Strategic Finance Leader

2 weeks ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India adidas Full time

Join the adidas Finance team as a Senior Manager in Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis. This role plays a key player in improving, streamlining, and innovating processes, procedures, tools in the finance organization by exploring and leveraging Business Intelligence Tools, Advanced Analytics, and other technologies.

The position supports Digital Finance transformation and change to a modern reporting mindset within FP&A. As part of the India Hub team, you will provide information for financial decision-making through accurate and action-oriented reporting and business analysis. The team also partners with the rest of Finance to increase accuracy in planning activities like forecasting and budgeting.

You will support building, managing, and coordinating the India Corporate Controlling / Future Capability Hub. Collaboration with the rest of Finance is required for conducting technical setup and tool portfolio for supporting budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and cost monitoring processes. As a single point of contact (SPOC), you will drive steering the business to achieve financial targets and strategic goals.

This role involves supervision of a team executing BI programs across the team in response to business needs. Teams perform detailed data analysis, implement dashboards, and ensure decision support systems are in place that best serve the business in their decision-making while adhering to standards, policy, and legislation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadership
  • Build and lead an efficient and high-performing team with a strong quality, innovation, and service mindset.
  • Develop functional, technical, and social skills within the team and drive continuous learning and individual growth.
  • Develop and continuously improve training, onboarding, and documentation processes for long-term knowledge retention.
  • Create positive team spirit and a highly engaging environment to enable team members to perform and keep attrition low.
  • Ensure smooth operation of the business by taking ownership for related actions.
  • Drive automation/standardization of processes, procedures, and ways of working across the assigned area of responsibility and cross-functionally by analyzing deliverables and initiating both continuous improvement and/or change initiatives.
  • Reporting
  • Design, manage, and execute highly accurate, insightful, and visually appealing reporting solutions and ad hoc analysis.
  • Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations, and solutions.
  • Innovation/Future Capability
  • Innovate Financial Planning and Analysis/Reporting processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by proactively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies.
  • Analyze existing processes and implement technological improvements to drive efficiency in working procedures across relevant teams.
  • Improve storytelling through data visualization/dashboards specific to the needs of various stakeholders, including senior executives, Finance professionals, cross-functional business leaders/teams, etc.
  • Ensure end-to-end automation process between Business Intelligence Frontend (Power-BI) and Backend (Lakehouse-Databricks) for ease of Visualization/Dashboard creation.
  • Others
  • Lead small and medium-sized projects, implement findings, and ensure sustainability of achievements.
  • Drive/Track Reporting, Dashboarding, and Tool implementations from Project Management perspective.
  • Provide comprehensive expertise for assigned functional areas/systems and processes towards the Internal HQ Corporate Controlling team.

Key Relationships:

  • Finance Teams in assigned area of responsibility.
  • GBS Finance team/GBS Innovation Team.
  • adidas Finance Team.
  • Business transformation team (TRANS4RM project).
  • Global Data & Analytics Team (DNA).
  • Accounting, Taxes, Treasury.
  • HR.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

  • Awareness of the power of analytics and technological development, combined with a strong willingness to innovate ways of working and proven execution ability & stamina to effect lasting change. Experience in Digital Finance transformation is a strong plus.
  • Excellent BI Frontend/Reporting/Dashboarding capabilities: Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analysis for Office (Power-BI Architect Level).
  • Comprehensive understanding of Finance and Accounting principles, processes & structures.
  • Technical expertise: thorough understanding of relational databases/DW/BW (SAP, Databricks) as well as Microsoft VBA/SQL/automation tools.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to maneuver in consistently changing environments.
  • Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
  • Excellent knowledge of Python, R or other statistical computing languages/tools and a working knowledge of the same.
  • Comprehensive financial statement analysis capability paired with a well-developed business acumen and multiple years of hands-on experience in commercial finance in an operational Finance environment.
  • Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop mid-size teams.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources.
  • Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions, and dynamics within an international company.
  • Proven track record in successful teamwork being part of global, multinational projects.
  • High degree of customer orientation.
  • Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines.
  • Ability to read, write, and communicate in English in a business setting.

Requisite Education and Experience/Minimum Qualifications:

  • University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/Controlling or similar.
  • University degree in Information Technology.
  • Leadership experience.
  • 8-10 plus years relevant work experience as CPA or equivalent with at least 6+ years relevant work experience in Information Technology/as a Power-BI Developer/Architect or equivalent.
  • Broad and deep understanding of job function.
  • Experience in a Shared Service environment.
  • Lean training certification.

Salary: Estimated salary range is $120,000 - $180,000 per year based on location and industry standards.

Location: This role is open to candidates based in Europe, specifically in countries where adidas operates.

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