Lead, Finance APLA

Apla Finance Lead

The APLA Finance Lead will join the Margin team, a key component within the Business Planning organization. This role will be a valuable contributor delivering in-year performance management and long-term financial leadership for Nike's Asia Pacific & Latin America (APLA) Geography. They will partner with key stakeholders to set strategy, create financial guardrails, provide deep analytical insight, and identify margin accretive levers to enable sustained profitability. This role requires a highly motivated finance professional with the ability to turn large data sets into insights, to synthesize a diverse range of business and operating metrics and present these findings in a clear and digestible way, which includes the ability to influence senior leaders.

You will help to create and shape the long-range financial plan for APLA as well as manage in-year performance across the geography. This specifically includes metrics and levers impacting business gross margin, such as product cost, marketplace discounts, warehousing & freight, mix, and channel profitability dynamics. With full visibility across APLA's business portfolio P&L you will operate as a key connection point between global and territory teammates while influencing the operation of the geography.

• Support margin expansion by working closely with and understanding dynamics at play in the Nike marketplace, channel profitability, markdowns & discounting, and wholesale and direct lines of business. This includes partnering with a teammate focused on product assortment, seasonal planning, and the impact of gross product margin driven by product cost and how that influences gross margin.
• Create and communicate geography and territory margin targets in alignment with Nike's Long Term Financial Model through CSR, AOP, and Budget Corporate planning deliverables.
• Partner with APLA Supply Chain to understand and influence decision related to warehousing and freight, fixed and variable CPU's, and investments in the supply chain.
• Support HQ monthly forecasting, balancing territory complexities, and influencing strategic decisions to ensure profitable growth.
• Own inputs to monthly CFO reviews, requiring familiarity with Nike's 1st Cost Pivot margin model and working closely with Finance Transformation, GBP, and APLA FBI teammates.
• Interface with Territory Finance teams in Japan, Korea, SEA&I, Pacific, and Latin America to consolidate APLA financial performance, communicate drivers, and guide plans based on portfolio risk & opportunities.
• Lead ad-hoc analyses to support decisions around Nike-critical initiatives (oftentimes in response to changing macroeconomic or business conditions) streamlining processes & tools with the goal of improving efficiencies without sacrificing quality or reliability.
• Regularly present financial results and recommendations to APLA Senior Leadership, including APLA CFO, Business Planning, Marketplace, as well as DSM and cross-functional business leaders.

This role will support a diverse set of stakeholders including Senior Leadership, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Global Business Planning, Finance Transformation, and other cross-functional teams. Subject matter expert finance teams (e.g. Territory, Portfolio, Marketplace, and Supply Chain) will be key partners, which also includes the Senior Director of APLA Business Planning and APLA CFO. This candidate will join a team of three and report to the Finance Director of APLA Margin.

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business or related field; or equivalent combination of experience, education and training
• 6 years directly relevant work experience in corporate finance, strategic planning, accounting and/or budgeting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to wide and diverse audiences, including senior leaders
• Strong financial analysis and modelling skills. Works independently with large amounts of data, exhibits resourcefulness, can balance multiple workstreams, and is well organized
• Able to develop high profile, influential and collaborative relationships across teams
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Results-oriented, high-energy self-starter with ability to manage through ambiguity and that thrives in a dynamic environment
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint