Business Solutions Analyst - AI

Serves as the PMO and AI-enablement anchor of the Tech Finance LAM team, which owns the invoicing, e-invoicing and fiscal compliance landscape across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Peru. It strengthens how the team plans, governs and delivers its project portfolio through an AI-driven management approach, using agents, automation and data in place of manual coordination and reporting, which gives the team more visibility, predictability and delivery capacity. The role works closely with the Director Tech Finance and the country owners to turn strategy into an organised, measurable and transparent execution model, and manages no personnel.

• Leads the Tech Finance LAM portfolio governance, covering demand intake, prioritisation, planning, status reporting, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Defines, implements and continuously improves the team's delivery framework, including templates, project cadence, steering committee materials, RAID logs and lessons learned.
• Supports country owners and GBS/SAP initiatives with planning, milestone tracking and cross-domain coordination, such as e-invoicing provider migrations and fiscal compliance changes.
• Tracks portfolio budget, vendor contracts, purchase orders and invoices in partnership with Controlling and Procurement.
• Produces consolidated, decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership, including portfolio dashboards, KPIs and executive summaries.
• Designs and runs AI-powered management processes such as automated status consolidation, portfolio health reporting, risk alerts, and meeting and action-item tracking.
• Builds AI agents and automations that give the team and leadership real-time visibility into projects, vendors and key indicators.
• Rapidly prototypes internal tools and dashboards using AI-assisted development, low-code platforms and LLM tooling, and partners with Engineering to scale validated solutions.
• Identifies manual, repetitive management activities across the team and proposes AI-based alternatives that free capacity for value-adding work.
• Ensures AI solutions follow adidas governance on data protection, security (InfoSec) and responsible AI use.
• Leads the investigation of needs, problems and opportunities across finance and fiscal processes, and recommends improvements in automated and non-automated components.
• Elicits, specifies and documents requirements for medium to complex subject areas, including multi-country fiscal requirements, owns requirements baselines and manages change requests in line with change management policy.
• Defines acceptance criteria and coordinates testing (SIT/UAT) with business and vendors.

• Four-year college or university degree in IT, Engineering, Business Administration or related areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in IT, including at least 1 year in PMO, project management or project coordination.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools to real business problems: LLMs, AI agents, prompt engineering and AI-assisted coding.
• Solid knowledge of project management practices (Agile and Waterfall/hybrid) and tools such as Jira, Confluence and MS Project.
• Data and reporting skills using Excel/Power BI or similar.
• Proficient spoken and written English and Spanish.
• AI-first mindset, with "can this be automated or augmented?" as the default question.
• Structured, organised and detail-oriented, while comfortable with ambiguity.
• Builder attitude: prototypes fast, tests and iterates.
• Strong communication and storytelling for leadership audiences.
• Ownership, autonomy and ability to influence without formal authority.
• Regional, multicultural collaboration mindset.

• SQL or Python.
• Portuguese language proficiency.
• Exposure to finance/ERP systems (SAP), invoicing/e-invoicing and LATAM fiscal compliance (CFDI, NF-e, DTE, etc.).
• PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, Scrum or SAFe certification; AI or automation certifications.

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