Purpose
Lead financial activities including strategic and mid-term planning for Originals Statement team while delivering actionable analysis and recommendations to the business on short term risks and opportunities. Leverage financial KPIs to ensure fact-based decision making and strong business performance. Drive non-financial KPIs within the BU to increase value creation, efficiency within product creation, and impactful resource investment strategies and decisions.
Key Responsibilities
* Partner with VP Statement and Senior Director Finance in strategic planning, target setting, and category profitability steering. Operationalize long term planning into initiatives that can be implemented into BU framework.
* Support and enhance SBP, Range Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes for BU Statement
* Advise and influence business plans with focus on both financial KPIs (Net Sales, Volume, Margin) and non-financial KPIs (NPS) to achieve category strategic ambitions
* Improve, develop and implement state of the art analytical tools to improve e.g. margin calculation, market analysis, Category P&L, Strategic Business Planning etc. This includes standard reporting as well as ad-hoc analysis.
* Sign responsible for MWB budget controlling for Originals including Statement for activation purposes and events as well as the related EIM portfolio of assets and related analysis and business cases (e.g. royalty commitments).
* Proactively optimize day to day processes and operational work flows to impact and achieve department and category targets for both seasonal and fiscal timeframes
* Provide comprehensive business expertise for the Statement team and act as an interface between functions (Product, Design, Operations, CTC, Retail, Range Architecture) to drive transparency and collaboration
* Support cost center managers in all financial aspects (e.g. investment and recruitment requests, cost recharges, etc.)
* Lead cost center forecasting and budgeting with specific focus on creating transparency to planning and actual development. In addition, lead all budgeting and forecasting for global Own Retail investments (CAPEX and Operations) as well as Marketing Working Budget investments.
Key Relationships
* VP Originals Statement and respective Product Marketing Teams
* CTC and Brand Comms teams for Statement
* Design
* Marketing Operations, Global Operations
* Group Finance, Controlling, Accounting
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Business understanding of processes and structure
* Result orientation and pro-activity
* High degree of customer orientation with challenger attitude
* Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment and work cross-
* Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
* Challenging attitude
* Experience in project management
* Good communication skills for adapting and exchanging information, mainly within the organization
* MS Office, excellent Excel, Advanced SAP, ideally Cognos, RMA and other adidas specific systems
* Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
Qualifications
1. University degree in Business Administration / Finance / Controlling
2. Strong MS Office competence, excellent Excel, SAP, Cognos
3. 5-8 years professional work experience in Finance department