Manager Corporate Treasury - Financial Operations & Treasury IT Systems (m/f/d)

Location

Herzogenaurach | Germany

Job description

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy. From design to production to logistics to technology to finance, every role in all our brands is connected to this. Our roles span the range of our brands, as well as spanning the globe. No matter what you do, or what country or city you do it in, your work helps make greatness possible. Being part of the adidas Group means part of some of the most recognizable sporting brands in the world – adidas, Reebok and Taylor Made.

As part of Finance, Group Treasury has 16 employees. The purpose of Group Treasury is to manage the company’s liquidity, solvency and financial market risks. Global Treasury processes are categorized in four major pillars:

Financial Risk Management, Corporate Finance, Financial Operations and Middle Office. Group Treasury´s Financial Risk Management manages the Group’s (financial) market risks, including foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity exposures. Group Treasury’s Corporate Finance team manages strategic liquidity for the Group to ensure that sufficient funds are available to operate the business on a global basis. Financial Operations team is responsible for daily global cash management, global In-House-Bank management, global standardized payment processes, external bank account management and Treasury system applications. The Middle Office acts as an intermediary between Group Treasury’s Front Office on one side, and Group Accounting / FSS as well as the Group’s Auditors on the other side.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the key contact person for all treasury system applications
• Manage all IT applications in alignment with group’s compliance requirements for SAP In-House-Bank (IHC), SAP Bank Communication Manager, SAP Cash Management, SAP Liquidity Analyser, Grape BI system for treasury related applications (like SAP Liquidity Planner and Exposure), Bank Account Manager (BAM), Treasury Management System (TMS), interfaces to market and trade platforms (Bloomberg, 360T, Misys, DTCC) in cooperation with Global IT
• Manage direct IT interfaces for treasury applications
• Ensure straight-through processing and full integration between all treasury applications
• Ensure smooth operation of the day to day business by setting up/ maintaining / update all treasury applications
• Cooperate with treasury colleagues in jointly managing SAP Cash Management, SAP In House Bank, SAP Bank Communication Manager and TMS in partnership with the business
• Coordinate Inhouse-Bank processes with all transactions incl. system support
• Lead medium sized system projects and the Continuous Improvement Initiative (CII) in Treasury: analysis, design, evaluation, coordination (Request For Changes), blueprint, business change management, realization, Go Live, continuous improvement and ensure sustainability of achievements for treasury applications / processes by GIT standards
• Provide comprehensive technical and business expertise for treasury and SAP processes to support business partners
• Enhance and create new working methods for treasury processes and treasury systems, i.e. cash management, payment processes, treasury reporting, exposure forecast
• Drive Treasury Data Management
• Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and recommendations to facilitate related decisions
• Provide information about new processes or operational plans and deliver impact on group treasury environment, i.e. Segregation Of Duties
• Design, develop and implement adequate KPI’s and analytic tools to present results, recommendations and solutions
• Work collaboratively in an international team environment
• Actively keep up to date with latest system / application trends for Treasury

Authorities:

• Engage third party service and system providers
• Coordinate other departments and group companies
• Plan, seek and engage project resources
• Control Treasury system access
• Update Treasury a-live website

Key Relationships:

Key Internal Stakeholders:

• Group Treasury
• Project Sponsors
• Financial Shared Service Centers
• Corporate Solutions
• Global IT and AFS team
• Internal Auditors
• Accounting/Controlling

Key External Stakeholders:

• Financial Institutions
• Treasury system and service providers
• External Auditors

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

•Comprehensive business and IT understanding of processes and structure

• Knowledge of accounting topics related to treasury activities
• High degree of service and customer orientation
• Broad SAP experience including SAP treasury in terms of usage and processes
• Be team player
• Understand business requirements in technical processes
• Ability to coordinate, drive and perform changes/ CII / upgrades / maintenance of treasury systems
• Ability to operate cross-functionally
• Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dependences within IT applications
• Experience in Project Management
• Good verbal and written communication, including presentation skills
• Work closely together with Global IT and external vendors
• Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration/Finance / business informatics/ business oriented information technology
• 3-8 year experience in Treasury / Accounting / Banking / IT / SAP, ideally SAP AFS
• Comprehensive expertise for treasury relevant systems
• Fluent in English spoken and written, German as a plus
• Relevant project management experience
• Willing to train and be trained on above topics

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