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: 04/01/2024 08:11 PM

Content Risk Team Manager, Amazon

Amazon, Chennai, Tennessee

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of operational and/or retail management experience- 2+ years of team management experience- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (esp. MS Excel, Word) at an advanced levelDESCRIPTIONAt Amazon, innovation drives growth and enables us to offer our customers more types of products more conveniently and at even lower prices. Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon. We envision wireless electronic reading experiences that embrace a physical book's simplicity and utility but take advantage of our store platform and the Kindle's ubiquitous wireless connectivity. Our vision for Kindle is to have every book, ever printed, in any language, all available in under 60 seconds from anywhere in the world. The Amazon Kindle team is seeking a CRM (Content Risk Management) Team Manager for our Kindle Books Self-Publishing Operations.Responsibilities:• Lead and supervise a team of L3 reviewers and L4 specialists. • Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures. • Accountability for setting and meeting team operational goals. • Assign and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline employees; resolve problems; and address staffing needs; • Standard Operating Procedures development and roll-out, especially related to new process creation. • Leverage technology and process innovation to bring continuous improvement to the operation (scalability, efficiency, scope, etc.). • This position requires a candidate with the proven ability to drive process improvements and new process creation as well as the ability to keep pace with our growth while motivating others to meet the challenges of an extremely deadline-driven environment.Key job responsibilities• Lead and supervise a team of 15 to 20 reviewers. • Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures. • Accountability for setting and meeting team operational goals. • Assign and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline employees; resolve problems; and address staffing needs; • Standard Operating Procedures development and roll-out, especially related to new process creation. • Leverage technology and process innovation to bring continuous improvement to the operation (scalability, efficiency, scope, etc.). • This position requires a candidate with the proven ability to drive process improvements and new process creation as well as the ability to keep pace with our growth while motivating others to meet the challenges of an extremely deadline-driven environment. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience with operations, risk, fraud investigations etc.- Experience with six sigma tools and Lean techniquesSalary: . Date posted: 04/10/2024 10:16 PM

Manager II, Support Engineer

Amazon, Chennai, Tennessee

BASIC QUALIFICATIONSB.E. in Computer Science or a related field. 2+ years of experience building, managing engineering teams. 9+ years overall development/technical support experience. knowledge of programming, Operating System and Cloud technology concepts preferred Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings Shows creativity and initiative to improve productivity using automation or creative processes. Ability to understand technical specifications, distributed systems architecture and ability to deep dive on service/application logsDESCRIPTIONThe eBook industry is in its early stages and is evolving rapidly. We are looking for excellent software engineers to join us in consistently improving our customer experience towards our goal of "Every book, ever written, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds."The Kindle Store team builds and operates the Kindle books shopping experience across platforms around the world. This includes the shopping experience on the retail website, all e-ink and Kindle Fire devices and Kindle reading apps. Our charter is to build a store that makes it easy for customers to find content that is relevant to them.As a support engineer your work will involve: - Developing tools, applications, code improvements and scripts to resolve operational burden of support engineers and operations - Support engineering and troubleshooting on issues related to the digital platform services and content for various products - Interface with content acquisition, content providers, operations and technical teams to ensure content delivery as per service level agreements - Production builds, tools, and configuration management for software product releases and successful deployments.Key job responsibilities* Monitor & Drive team to Resolution of Trouble Tickets within defined SLA's. Drive escalations to engineering team.* Drive Root Cause Analysis, Impact Analysis and Production Deployment support.* Build automated frameworks, tools, solutions to enable stakeholders/business owners monitor health/drive business outcomes.* Build a culture of direct code interaction by nurturing talent towards building applications/debugging & making code level fixes.* Regular interactions with various internal business-owners (like engineering teams) to help understand requirements & business priorities, define engagement model and drive improvements.* Developing support strategies and creating appropriate harnesses as well as pragmatic approaches for quick & effective support.* Resource planning to support various program asks.* Drive initiatives to maximize operational efficiency.* Defining measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective Support goals.* Build best-of-class support engineering teamWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS* Hands-on technical expertise * Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment * Experience in preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals.Salary: . Date posted: 04/16/2024 10:21 PM