Financial Planning Role - Global Business Services

Key Responsibilities:

- Leadership

o Build and lead an efficient and high performing team, with a strong quality, innovation, and service mindset

o Develop functional, technical, and social skills within the team and drive continuous learning, and individual growth.

o Develop and continuously improve training, onboarding, and documentation processes to ensure long term knowledge retention.

o Create positive team spirit and a highly engagement, motivating environment to enable team members to perform and keep attrition low

o Ensure smooth operation of the business by taking on ownership for related actions

o Drive / support the 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

- Planning & Forecasting

o Enable the budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes by acting as an expert and contact person (SPOC) for specific planning topics

o Enable fact-based decision taking by creating transparency on budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes

o Support the development of new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets

- Reporting

o Design, manage & execute highly accurate, insightful, and visually appealing reporting solutions and ad hoc analysis

o Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations, and solutions

- Others

o Lead medium sized projects, implement findings, and ensure sustainability of achievements

o Support the creation of new and improved working methods

o Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools for area of responsibility

o Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions

o Provide comprehensive expertise for assigned functional areas/systems and processes

Key Relationships:

- Finance Teams in assigned area of responsibility

- GBS Finance team

- adidas Finance Team

- Business transformation team (TRANS4RM project)

- Accounting, Taxes, Treasury

- HR