coordinate alignment of targets and shifts between HQ, regions and sales channels and contribute to the financial target setting between adidas Group and market
• Implement standardized financial reporting and controlling processes & tools with ongoing drive for improvement & simplification and focus on cross- and inter-functional (finance-to-finance) efficiency
• Deliver information packages and commenting to create insights into Europe financial performance, e.g. presentations to Europe SLT, actual comments to Global Finance, etc.
• Manage ad-hoc requests towards Europe finance and provide insights and meaningful analyses to create transparency
• Consolidate results and forecasts and challenge financial input provided by the respective FP&A teams
• Conduct quality control and implementation of latest developments regarding monthly, quarterly and annual closing and planning activities to be compliant with internal and external rules and regulations
• Contribute to the further standardization and harmonization of financial processes across Europe finance in alignment with Global standards

Key Relationships:

Global: Group Finance (Market Finance, Corporate Planning & Reporting, Group Functions Finance, Group Accounting, Global FSS, Group Treasury),

Market: FP&A teams, Demand Planning, Business Development, HR

Country Clusters: Finance Directors, FP&A teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated analytical and financial modeling skills, comfortable with Finance and Accounting principles and strong financial statement analysis ability
• Very good communication skills and customer orientation
• Acting in a goal-oriented manner, prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance and urgency
• Thinks beyond the obvious and does not stop at the first answer
• Advanced in MS-Office and financial systems (Grape, BI, SAP)
• Fluent in English

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business administration with a focus on Finance / Controlling
• Min 3-5 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis