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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is integral in supporting and developing internal controls across business processes in North America. The role provides control expertise to improve processes, support governance, compliance with IFRS, adidas global and local policies, and internal control requirements. The position is integral to ensuring Corporate Governance through stakeholders across NAM. It aims at:

• Ensuring compliance with applicable external laws and internal regulations as well as the established Group Internal Control frameworks, and Group/Market/Brand best practices and policies.
• Developing and supporting initiatives and projects focused on improving the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of business processes at both a local and regional level.
• Protecting company physical assets (e.g., stock, cash on different premises), including public and internal dishonesty, procedural failure, administrative error, and wastage, as well as maximizing profit by ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
• Responsible for working with the Director of Internal Controls to identify opportunities for improvement, measure and analyze current business processes, and redesign processes to meet the needs of a complex and growing business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordination of risk-based initiatives and projects to support the NAM control environment.
• Support of timely coordination and testing of key business controls, and any mandatory documentation associated with these controls.
• Proactive and continuous review of controls to assess and identify risk within the business.
• Ensure speedy remediation of identified control deficiencies in collaboration with Director of Internal Controls.
• Coordination of timely and continuous action plan follow-up with control owners; sharing best practices from other Markets and Global.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders across all relevant functions to support appropriate best practice knowledge sharing and implementation of relevant processes.
• Support Director in the preparation of the reporting packages (ICS testing results, action plan follow-up) to local senior management and the Board.
• Participation in Global Internal Audit meetings, and Global/Market Internal Controls calls and sessions for relevant risk topics and sharing of best practices.

Policies & Procedure awareness & process improvement:

• Develop, support, and lead initiatives or processes focused on improving efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of business processes.
• Development, maintenance, and updating of local policies and procedures to support the control environment.
• Supporting the awareness and knowledge of global/market policies and procedures at a local level.

Key Relationships:

• NAM Market: Business leaders and process owners.
• Group: Global Internal Controls, Group Audit, Group Risk Management, GBS and cross functional process owners.
• External auditors.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong project management, process management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders and cross-functional business leaders.
• Engaging team members meet/or exceed global & local business partner expectations for compliance and control topics.
• Strong auditing, internal controls, and process improvement skills.
• Demonstrate an adaptive mindset, and the ability to utilize different resources and digital tools to drive automation and transparency.
• Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment.
• Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated.
• Accounting and finance knowledge preferred.
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 8-10 years' experience in similar function/position.
• Knowledge in ERP Systems such as SAP preferred.
• Knowledge of cross functional project management.

  adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas' 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

  Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.

  The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.

  Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

  adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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