Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Our EMEA Sales business is the third party wholesale channel in our marketplace. Working in EMEA Sales is working in a world class X-functional team to drive long term profitable growth while driving Nike’s Inc vision and execution of the strategy.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Within the EMEA Nike Sales Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, namely, Finance Account Management and Center of Excellence (AM&COE Finance), we are looking for a EMEA Senior Finance Analyst to join our European headquarters in the Netherlands. EMEA runs an offense with centrally managed Marketplace units (MPU) serving the entire EMEA marketplace. As an EMEA Senior Finance Analyst you will play a key role in realizing the growth potential, driving and delivering a sustained, mutually profitable business by being part of the Sales FP&A team.

In this commercial focused team, you will make decisions that impact our business and as such high profile communication is key to enable and drive change. As a team player you will develop x-functional partnerships with our main stakeholders. You will drive financial alignment around strategic and operational goals while ensuring we optimize marketplace investments. Predictivity and accuracy on those partners’ financials are key to the role.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

This is an agile work force for Sales FP&A team that is expected to possess the following core competencies:

• demonstrate expertise in financial analysis, financial planning and strategic thinking to create executive messaging in support of business decision making
• develop and manage operational initiatives to drive efficiencies and improvements
• lead scenario planning and forecasting activities to support business and company goals
• review financial information and identify potential risks and opportunities
• provides direction and leadership to teammates
• quantify risks, assess trends and opportunities, define objectives, and develop strategies to improve financial performance
• Use scenario planning and strategic insights to create executive level reporting and messaging that influence business decisions

More specifically, Senior Finance Analyst will be a member of the AM & COE Team within Sales FP&A that has day-to-day responsibilities mainly including the following:

• Drive the long range and in-year revenue planning process across the MPUs including annual, quarterly, and monthly forecasting as well as the budget cycle (CSR, AOP, Budget)
• Be responsible for the month-end financial closing activities (monthly landing, actuals analysis, retroactive discount accruals and tracking)
• Proactively create and analyze Gross to Net and assist MPU finance teams with insightful financial data to drive marketplace decisions
• Be a key business partner in developing and standardizing Commercial Terms strategy and framework in cooperation with finance MPU teams
• Own the preparation and distribution of timely & insightful financial analysis & optimizing business reporting, providing meaningful insights into the key drivers of the business and support Geo/Global financial deliverables
• Sustain, improve and implement business reporting processes and tools with an automatizsation and standardization approach (in collaboration with respective cross-functional stakeholders)
• Support Account and Mutual Profitability analyses to enable Marketplace decision making and maximize profitability for Nike inc. (driving recommendations and executing high-impact opportunities across functions)
• Be a thought partner for NMP Finance Leads in short and long-term P&L management (margin, investments, payoff) and develop measures of success to evaluate performance

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

In this role, you will be part of the EMEA FP&A Team, reporting directly to the Finance Director, EMEA Sales.  To be successful in this role, you will need to collaborate with various business and finance teams, including Sales FP&A MPU Leads, various Central Finance teams, along with other finance teams, as well as cross-functional stakeholders such as Commercial and Supporting Teams, such as Sales, Marketplace Supply Chain, Demand and Supply Management, Partner Go-To Consumer, etc.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Proven and relevant business partnership experience in a retail or wholesale environment
• Outstanding analytical and financial analysis skills, including a strong understanding of financial modeling and P&L management
• Excellent skills in Excel, Power Point and MS Office tools
• Ability to develop and maintain analytical models and tools to support business needs
• Ability to integrate and co