Purpose of the Role:
This is an important finance role for an organized, analytical, and growth-oriented finance professional who understands how to create value for our shareholders. The position supports sustainable top-line growth across all product categories and customers by delivering financial insights, support planning processes, and helping optimize profitability while ensuring a consumer-centric approach to decision making.
What you will do:
- Support Commercial and FP&A activities for the Wholesale channel, helping to deliver profitable results for the Zone across Net Sales, Gross Margin and key profitability metrics.
- Coordinate the Integrated Business Plan Process (IBP) by category for the Wholesale channel, ensuring alignment between Sales and Go-to Market Teams.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPI) for product categories and customers supporting both short and long-term planning processes.
- Monitor business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support corrective actions to deliver financial targets.
- Improve visibility of business performance through robust financial analysis and reporting.
- Act as a finance business partner to Sales and Marketing teams, by providing financial insights and recommendations to support business growth.
- Challenge assumptions and provide data-driven recommendations to improve profitability and decision making.
- Prepare accurate and timely financial and business performance reports, including insightful ad-hoc analysis.
- Support continuous improvements in financial planning, reporting processes and analytical tools.
- Help ensure that financial plans and decisions support the overall marketplace and consumer strategy.
- Collaborate closely with Europe and South to identify and support growth opportunities within the Iberia Marketplace.
- Contribute to cross-functional projects and business initiatives as needed.
- Support a collaborative, high-performing, and business-focused FP&A team.
Skills you will need:
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills, with solid understanding of Finance and Accounting principles.
- Good knowledge of commercial finance concepts, including customer and product profitability analysis.
- Strong business understanding with a customer and consumer-oriented mindset.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.
- Well-organized, proactive and able to work independently.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Ability to work effectively in a complex and international organization.
- Team Player with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field. Professional qualifications (e.g., MBA, CPA…) are a plus.
- Familiarity with SAP AFS or S/4, Power BI, Fiori Apps, and other relevant finance systems and analytical tools is a strong advantage.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Business Finance or related finance roles.
- Language skills: Strong English & Spanish communication skills, both written and spoken.
Life at adidas:
- Competitive compensation
- Annual bonus
- Private Life & health insurance
- Pension plan
- Hybrid working model
- Monthly meal vouchers
- Free access to learning platform
- Employee Assistance Program (personal counselling on variety of topics)
- Employee discount on adidas products.
- Work - life balance & encouraging towards wellbeing environment
adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.