Sr Financial Analyst - Stores Finance Operations

About the role

This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up – we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners and business units that result in monthly forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans;
• Provides business performance reporting and commentary;
• Supports financial modeling and business analytics to address P&L queries;
• Collaborates across the business and with peers to provide root cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non-financial data to functional partners and business units;
• Communicates financial and non-financial insights to leaders by preparing analyses using multiple data sources;
• Identifies and proactively source necessary inputs for analysis;
• Supports operational and financial storytelling;
• Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy, determine root causes and apply these learnings to future reports;
• Translates findings into clear, understandable themes;
• Identifies complete, consistent, and actionable insights and recommendations;
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models tied to a program’s strategic narrative;
• Identifies risks to the organization and engages the business owner in risk mitigation and trade-offs;
• Identifies and measures key metrics that provide insight into an initiative’s success;
• Applies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables;
• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems;
• Identifies, recommends, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 3 Years Experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or related
• Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross-functional collaboration
• Experience with financial forecasting or analytic modeling and report automation

Preferred Skills/Education

• Master’s degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 6 Years Experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or related
• Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Retail Finance or related field
• Experience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, Microstrategy, Qlik, etc.
• Experience with SQL and familiarity of enterprise-grade environment (Teradata, Hadoop, Presto)
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based systems, multi-dimensional databases, such as TM1, Hyperion or Essebase
• Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Teradata, SSIS, Svr.)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Benefits

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Pay

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.