Team Lead GBS Taxes

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Ensuring correct and daily execution of key responsibilities in the Adidas Global Business Services Center according to the requirements of the company Accounting Manual and specific group policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complex General Ledger accounts reconciliation
• accounts review and provide variances explanations by investigating and following up on differences
• Handling, monitoring, and posting different types of journal entries and clearings
• KPIs monitoring
• Tax calendar management to avoid fines and penalties
• Raise a booking request to AP team for Tax declaration
• Raise a payment request to Treasury team for Tax declaration.
• Monitoring and following up on differences between systems interfaces
• Support/ Supervise the successful execution of all Tax accounting activities, ensuring work is completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Perform/Supervise period-end closing activities such as accruals, provisions, balance sheet reclassifications, and late adjustments.
• Close contact with the local Finance Teams across Adidas subsidiaries and other GBS located in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, handling daily queries such as mismatch–aging in non-reconciled items.
• Support Manager in daily operations, KPI measurement, Audit request, Internal controls and other improvement initiatives

Key Relationships:

 • Market finance

• Process Owners

• IT & Corporate Solutions

• Group Accounting

• Operations team

• Other GBS streams

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

 • Good Accounting knowledge (IFRS)

• Ability to read, write, and communicate in English in a business setting (B2+)

• Ability to pay close attention to detail

• Problem-solving mindset and analytical skills

• Be a team player

• Experience with SAP, and Power BI is an advantage

• Experience in a Shared Service environment is an advantage

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in accounting/Finance/ Controlling or similar.

• 3 plus years of relevant work experience in the accounting/finance business area

• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function