Senior Manager Sales Finance - temp. until June 2026 (m/f/d)

at  Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Global Sales Finance Team exists to provide commercial financial insights, connecting Global Sales and Finance, Markets and HQ to enable financially sound decision making. Within this team, the Senior Manager for Reporting & Analytics is the key player in driving excellence in reporting and analytics across all channels and horizontal teams. The profile of the role is a hybrid between D&A and commercial finance.

Key responsibilities:

• Innovate processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by pro-actively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies
• Develop tactical and strategic reporting & analytics for Leadership to support decision making
• Drive maintenance and improvement of existing reports and dashboards
• Work with D&A team to continuously improve data quality and availability
• Act as a change agent and accelerator for innovative tools, technologies, and methods within sales finance community
• Provide training/upskilling to the sales finance community (organizing workshops, identifying & sharing relevant learning opportunities, etc)
• Provide expertise, ad-hoc support and guidance to the sales finance community on statistics, analytics and visualization tools (SQL, Power BI)

Key Relationships:

• Global Sales Finance
• Global Sales
• Market Finance teams
• Global D&A team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong will to innovate ways of working combined with the proven execution ability; problem solving skills and solution orientated
• Proven creativity and curiosity to identify and solve a wide range of Function/Business challenges
• Strong analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Strong understanding of financial processes (forecasting, month close, reporting procedures); comfortable with Finance principles, financial modeling and financial statement/gap analysis
• Good project management skills, including the ability to work in several projects simultaneously
• Proven team player who can collaborate across functions and organizations
• In depth understanding of market business model / system landscape and experience across relevant data domains (B2B, B2C, Brand, etc.) is a big plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree (Bachelor, Master, MBA) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Digital or a data-driven related field
• 5-10 years of operational finance experience within fashion or brand-driven environment or 5+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical role

• Hands-on experience with statistics or analytics tools (frontend and database technologies, SQL, Power BI, R/Python, Alteryx, or similar)Advanced experience with reporting and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI)

• Innovate processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by pro-actively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies
• Develop tactical and strategic reporting & analytics for Leadership to support decision making
• Drive maintenance and improvement of existing reports and dashboards
• Work with D&A team to continuously improve data quality and availability
• Act as a change agent and accelerator for innovative tools, technologies, and methods within sales finance community
• Provide training/upskilling to the sales finance community (organizing workshops, identifying & sharing relevant learning opportunities, etc)
• Provide expertise, ad-hoc support and guidance to the sales finance community on statistics, analytics and visualization tools (SQL, Power BI