Exciting times at adidas! As we continue to grow, we’re building a pool of talented professionals for future opportunities in Accounting. By applying, you’ll join our talent pipeline, and we’ll reach out when a role that matches your profile becomes available. We look forward to connect with you! Key Responsibilities: - Perform month-end-closing, corrections and in-depth analysis to ensure the accuracy in the financial statement (e.g. accruals and provisions, settlement files, etc.). - Responsible for a team of specialists accountants to achieve the goals. - Ensure correct revaluation of the balance sheet accounts of all companies within area of responsibility. - Monitoring of systems interfaces, review and explain variations in the different IT systems (e.g. SAP, OMNI, etc). - Manage the review of general ledger account reconciliations within area of responsibility and analysis as part of the monthly close, investigate and resolve discrepancies. - Prepare/update documentation of accounting and reporting procedures within area of responsibility. - Identify, implement, and/or support process improvements and harmonization with a focus on continuous improvement. - Advise and support local, regional, and global projects, as required; provide financial expertise in such projects. - Ensure accurate and timely regular reporting (monthly, quarterly, annual), including internal and external audits. - Maintains financial security by adhering to internal controls. - Manage, train and develops associates for the job and broader responsibilities within the company. Knowledge Skills and Abilities: - Understanding of complex accounting matters, quick problem-solving skills and strong collaboration with other finance and non-finance teams. - Adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team. - Ability to mediate and bring different stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus and drive decision making - Deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable. - Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated. High integrity, ethics, and strong values; excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation, and a high degree of accuracy are all essential. - Good problem-solving skills; strong decision-making skills; innovative use of IT tools and new technology; and good time management and priority setting skills required. - Must have strong accounting skills. Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: - 5+ years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance. - Fluency in written & spoken English. - Advanced in Excel/Word/PowerPoint. - SAP experience preferred - years of leadership experience Required Skill Profession Financial Clerks