Senior Manager Finance, Marketing Expense

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adidas Senior Manager Finance, Marketing Expense invites an accomplished finance leader to drive budgeting, forecasting, and expense control for the Marketing Organization, ensure integrity and transparency of performance against plan, and provide financial decision support for strategic and tactical decisions. The ideal candidate has 8 to 10 years in financial planning or analysis, deep knowledge of marketing math and drivers, advanced Excel, and SAP familiarity, with a proven ability to present to senior executives. You will lead cross functional planning and ROI analyses for NAM media investments, partner with Marketing and external vendors, and mentor analysts while guiding monthly and quarterly closes. To apply, tailor your resume to show measurable cost controls and ROI outcomes, highlight cross functional impact, and confirm Portland based work with adidas hybrid policy and Friday in-office requirements.

Purpose:

Leads development of financial plans, targets, budgets, forecasts, and expense controlling for the Marketing Organization.  Ensures integrity and transparency of performance measurement against plan to assure financial targets are achieved.  Provides financial decision support for strategic and tactical decisions. Identifies and drives process improvement opportunities.   

Key Accountabilities:

• Leads team in planning, budgeting, forecasting and controlling Marketing Expense
• Drives cross functional alignment on targeting, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analysis.
• Leads ROI Analysis to inform and support profitable marketing investments.
• Lead financial planning and controlling efforts across all NAM media investments, partnering with Marketing and our external media vendor(s)
• Collaborates with Marketing Directors on strategic projects to address business risks and opportunities and to influence the outcome.
• Ensures financial but also non-financial managers are provided top notch and highly accurate information and analysis for their business decisions.
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly and ad Hoc Analysis. 
• Independently analyzes proposed business risks and opportunities to determine impact on financial results, including post mortems on outcomes.
• Provides guidance on financial plans, targets, strategies, that focus on achieving desired financial business objectives.
• Drives creative solutions to minimize business risks and maximize business opportunities.
• Provides leadership and consultation for analysts through sharing of best practice techniques and mentoring.
• Plays key role in helping to lead the finance team through annual / quarterly / monthly cycles such as annual budgeting, monthly/quarterly close, standard reporting, and consolidation

Key Interfaces ( Relationships with other depts/groups) : Finance Director and Manager-Marketing, Marketing, local and global Finance counterparts

   Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent knowledge in Finance and/or Accounting and high-level understanding and experience with marketing math and marketing financial drivers.
• Ability to think strategically, synthesize complex data and develop creative and innovative solutions within an entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to present information and interact effectively with senior executives, stakeholders, cross- functional business leaders, peers, clients, and customers.
• Ability to be detail oriented and manage multiple priorities to accomplish assignments simultaneously under tight timelines.  
• Promote a team first environment where everyone can openly contribute and ensure appropriate work/life balance for team members.
• Proven ability to operate cross functionally and develop creative and innovative solutions within an entrepreneurial environment.
• Advanced skills in Excel.  Strongly proficient skills in Word, PowerPoint, and Copilot
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. 
  

Qualifications (Minimum required education and experience):

• University degree in Finance, Accounting or Business 
• 8-10 years’ experience in business or financial analysis or planning
• Industry specific experience preferred
• Solid accounting skills and experience preferred
• Advanced Excel skills required
• Familiarity with SAP and other relevant adidas and industry Finance systems/analytical software a major plus

adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave. 
Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.  

The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.

Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English 

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.