Assistant Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

Leads business analysis and planning, acts as a strategic business partner across functions, and provides accurate and timely information and solutions to support the Japan Senior Leadership Team. It fosters cross-functional collaboration to achieve one committed plan linked to the market mission and strategy, and constructs and maintains the Integrated Performance Management process for better decision-making. The position focuses on owning and continuously improving specific FP&A-related processes and data within the broader FP&A framework, working closely with other FP&A team members and stakeholders in the Finance team.

• Operate financial planning and forecasting processes with business partners, including KPI and target setting, and ensure consistency between strategy, budget, forecast, and actual performance.
• Support inventory management, standard margin management (including pricing and cost perspectives), and logistics cost analysis, and identify forecast gaps and actions to close them.
• Act as a finance partner to Market Channel, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams by translating business questions into structured financial analysis.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and consensus by clarifying assumptions, financial implications, and trade-offs, and support decision-making by explaining financial impacts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Operate and continuously improve standardised performance reporting across brands and channels, covering P&L, balance sheet-related KPIs, ROI, and profitability.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of recurring management reports, identify key performance drivers, and provide practical insights for business discussions.
• Collaborate with Global Finance teams to align local reporting with global standards and requirements.
• Support integrated planning by connecting inventory, standard margin, and logistics cost perspectives, and contribute to integration of FP&A, demand planning, and marketing-related schedules and planning processes.
• Operate, maintain, and improve management accounting and reporting processes based on SAP AFS and S/4HANA, and develop reporting environments using Power BI.
• Support forecast submission processes in financial systems, manage FP&A-related data handling, improve databases and data flows using VS Code, GitHub Copilot, GitHub, SQL, BI tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions
• And execute daily FP&A operations in accordance with established procedures while identifying issues, implementing corrective actions, and taking ownership of assigned responsibilities with appropriate guidance from supervisors.

• University graduate.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a corporate environment.
• Fluent in Japanese.
• Intermediate level of written English, with the ability to communicate with Global Finance teams.
• Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with data using SQL and BI tools (e.g. Power BI).
• Experience using automation, scripting, or AI-enabled tools (e.g. VS Code, GitHub, DAX, Python, generative AI) to improve reporting, analysis, and data handling processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with and support alignment among cross-functional stakeholders, including senior management.
• Ability to translate business questions into structured analysis and clearly explain results and implications.
• Demonstrates a steady and reliable working style in a structured, recurring process environment.
• Proactive in clarifying expectations and aligning with stakeholders rather than working based on assumptions.
• Able to balance attention to detail with an understanding of the broader business context.
• Maintains a constructive and professional attitude in a multi-stakeholder and changing environment.
• Passion for sport.
• Demonstrates the adidas values: Courage, Ownership, Innovation, Teamplay, Integrity, and Respect.

• Experience working with SAP-based financial or planning systems (e.g. SAP AFS, S/4HANA) is preferred.
• Experience in finance-related roles such as FP&A, finance analytics, or demand planning is preferred.
• Experience in the sport or apparel industry is a plus.

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