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Director BU Finance - Originals (m/f)
Adidas Group
Herzogenaurach, , Germany
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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Director BU Finance acts as a financial advisor and business partner to the brand adidas senior management team and their respective Business Units by giving recommendations to enable and drive fact-based decision-making. The Director BU Finance supervises and drives the business planning and tracking to achieve (financial) targets as well as the brand’s strategy. In his role the Director BU Finance provides guidance and insights to Marketing and Finance teams in the area of planning & target setting and convinces global and local teams to coordinate and streamline processes and procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
• Advise and influence adidas Originals senior management team in strategic planning as well as translating strategic business targets in seasonal and sub-category targets
• Lead and direct ad-hoc and scenario analysis for fast decision taking. Ensure financial guidelines are respected and identify critical processes & advice solutions
• Inspire new process and reporting standards for entire P&L tracking. Significantly impact to the achievement of the department strategy.
• Enable a fact based decision-making process by creating transparency on key performance indicators with respect to business plans (Net Sales, volume, margin, range size)
• Supervise the Budgeting, Forecasting and Management of cost centers and Marketing Working Budget and lead Business Analyst Team in all financial tasks (e.g. investment and recruiting requests, cost charges etc.)
• Direct and design further improvements to adidas reporting and analytical tools regarding range efficiency, drop rounds, workload indicators, margin calculation, market overlap etc.
• This includes standard reporting, ad-hoc analysis as well as official royalty reporting
• Proactively identify significant improvement potential, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions
• Provide comprehensive business expertise for the adidas management team and act as an interface between different functions (Marketing, Design, Marketing Operations, Go-to Market Teams, Retail Merchandizing etc.) and different development locations (Herzogenaurach and Portland) to drive alignment and to ensure smooth operation of the business.
• Manage and develop team members and set environment for performance.
• Develop functional, technical and social skills within the team (esp. provide guidance and leadership to direct reports, interns, trainees, etc.)
• Provide training, mentorship and leadership to define standards, processes and procedures within own area of responsibility but also in the larger circle of concern within the finance and marketing department.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• High degree of customer orientation
• Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment
• Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
• Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
• Very good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others both internally and externally
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop a mid-size team
• Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational and strategic plans
• Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
1. University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling
2. Comprehensive understanding of system landscape (Grape, SAP, POS BW, BI Sales, GRS, Cognos, TM1, Microstrategy, Marketing Creation & master data systems)
3. 10+ years working experience in Finance department
4. 5+ years in people management role
We are looking forward to receiving your application!