Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
The Senior Business Analyst Training acts as a financial consultant and business partner to the Directors in BUG Training and their respective Marketing teams by giving recommendations to enable fact-based decision making. The Senior Business Analyst supports the business to achieve the financial targets through strategic and operational analysis and creating transparency about business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
* Partner with the VP Athletics, Training, Stella and support the Senior Director Finance adidas brand in strategic planning and translating SBP targets in seasonal and sub-category targets
* Enable fact-based decision-making by creating transparency on all KPIs (Net Sales, volume, margin, range size) via regular reporting as well as ad-hoc analysis and strategic business plans
* Proactively manage medium sized projects and/or actively participate in larger projects; implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements
* Develop and implement adequate and aligned communication packages to present results, recommendations and solutions.
* Develop and implement state of the art analytical tools regarding range efficiency, drop rounds, workload indicators, margin calculation, market overlap etc. Significantly enhance and improve working methods for day-to-day processes and systems (including Coding Structure)
* Provide input into new processes or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department targets.
* Work towards the achievement of department targets
* Identify improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions.
* Manage and execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis
* Provide expertise for BUG Training teams and act as an interface between different functions (Marketing, Design, Development, Marketing Operations, GTM-Teams etc.)
* Budget, forecast and manage cost centers and support managers in all financial tasks (e.g. investment and recruiting requests, cost charges etc.)
* Ensure smooth operation of the day to day business by taking on ownership for related actions.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Deep Business understanding of processes and structure
* High degree of customer orientation
* Ability to maneuver in consistently changing environment
* Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
* Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
* Experience in Project Management
* Very Good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others
* Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
* Very Good analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
* University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling
* Strong Competence with MS office, excellent Excel, SAP, cognos
* 3-5 years working experience in Finance department