Next Gen

at  Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
adidas GBS delivers high quality services for Finance. Joining our GBS organization will allow the Next Gen to learn from the operation and explore his/her full potential to add value to the Stream in his/her day to day activities.
In the Next GEN program, you will be able to support and learn from different areas of the organization like Accounts Payable, Record to Report, Order to Cash and Purchase to Invoice. You will be supporting 2 of these areas for the duration of 10 months approximately, while getting to know the business and prepare for your future in the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Depending on which area are you supporting, you will be able to perform different tasks.

In Accounts Payable you will support activities like:

• Resolve discrepancies with vendors and internal departments as needed.
• Assist in generating reports related to accounts payable activities (e.g. Debit balance, good receipts, and unposted invoices).
• Support local vendor reconciliation and follow-up on open items.
• Consolidate Regional vendor statement of accounts.

In Record to Report you will be responsible for:

• Support foreign payments.
• Bank items reconciliation.
• Analysis of conciliatory items.
• Development of templates and formats in Excel.

In Order to Cash we count on you to:

• Support timely collection by following up on overdue documents such as cash on account, credit memos, unapplied payments, unidentified claims, invoice short payments, and denied claims and rejected payments with the credit team and the claims team.
• Escalate internal issues.
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation.
• Support ongoing projects for the implementation of technology solutions.
• Support with the reconciliation of accounts.

In Purchase to Invoice you will learn how to:

• Research and obtain the support documentation to research a shortage and full invoice claim.
• Create folders per customer and case with the required support documentation to start the research process.
• Download Invoices from our document management systems.
• Gather information such as materials, prices, shipping dates, carriers, etc.
• Verify price changes per material, invoice, and PO, to support Pricing deductions research.
• Interact in the customer portal to extract manual information needed to perform deductions research.
• Create call tags for the Returns authorizations issued in the billing and returns department.
• Support the issue of credits and debits memos, as the offsetting process.
• Run daily reports for tracking indicators.

You will get to know and work closely with:

• Other GBS departments.
• Local accounting teams.
• Internal Controls.
• Suppliers & Vendors.

What are we looking for in our candidates?

• Attitude, we are looking for someone who has a growth mindset who wants to learn and who faces every challenge with courage.
• Basic accounting or finance knowledge.
• Basic Excel skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical abilities.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.

• Support foreign payments.
• Bank items reconciliation.
• Analysis of conciliatory items.
• Development of templates and formats in Excel