About the role
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This role leads budgeting , forecasting and consolidation for the adidas Retail and Franchise channels across SEA, ensuring planning and reporting timelines are consistent with globally defined processes. It also drives cost efficiency, a consistent reporting environment and channel profitability across retail and franchise, giving finance and business leaders relevant insights , analysis, and trade-off options to support their decisions.
Key Responsibilities :
- Partner with commercial teams to drive Retail and Franchise growth, including setting and monitoring the topline roadmap.
- Manage the Business Plan Model (BPM) process and rollout plans for Retail and Franchise, shaping the channel portfolio in each market.
- Drive the annual budget and manage monthly (scorecard, monthly update) and ad-hoc forecasting in close collaboration with commercial and marketing finance.
- Manage budget, forecast and actuals tracking, reporting and reconciliation for Retail and Franchise, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities against targets.
- Oversee monthly results analysis and consolidation in collaboration with the FD.
- Lead the preparation and presentation of insightful Retail and Franchise financial and operating reporting for senior leadership.
- Lead cost efficiency, profitability, and process improvement initiatives, defining ownership and monitoring progress.
Authorities:
- Planning and reporting milestones and deadlines
- Target setting proposals
- Governance over policies and authority levels
Key Relationships:
The main stakeholders/customers to be dealt with:
- FD, Finance and Market Finance Teams SEA and Market Retail & Franchise teams Market Commercial teams Market Marketing teams Group Retail, and Finance
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
- Excellent analytical, written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and respond confidently to senior executives and cross-functional leaders
- Structured problem-solving: define issues, analyse data, draw sound conclusions, and implement effective action plans
- Strategic thinker able to synthesise complex data and develop innovative solutions in an entrepreneurial environment
- Experience in scenario planning and investment case analysis
- Collaborative partner to the senior Finance leadership team at market and global level
- Ability to coach, motivate and develop direct reports
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Advanced degree or professional qualification in Finance, Economics or Accounting (e.g. MBA, CPA)
- 8–10 years of broad operational finance experience with progressive responsibility in industry-leading companies
- Solid accounting knowledge and advanced Excel skills
- Familiarity with SAP, BI, AI applications and Microsoft suite
