As Finance Lead for Nike EMEA Brand Marketing, you will lead finance across all Brand Marketing in Nike for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and serve as a critical member of the Nike Marketing Finance team. In this role you'll act as a Business Partner with a growth mindset, bringing a self-starter and can-do attitude to enable the voice of the Brand, that makes consumers feel the power of sport with Nike. This unique challenge requires a curious, flexible and problem-solving oriented individual to provide insights on data and management across the Nike Marketing Finance ecosystem of partners; where consumer evidence, data, and science are utilized to activate sales and build the Brand. You will be part of a team integrating and elevating how one of the biggest Brands in the world, Nike, is sourcing and managing marketing funds, providing advisory services to a broad spectrum of decision-makers and operators, and serving as a strategic thought partner in pursuit of our purpose and mission. 

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This role reports to the Sr. Manager, Marketing Finance and will be part of a small and nimble Marketing Finance team that provides best in class strategic, analytical, and financial support to a broad ecosystem of partners. You will be partnering with Marketing Brand Planning & Operations, Procurement, Controlling, FP&A, and a broad range of Marketing stakeholders. You will also be a part of our Finance Planning community, which oversees overall Geo financial plans.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Solid experience in a finance or strategic planning role with a proven track record delivering results and experience influencing key business decisions.

• Experience in Budgeting, Forecasting, Return on Investment analysis, and Financial modeling.

• Strong Nike Business Insight. Quantifies risks, assesses trends and opportunities, and creates recommendations to improve financial performance.

• Excellent analytical and presentation skills with the ability to translate sophisticated analysis into clear and compelling narratives.

• Proven track record to operate optimally in agile working environments and communicating effectively with teammates while handling multiple priorities.

• Self-starter who pro-actively brings new ideas and initiatives.

• Ability to work with large amounts of data across various systems and tools and be able to create sharp visualizations.

• Positive energy, confidence, integrity, and passion for the Brand.

• Must be proficient in Microsoft applications, expert Excel user preferred – experience with SAP (COPA, BW, ECCS) or other BI tools is preferred

• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This role helps drive the execution of the marketing investments process to deploy resources that create and deliver growth and profitability for Nike, both in season and in the long run. To be successful, you must love a collaborative and human-centric environment, willing to roll up your sleeves to evaluate data, take an enterprise view and not shy away from hard conversations. You'll need to put the right focus on relevant details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges, while cultivating positive relationships with internal business partners and contributing to efficiencies in how we work. You’ll also thrive with uncertainty and ambiguity and see it as an opportunity to build new strategies and approaches to deliver future growth to Nike.

• Own the Brand portion of the Marketing portfolio, partnering directly with the Brand Marketing team to optimize in-year financial management.

• Connect the dots between key Brand initiative investments to our Sport Offense structure, enabling ROI analysis across our key campaign and sports (i.e. Running, Football, etc.)

• Challenge the status quo and champion an end-to-end process improvement approach to adjust ways of working and embed the finance fundamentals.

• Collaborate with key cross functional partners to drive action and accountability in monthly forecasts and strategic investment decisions.

• Long-term financial modeling including CSR, AOP, and Budget.

• Prepare month-end deliverables and partner with Marketing Ops, Controlling and Business Planning teams to ensure accurate financial reporting.

Application deadline: 12/11/2025