Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation: Global Business Services (GBS) aims to provide globally unified services based on standardized and automated solutions across different functions and markets. This will enable us to drive operational efficiency, quality services, improved agility and better decision-making whilst reducing complexity and workload.It delivers high quality services in the areas of Order to Cash (O2C), Source To Pay (S2P), Record to Report (R2R), Planning & Reporting and Hire to Retire for adidas companies and subsidiaries located in Europe, North America and Latin America. Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Planning and Reporting team supports the business by providing information that will enable the financial decisions, by promoting transparency in the actuals reporting and increasing the accuracy in the Planning activities, such as forecast and budgeting. Key Responsibilities: Execute budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes ensuring data quality and integrity across various systems and tools Support the supervisor to partner with the business within the assigned area of responsibility Engage the creation of transparency on budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes and contribute for the integrity of those activities Ensure data mechanization and daily/ monthly maintenance of the information in the reporting / budget systems Ensure smooth operation of day to day business by taking on ownership for related actions Look continuously for improvement of daily tasks to optimize controlling, FP&A and overall finance execution and allow improved sharing of key financial information Execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis Manage cost centers and support cost center managers in all financial tasks (e.g. investment and recruitment requests, cost recharges, etc.) Manage / support small sized projects; support the implementation of findings and sustainability of achievements Key Relationships: GBS Controlling Team and Finance teams adidas Finance Team adidas senior management team adidas Market Controllers Accounting HR Knowledge, Skills and Abilities : Strong financial acumen System expertise: Very good MS office skills (especially Excel), SAP S/4 Hana, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) and Power BI Experience of Central Finance (CFIN) implementation Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation Good Problem solving and analytical skills Proven track record in successful team work being part of global, multinational projects. Multi-cultural awareness, open minded to working in diverse business environments. Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines. Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: • University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/ Controlling or similar • 7 plus years relevant work experience as CPA or equivalent • Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function • Experience in a Shared Service environment • CPA certified • Lean trainingSalary: . Date posted: 03/28/2024 08:10 PM

Program Manager ACES, OPTIMA

Amazon, Chennai, Tennessee

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience- 3+ years of program or project management experience- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience- Bachelor's degree- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvementsDESCRIPTIONThe OPTIMA team is seeking a Program Manager to establish the ACES Team and drive cross-functional wide projects and innovate new processes at scale. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the shopping experience for customers worldwide.We at OPTIMA enable Amazon to deliver a superior shopping experience to customers worldwide. Our mission is to empower Amazon's LLMs through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) across various categories at high speed. We aspire to provide an end-to-end data solution for the LLM lifecycle, leveraging cutting-edge technology alongside our operational excellence. We enable shopping feature teams deliver superior CX quality by providing them reliable and comprehensive insights and ground truth data to measure and train ML (Machine Learning) models and handle annotation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) across 10 different languagesKey job responsibilitiesThe ACES PM will help drive improvements in our operations team which operates in emerging technology space like AI/ML/LLM and plays a key role in improving Amazon customer experience (CX) worldwide. The role is expected to coach the Operations team to drive efficiency, speed, scale and quality in the processes and also expected to work with stakeholders at levels. If you are customer obsessed, passionate about data and operations excellence, keen to learn, agile, have ability to influence leadership teams and like working with partner teams across time zones then this role is for you. • Drive Process, Tools and Policy Standardization across business and operations.• Dive deep into technical and operational details of the business (e.g., key dependencies, business drivers/KPIs, develop actionable business insights, etc.) • Drive improvement plans aligned to OP2 business goals, providing method and skills for high quality process improvement, and promote Kaizen involving all levels of the organization.• Establish a clear alignment between ACES team/Ops Team and the Operational Productivity improvements, resulting in an visible OP2 improvement plan to be followed up on an ongoing basis.• Organize ACES Kaizen events and create platforms for learners to continuously engage in ACES methodologies.• Innovate to improve customer experience and continuously improve organizational efficiency.• Engage with leadership and diversified stakeholder groups to identify and solve complex, ambiguous, high impact business problems We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules- Experience in AI/ML/LLM Operations- Graduate /Post graduate from a Top Tier B School/Engineering College- MBA or Post graduate Diploma- Certified or trained in Lean Six Sigma methodology- Experience in data analysis, either through professional experience or educational qualificationSalary: . Date posted: 03/29/2024 10:07 PM

Specialist FP&A

Adidas, Chennai, Tennessee