Senior Analyst, Finance EMEA

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking an experienced FP&A professional to join the CPM Finance team for the EMEA sales organization. The role requires advanced analytical modelling, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.

Based at the Netherlands headquarters, you will lead long-range revenue planning, month‑end close, Gross‑to‑Net analysis, and cross‑functional partnering to optimise marketplace investments and profitability across MPUs.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and P&L management.
• Advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights.
• Experience assessing business performance, profitability, investment opportunities, risks, and controls across end-to-end business processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Relevant business partnership experience in a retail or wholesale environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to develop and maintain analytical models, tools, and reporting to support business needs and decision-making.
• Strong knowledge of planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment analysis, and economic profit analysis.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and English language skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely.
• Ability to support projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.
• Results-oriented mindset, strong problem-solving skills, personal impact, and a sense of urgency.
• High integrity, transparency, confidence, and sound judgment.
• Ability to work agilely across the finance function with strong prioritisation.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to identify financial opportunities and risks.
• Ability to ensure data accuracy, integrity, security, and privacy.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-range and in-year revenue planning process across MPUs or a specific MPU, including annual, quarterly, and monthly forecasting as well as budget cycles.
• Own month-end financial closing activities, including monthly landing, actuals analysis, retroactive discount accruals, and tracking.
• Create and analyse Gross-to-Net performance and support MPU finance teams with insightful financial data to inform marketplace decisions.
• Act as a key business partner in developing and standardising Commercial Terms strategy and frameworks in partnership with MPU finance teams.
• Own the preparation and distribution of timely, insightful financial analysis and optimised business reporting, providing meaningful insights into key business drivers and supporting geo/global financial deliverables.
• Sustain, improve, and implement business reporting processes and tools with an automation and standardisation approach, in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support account and mutual profitability analyses to enable marketplace decision-making and maximise profitability for NIKE, Inc., including driving recommendations and executing high-impact opportunities across functions.
• Act as a thought partner for NMP Finance Leads in short- and long-term P&L management, including margin, investments, payoff, and measures of success to evaluate performance.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

P&L management

Analytical modelling

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Business partnering

Prioritisation

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Microsoft Office

SAP

Anaplan

Power BI

Job description

About the Role

The role sits within the EMEA FP&A team, specifically Commercial Portfolio Management (CPM Finance), and reports directly to the Finance Director, EMEA Sales. It is part of the Sales Finance team and collaborates with business and finance teams including Sales FP&A MPU Leads, Central Finance, Commercial, Sales, Marketplace Supply Chain, Demand and Supply Management, Partner Go-To Consumer, and other cross-functional stakeholders. EMEA operates with centrally managed Marketplace Units (MPUs) that serve the entire EMEA marketplace. The role is commercially focused, involving decisions that impact the business, building cross-functional partnerships, driving financial alignment around strategic and operational goals, and helping optimise marketplace investments. Predictability and accuracy in partner financials are critical to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the long-range and in-year revenue planning process across MPUs or a specific MPU, including annual, quarterly, and monthly forecasting as well as budget cycles.
• Own month-end financial closing activities, including monthly landing, actuals analysis, retroactive discount accruals, and tracking.
• Create and analyse Gross-to-Net performance and support MPU finance teams with insightful financial data to inform marketplace decisions.
• Act as a key business partner in developing and standardising Commercial Terms strategy and frameworks in partnership with MPU finance teams.
• Own the preparation and distribution of timely, insightful financial analysis and optimised business reporting, providing meaningful insights into key business drivers and supporting geo/global financial deliverables.
• Sustain, improve, and implement business reporting processes and tools with an automation and standardisation approach, in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support account and mutual profitability analyses to enable marketplace decision-making and maximise profitability for NIKE, Inc., including driving recommendations and executing high-impact opportunities across functions.
• Act as a thought partner for NMP Finance Leads in short- and long-term P&L management, including margin, investments, payoff, and measures of success to evaluate performance.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and P&L management.
• Advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights.
• Experience assessing business performance, profitability, investment opportunities, risks, and controls across end-to-end business processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Relevant business partnership experience in a retail or wholesale environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to develop and maintain analytical models, tools, and reporting to support business needs and decision-making.
• Strong knowledge of planning, forecasting, budgeting, investment analysis, and economic profit analysis.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and English language skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely.
• Ability to support projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.
• Results-oriented mindset, strong problem-solving skills, personal impact, and a sense of urgency.
• High integrity, transparency, confidence, and sound judgment.
• Ability to work agilely across the finance function with strong prioritisation.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to identify financial opportunities and risks.
• Ability to ensure data accuracy, integrity, security, and privacy.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAP, Anaplan, and Power BI.

Workplace

• Based at the European headquarters in the Netherlands.
• Relocation is not available for this position.