SENIOR MANAGER FINANCE & ANALYTICS JOB DETAILS | ADIDAS

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization.
Act as a business partner to Global Sourcing in managing and resolving Trade financial topics and provide sound financial advice and solution.
Drive continuous process improvement and system development to achieve operational efficiency Oversee financial accounting, reporting, treasury and system function of adidas global headquarters, production locations and partner functions e.
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supply chain management teams Drive vendor financing management, supplier financial review, as well as market intelligence to ensure overall compliance and governance   Key Responsibilities.
Trade Finance and Accounting Planning, Analysis and Process Optimization.
Take lead in driving continuous improvement on processes, systems and internal control standards of trade finance activities and to achieve financial control effectiveness and operation efficiency.
Drive and implement planning and analytics for trade finance, working capital,  to provide cost transparency to stakeholders.
Streamline and optimize end-to-end Trade finance and accounting flow involving vendors, business teams, Global share service centre and other stakeholders in the value chain.
Review policies and procedures to Trade finance related topics                      Supplier Financial Analysis and Market Intelligence.
Own and govern the Supplier Financial Review process and methodology.
Establish and maintain strong cross functional working relationships among finance, vendors and sourcing teams and provide business insights for control and performance improvement.
Analyse and drive performance, detect risk, identify potential improvement and drive corresponding solutions and actions together with business team.
Project and Ad-hoc tasks.
Lead or participate team level or cross functional level projects in trade finance areas or sourcing finance related topics.
Support trade finance team or other team’s ad-hoc assignments.
Key Relationships.
Senior leadership and LO teams in Sourcing Sourcing Finance and other head office finance teams.
Group Accounting, Group Treasuring and Global Share Service Centers.
Other Group Functions (IT, Custom, Supply Chain, Sustainability etc.) Suppliers (Tier 1 and Tier 2) Vendor Master Set Up Team   Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.
Strong business acumen and business partnering skills Result oriented and pro-active with a high degree of customer orientation Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources Strong communication and presentation skills Excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint) Master of BI tools and data tools is preferred (Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Python).
People management and process improvement experience is an advantage Able to work and deliver results in a evolving  and dynamic environment Fluent in business English (written and spoken)   Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications.
University degree in Business Administration/ Finance/ Accounting/Economics/Data Analysis or equivalent background in related fields.
5+ years of work experience in related field Knowledge of fast-moving consumer goods, fashion industry and/or retail is an advantage