Senior Manager - TECH Finance (m/f/d)

at  Adidas

Herzogenaurach, Bayern, Germany -

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Immediate25 Dec, 2024Not Specified29 Sep, 20246 year(s) or aboveBusiness Understanding,Communication Skills,English,Finance,Analytical Skills,SynthesisNoNo
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Description:

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The general purpose the TECH Finance is to be a financial consultant to the TECH Senior Management by giving recommendations to enable and drive fact-based decision-making. The Finance Functions support and steer the business to achieve financial targets as well as the strategy based on the analysis of number indicators. This is supported by the creation of transparency about business performance through cost & business analysis and performance management.
TECH Finance is responsible for financial controlling and cost management and provides tailored key performance indicators for their business partners. We enable fact-based decision making, best practice sharing and continuous process improvement by creating transparency on impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers. We derive corresponding solution through application of state of the art analytical tools and business expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with assigned business functions and the respective Sr. Management.
  • Enable fact based decision making by creating transparency on all cost levels (OPEX, CAPEX) through budgeting, forecasting, and the creation of business cases.
  • Manage cost objects and support cost object owners in all financial tasks:
  • Creation and changes of primary data
  • Cost planning and booking according to accounting rules
  • Investment planning and booking according to accounting rules
  • Internal resources planning and recruitment requests
  • Cost rebooking and recharging
  • Provide supporting information for tax compliance
  • Perform month-end OPEX and CAPEX closing in collaboration with accounting team, ensuring compliance with accounting policy and IFRS standards
  • Manage Tech intangible assets to ensure correct Net Book Value and monthly Amortization run
  • Support the creation of business cases for planned investment in the assigned area of responsibility, challenging underlying assumptions, ensuring standard format approaches are followed, and drive/own the integrity of financial information.
  • Perform “postmortems” analysis on executed business cases to determine business case quality and related lessons learned, including effectively passing that feedback through to the creators of the cases.
  • Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions.
  • Design, develop and implement state-of-the-art analytic tools
  • Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on targets, e.g. global definitions of cost (align market feedback with corporate accounting team in charge of policy)
  • Significantly contribute to the achievement of overall HQ Finance and Value Creation Management strategy
  • Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions.
  • Manage & execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis
  • Create new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems
  • Lead medium- large sized projects in finance area, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements
  • Ensure, constantly improve and foster smooth operation of the day today business, systems and working methods by taking on full ownership for related actions.

Key Relationships:

  • Global TECH teams and CIO Office
  • HQ Finance and Value Creation Management
  • Corporate Controlling Teams (e.g. Corporate FP&A, Sales Finance, Market Finance)
  • GOPS Finance
  • CP&PM

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with assigned business functions and the respective Sr. Management.
  • Enable fact based decision making by creating transparency on all cost levels (OPEX, CAPEX) through budgeting, forecasting, and the creation of business cases.
  • Manage cost objects and support cost object owners in all financial tasks:
  • Creation and changes of primary data
  • Cost planning and booking according to accounting rules
  • Investment planning and booking according to accounting rules
  • Internal resources planning and recruitment requests
  • Cost rebooking and recharging
  • Provide supporting information for tax compliance
  • Perform month-end OPEX and CAPEX closing in collaboration with accounting team, ensuring compliance with accounting policy and IFRS standards
  • Manage Tech intangible assets to ensure correct Net Book Value and monthly Amortization run
  • Support the creation of business cases for planned investment in the assigned area of responsibility, challenging underlying assumptions, ensuring standard format approaches are followed, and drive/own the integrity of financial information.
  • Perform “postmortems” analysis on executed business cases to determine business case quality and related lessons learned, including effectively passing that feedback through to the creators of the cases.
  • Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions.
  • Design, develop and implement state-of-the-art analytic tools
  • Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on targets, e.g. global definitions of cost (align market feedback with corporate accounting team in charge of policy)
  • Significantly contribute to the achievement of overall HQ Finance and Value Creation Management strategy
  • Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions.
  • Manage & execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis
  • Create new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems
  • Lead medium- large sized projects in finance area, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements
  • Ensure, constantly improve and foster smooth operation of the day today business, systems and working methods by taking on full ownership for related actions


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:6.0Max:8.0 year(s)

Financial Services

Accounts / Finance / Tax / CS / Audit

Finance

Graduate

Proficient

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Herzogenaurach, Germany