Project Leader, Finance

The Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Project Leader for Northern Division Services provides direct financial support to two Senior Field Directors and 21 Field Directors, each managing their own P&L. This role delivers financial oversight, analytical support, and strategic guidance to drive sales, margin, and ebit across the division. The Project Leader ensures transparency, leverages data to optimize results, and serves as a key partner in operational decision-making.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Access, and Powerpoint.
• MBA.
• Prior experience in corporate finance and/or retail.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree