Finance Project Leader - Rental

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Leader - Rental Finance is a high-impact role supporting a $1.2B and rapidly growing Rental business. The team is lean and operates in a fast-paced, evolving environment where data maturity is still developing. This role offers strong exposure across the business, with the opportunity to work closely with leadership and directly influence outcomes through data-driven insights. You’ll have end-to-end visibility across the P&L—from sales to profit and capital investments—and play a key role in connecting financial insights to future business strategy.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
3 years of work experience.
Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.

Nice To Haves

Strong financial acumen with experience in corporate finance and analytics
Ability to connect data to business outcomes and communicate insights effectively
Proactive, “go-getter” mindset with a desire to work in a fast-paced environment
Comfortable navigating ambiguity
Strong Excel skills (SQL/BigQuery/Tableau experience is a plus)
Curious, growth-oriented mindset with interest in expanding scope and impact

Responsibilities

Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed.
Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented.
Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders.
Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership.
Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches.
Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk.
Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders.
Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.
Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment.
Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.