Senior Specialist Internal Controls

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Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization
This is an exciting position that will directly contribute to a strong corporate governance environment through developing, coordinating, implementing and measuring performance of a meaningful system of internal controls throughout adidas.

The Senior Specialist Internal Controls is tasked to work with business process owners to build a comprehensive system covering key risks and controls to enable testing to be performed by Markets, Functions and Global Business Services (GBS). The results of effectiveness of internal controls testing performed is periodically summarized and presented on a timely regular basis, including to the Chief Audit Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board.

This role involves being a key team member of the IC team within the Corporate Internal Audit (CIA) department.

This position offers learning, development and creation opportunities in an international environment within a multi-cultural, sports enthusiastic team that values inclusion and diversity. The team embraces change and innovation in order to support the company mission to be the best sports company in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the Global Internal Controls Framework according to process responsibility.
• Assist in coordinating communication across the ICS community, including organizing monthly meetings, conferences, and community meetings.
• Conduct Internal Controls Testing for HQ functions and support market teams in their testing activities, ensuring consistent quality standards across all regions and act as a gatekeeper for Internal Controls Testing documentation quality and consistency.
• Scoping: Coordinate scoping of entities and controls to ensure completeness of testing.
• Follow-up: Drive the process for validating closure of action plans stemming from failed internal controls testing results for both markets and HQ.
• Contribute to the development and updating of training materials to upskill the ICS community (e.g., TeamMate+, SAP, testing documentation).
• Support as an administrator for TeamMate+, managing users and performing other system-related tasks.
• Support the digitalization roadmap by helping build Power BI dashboards, work on continous monitoring use cases and other automation projects.
• Continuously expand knowledge of key business processes, systems, and initiatives through training and self-learning.
• Identify and suggest improvements to day-to-day Internal Controls processes and tools, and share best practices across the organization.
• Support in company-wide projects from a risk and control perspective to set up future processes.

Key Relationships

• Internal Controls community at markets and Global Business Services (GBS),
• Corporate Internal Audit team,
• Aligned Assurance functions such as Compliance, Privacy, Employee Relations, Information Security, etc.,
• Corporate functions and Market contacts covering all areas of the business such as Sales, Global Brands, Finance & GBS, Human Resources, Global Operations.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Solution-oriented, adaptable, self-motivated, driven and committed team player with integrity and perseverance. Able to accept and meet deadlines, involving effective time management capacity and sense of priorities and agility.
• Good analytic capabilities to manage a large volume of information from various sources (interviews, data) and perform robust risk assessments. Experience with data analytics is extremely beneficial.
• Good interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation; can adapt and navigate easily within a changing environment and complex organizations; able to connect with a variety of functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures and create/foster stakeholder relationships.
• Curious and growth mindset, keen to learn and approach subjects outside of the comfort zone, able to think critically and bring in different perspectives (e.g. transferable skills).
• Comfortable to present and communicate in English effectively, both in writing and verbally.
• Additional language skills would be advantageous (e.g. German, Mandarin, Spanish, etc.).

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in a business-related discipline (e.g. Accounting/Controlling/Finance, Management, Business Administration, International Business etc.).
• 2+ years of assurance, advisory or consulting experience, preferably within a multi-national organization or professional services firm.
• Strong interest, passion or practical experience in consumer products industry, diverse sales channels and brands (e.g. Tech, Fraud, Supply Chain, Wholesale, Retail, eCommerce, Digital, Finance).
• Professional designations (e.g. CIA, CPA, CISA, CFE, etc.) preferred.

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.