Senior Specialist Financial Analyst - EM South at adidas Group

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

• The Financial Analyst’s role is to provide support with financial planning, analysis, reporting, and data input in compliance with adidas Group finance policies and guidance.
• This requires a good understanding of the business, accurate and timely reporting as well as in-depth analysis combined with competent and professional business partnering. Good comprehension of a complex business model and working with multiple currencies & legal structures.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the FP&A team with accurate, timely and in-depth monthly and ad hoc reporting and analysis
• Data input for planning processes (forecast, budget, IBP, SBP) and support the monthly financial closing in line with adidas Group standards/policies
• Monthly review, in-depth analysis and controlling of key P&L items and CAPEX to ensure accurate reporting
• Responsible for creation of finance master data creation
• Proactively identify key process and system issues by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information
• Strong collaboration with FP&A and local finance team to support strict global and local deadlines
• Preparation of monthly local financial results and business update presentations

KPI’s

• Timely submission of routine Financial and Management Reports
• Accuracy of actual reporting and forecasts validation
• Validation of budget inputs based on actual and forecast reporting
• Meet reporting deadlines

Key Relationships

• Local FP&A Team
• Local Finance Team
• Hub FP&A Team
• Commercial departments (Sales, SCM, HR, Legal, IT)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent attention to detail
• Business understanding of processes and structure
• Strong Analytical skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and good financial statement analysis ability
• Multi-tasking with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently
• Desire to work collaboratively with teams across the business
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Pro-active and results orientated
• Ability to accept and meet deadlines
• Ability to work in consistently changing environment
• Good analytics by managing large data quantities from multiple sources (SAP, Excel, BI)
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in business administration with focus on Finance/Controlling (preferably CA or CIMA) with solid commercial experience
• Experience in financial reporting and analysis
• Advanced Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience using AI (MS Co-Pilot) advantageous
• SAP & BI experience is an advantage
• 3-4+ years of experience in the same or similar field
• Solid accounting skills and experience
• Industry experience: ideally in retail/apparel/fashion/consumer goods