SENIOR MANAGER SALES FINANCE - RETAIL (M/F/D) JOB DETAILS | ADIDAS

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation.
The Senior Manager Retail Finance acts as a financial consultant and business partner to the Global Retail team by giving recommendations to enable and drive fact-based decision-making.
The Senior Manager Retail Finance supports and steers the business to achieve (financial) targets as well as the strategy based on the analysis of the major financial KPIs.
This is supported by the creation of transparency about business performance.
Key Responsibilities.
Business Partnering  Act as the financial business partner for the Global Retail Sr.
Management and their teams  Drive deep-dives to advise Sr.
Management about opportunities and risks in reaching commercial ambitions within global retail business   Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions  Act as a facilitator between Global Sales Finance, Business Partners and finance key counterparts in the markets to support market needs   Lead medium- to large sized projects in partnership with Global Retail team, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements    Innovation & Strategy  Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools (PowerBI)   Define and ensure sustainable implementation of an innovative KPI framework combining  financial and non-financial KPIs   Significantly contribute to the achievement of the Retail and Sales Finance strategy   Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets  Go after efficiency and simplification in analysis, reporting and communication.
Less is more   Promote and implement benchmarking and best practice sharing within Sales Finance    Reporting, Analysis & Expertise  Lead the financial review of worldwide retail channel activities to conduct the overall annual financial goal of the company   Create transparency in business performance and profitability to support fact-based decision making, covering Retail KPIs and store P&L  Identify opportunities and risks, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions   Drive and ensure solid reporting set up in dynamic environment, ensuring legalities and confidentiality requirements are met   Ensure that Retail standardized reporting and ad hoc analysis is consistent with the Corporate FP&A team  Ensure Retail Finance is compliant with all applicable group policies     Key Relationships.
(Sr) Vice President Retail and sub-teams (Retail Operations, Retail Transformation, Retail Merchandising)  Market Retail Finance Teams  Global and Regional Retail Sales teams on all hierarchical levels  Corporate Controlling team on all hierarchy levels  Global Business Services and Global IT  Global data management team  Other functions in DtC (e.
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Real Estate, Product Planning)    Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.
Comprehensive Retail business understanding combined with excellent finance and analytical skills   High degree of customer orientation, ability to see the customer’s point of view and to bring opinions of his/her own  Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics of an international company  Ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing and fast-pacing environment  Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers  Strength in conceptualization and frame-working  Excellent communication skills for persuasion and convincing others   Strong result orientation and pro-activity –hands on approach   Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational plans   Excellent finance skills and solid skills in building effective simulations  Excellent knowledge of PowerBI; skills to develop state of the art dashboards based on a large amount of data from several sources; basic SQL knowledge  Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint; analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources    Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications.
University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling  Comprehensive understanding of system landscape  5-10 years working experience in Finance department