Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis, MENA, would provide support to the MENA team in, planning, analysis and reporting across all areas of the P&L for the MENA business, ensuring quality and integrity of the financials.
Key Responsibilities:
The role assures the purposeful, controlled and efficient use of financial resources by transparent analysis and reporting to proactively support business decision making processes and ensuring effective internal controls.
Provide support to commercial FP&A MENA teams where needed.
Support monthly forecasting process and budget submissions.
Support the monthly closing along with adidas Group standards/policies.
Support business Senior Management with correct, timely and in-depth standard reporting or selective ad hoc analysis.
Support in development and implementation of standardized business controlling processes & tools with ongoing drive for improvements & simplifications.
Act as a trusted consultant by closely partnering up with Business Controlling in order to translate business requirements into executable and efficient processes & tools.
Identify key issues and system bugs proactively by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information. Provide creative recommendations and solutions.
Support financial initiatives and act as a contact point for business partners to translate financial KPI’s into targets within the business.
Provide expertise and ongoing financial information to business partners to assist in making business decisions to achieve growth, profitability and targets.
Support small sized projects and/or actively participate in project.
Implement adequate and aligned communication packages to present results, recommendations and solutions.
Keep up to date with trends in field of expertise.
Assume back up roles to cover colleagues for in advance assigned tasks.
KPI’s:
On time submission of monthly management reports (update & analysis)
Accuracy of actual reporting and forecasts validation
Feedback from key business partners
Key Relationships:
Accounting Team MENA
Demand Planning Team MENA
FP&A team EM
Senior Managers FP&A team MENA
All internal functions MENA
Senior Management Team MENA
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Business understanding of processes, structure, creation and monitoring of adequate and effective reporting, as well as in-depth analyses combined with competent and professional business partnering.
Analytical and financial modeling skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and good financial statement analysis ability.
Independent handling of a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
Result orientation and pro-activity.
High degree of customer orientation.
Ability to accept and meet deadlines.
Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment.
Good analytics and presentation skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources (SAP, Excel, BI).
Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
University degree in business administration with focus on Finance/Controlling.
Experience in financial planning and analysis.
Advanced System expertise in Microsoft office (Excel, Powerpoint).
SAP experience is an advantage.
1-3 years of experience in the same or similar field.
Solid accounting skills and experience
