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Senior Director Commercial Finance
Adidas Group
Portland, OR, United States
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Purpose
Directs the financial performance and delivery of the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes for the adidas US Commercial organizations, including Wholesale, Retail, eCom, and Team Services. Ensures the integrity and continuous improvement of the end-to-end management of the finance teams supporting these businesses to optimize the financial and operational performance of adidas US. Serves as the finance lead in all strategic business planning for the adidas US organization. Provides guidance to the Canadian Finance team and for the incorporation and consolidation of Canadian commercial strategies into the overall NAM financial strategy.
Key Accountabilities
• Directs the management of financial plans, targets, strategies and controls that focus on achieving desired financial and business objectives of the adidas US Commercial business.
• Fosters the relationships and service levels between Commercial Finance leadership and adidas US Business Leadership, as well as corporate support functions, including Corporate Finance, Local Finance, Operations, Financial Shared Services and Credit.
• Provides consolidated US Commercial financial results to VP NAM and key US business leaders.
• Partners with the head of Marketing Finance to create a consolidated and standardized view across the adidas US organization.
• Strategizes cross functionally to optimize profitability, growth prospects, operational execution, order book delivery, budget management and strategy decisions for the US Commercial market.
• Ensures financial and non-financial managers are provided top notch and highly accurate information and analysis for their business decisions.
• Creates and monitors financial plans, targets, strategies and controls that focus on achieving desired financial and business objectives.
• Drives sales and margin growth across the commercial channels by ensuring the delivery of action-oriented analysis of product supply, demand and pricing issues. Provides transparency and status reporting.
• Analyzes proposed business risks, opportunities and pending decisions to determine impact on financial results, including post mortems on outcomes.
• Oversee the execution of adidas US operating and capital expenditures and strategic plans.
• Identifies, prioritizes and manages to resolution business process improvements.
• Provides leadership and consultation for direct reports through the sharing of best practice techniques and mentoring.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Expert knowledge in Finance and/or Accounting and high level understanding and experience with retail math and retail financial drivers.
• Thinks strategically, synthesizes the most complex data and develops creative and innovative solutions within an entrepreneurial environment.
• Detail-oriented and manages multiple priorities to accomplish assignments simultaneously under tight timelines.
• Presents information and interacts at the highest level of professionalism with senior executives, stakeholders, cross functional business leaders, peers, clients, and customers.
• Promotes a team-first environment, where everyone can openly contribute, and ensures appropriate work/life balance for team members.
• Coaches, manages, aligns, motivates and develops direct reports.
• High level skills in Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint (or other reporting software).
• Passion for orchestrating from behind the scenes and influencing relationships indirectly.
Qualifications
1. University degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
2. MBA and/or CPA preferred
3. 10+ years of broad based operational finance experience with progressive responsibility
4. Minimum of five years successfully leading, managing and developing a team
5. Industry-specific experience preferred
6. Solid accounting skills and experience
7. Advanced Excel skills required
8. Familiarity with SAP and other relevant adidas and industry Finance systems/analytical software a major plus