Overview
Financial Analyst F, P&A Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at adidas
Title: Financial Analyst F, P&A
Company: adidas
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization
The Financial Analyst (FP&A) to provide support with financial planning, analysis, reporting, and data input in compliance to adidas Group finance policies and guidance. This requires a good understanding of the business, accurate and timely reporting as well as in-depth analysis combined with competent and professional business partnering. Good comprehension of a complex business model and working with multiple currencies & legal structures.
Key Responsibilities
Support the F, P&A team with accurate, timely and in-depth monthly and ad hoc reporting and analysis.
Data input for planning processes (forecast, budget, IBP, SBP) and support the monthly financial closing in line with adidas Group standards/policies.
Monthly review, in-depth analysis and controlling of key P&L items to ensure accurate reporting.
Proactively identify key process and system issues by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.
Strong collaboration with F, P&A and local finance team to support strict global and local deadlines.
Preparation of monthly local financial results and business update presentations.
KPI’s
Timely submission of routine Financial and Management Reports
Accuracy of actual reporting and forecasts validation
Validation of budget inputs based on actual and forecast reporting
Meet reporting deadlines
Key Relationships
Local F, P& A Team
Local Finance Team
Hub F, P & A Team
Commercial departments (Sales, Retail, Marketing)
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Excellent attention to detail
Business understanding of processes and structure.
Strong Analytical skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and good financial statement analysis ability.
Multi-tasking with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
Desire to work collaboratively with teams across the business
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
Pro-active and results orientated.
Ability to accept and meet deadlines.
Ability to work in consistently changing environment.
Good analytics by 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 with solid commercial experience.
Experience in financial reporting and analysis.
Advanced Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint).
SAP & BI experience is an advantage.
2-4 years of experience in the same or similar field.
Solid accounting skills and experience.
Industry experience: ideally in retail/apparel/fashion/consumer goods.
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.
