Job Description

Key Responsibilities:Commercial Finance responsibilities

• Support Director Commercial SEAPAC in financial analysis to accelerate Golf category growth within SEA countries.
• Partner country Commercial teams to drive actions to achieve sales forecast, review marketing investments, including challenge financial plans and supporting the buy process.
• Work with Director Commercial SEAPAC and countries on commercial analysis in a practical and timely manner to support decision making.
• Provide management reporting to country commercial teams, including NS tracking, P&L performance, IBP and inventory.
• Liaise with DP on IBP for divisional planning for Golf category to drive margin improvement.
• Act as a liaison with APAC regional team in Japan on business performance.
• Support FP&A Director in delivering SEA performance through balance between adidas sports and golf.

FP&A responsibilities

• Full responsibility for all Golf P&L reporting, through collaboration with cross functional stakeholders to build a credible and reasonable forecast.
• Responsible for preparation and consolidation of regular FP&A reporting ensuring accuracy and submission in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with SEAPAC country and Cluster FP&A on all FP&A reporting deliverables and market planning.
• Perform analysis on forecast and actuals to provide insights on FP&A reporting deliverables.
• Work with local accounting teams to ensure proper accruals and actuals reporting.
• Support FP&A Director in ad-hoc analysis per business need and aligning Golf and adidas sports ways of working.

Operations, Demand planning & inventory tracking responsibilities

• Collaborate with Demand Planning and country Commercial teams on shipments to achieve forecast.
• Partner SEA Demand Planning and GBS on Golf inventory actuals and forecast.
• Responsible for inventory management. Support Director, Commercial SEAPAC to drive actions on excess inventory (if any) and logistics teams to ensure sufficient warehouse capacity.
• Ensure markdowns aligned with Commercial teams is maintained on a timely basis by Customer Service teams.

Key Relationships:

• FP&A Director, SEA
• Director, Commercial, SEAPAC
• Cross functional commercial teams: Golf and adidas, SEAPAC and Golf APAC/Global
• FP&A peers in SEAPAC and APAC/Global
• GBS

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities:

• Strong commercial and business acumen with prior omnichannel experience.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills with capability to leverage data to unlock insights.
• Great written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders across Global, Regional, countries and cross functions.
• Has high attention to detail and accuracy while working with strict reporting deadlines.
• Excellent organizational skills, good time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize different requests.
• Solid and sound knowledge of accounting and financial principles.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Prior experience with SAP, PowerBI and MicroStrategy is a plus.

Requisite Education and Experience

• University degree or above.
• Member of an internationally recognized professional accounting body preferred.
• At least 10 years of broad-based finance experience with progressive responsibility in industry leading companies (Retail/FMCG).

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