Senior Finance Manager

Our Company
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We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity:

From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night consider the media you consume, the adverts you see, the apps you use, the websites you browse and almost all of the shopping you do online throughout the day. Chances are that every single one of those interactions, every single one of those experiences, was touched by an Adobe product.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Finance Manager to join our Adobe Finance team based in Munich.

Predominantly supporting the Central Europe region, your role will be to provide financial analysis and insight to impact short-, medium- and long-term business performance up to the leadership team across both the Digital Experience and Digital Media organization. While focused on Central Europe, you will also support the wider EMEA region, collaborating with our EMEA Finance Team.

We are looking for a high-quality professional who enjoys detailed precision, and high-level strategic analysis and problem solving. It requires a candidate that will always look at the big picture and puts across opinions on the business and not just on finance issues. Where there is an opportunity to contribute, expressing an opinion from a finance perspective can have huge impact and will be heard. This person will use deep, sophisticated datasets to identify and communicate measurable insights. You must be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, and enjoy a culture subject to rapid change.

What you'll Do:

• Support weekly outlook reviews with local sales teams, maintaining high levels of control and lead data driven tools / processes

• Lead evolving risks and opportunities across fiscal quarters and proactively optimizing sales

• Craft valuable financial insights on recurring and ad-hoc basis to drive tactical interventions to underlying trading performance.

• Build and expand standardized insights across EMEA teams and scale use of finance tools as well as regular system consolidation processes.

• Strategy - candidate must position the role to be a key player in the strategy for the region. Gather initiatives, model scenarios, and drive the business through the strategy

• Leverage and collaborate with India based shared services and wider ecosystem, to underpin and develop the Central Europe Strategy, Annual Plan, Quarterly Forecast and Weekly Outlook

• Drive finance insights into competitive landscape to optimize market opportunities and shape the GTM planning.

• Ensure efficient operating cost management to improve return on investment and profitability

What you need to succeed:

• 4+ years of FP&A (or related) experience required

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

• Well-developed critical thinking skills with a bias toward independently crafting order and innovative solutions out of ambiguity

• A reliable teammate who partners closely with peers across Sales, FP&A, Finance Systems, Marketing, Accounting, Legal, and IT, often in different geographical locations

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to summarize and effectively convey key information

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or PowerBI. Experience in efficiently crafting and maintaining sophisticated models

• Experience with Anaplan and TM1 would be an advantage and / or similar accounting tools/systems

• Fluency in English & German languages

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We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours.

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