Sr Finance Manager - Cost Optimization

Lowe's Companies, Inc.•Mooresville, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The principle purpose of this role is to partner with business leaders (US Home Improvement, Central Dispatch Office, Allied Businesses, and Shared Services) to drive value creation through financial and business leadership from strategy development through execution in order to identify prospective markets and potential opportunities. This includes responsibility for supporting business unit and enterprise scenario planning by developing long-range scenario models, and recommending and executing measurement plans, analytics and coordinated functional scorecard.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree Business, Finance, Accounting or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
7 Years Experience in finance or analytical role
2 Years Experience in strategic and financial modeling
3 Years Experience leading people directly or indirectly
Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field
3 Years Experience in financial analysis, accounting, financial modeling and strategy consulting for business
Experience performing advanced data modeling, data mining and exploratory data analysis (e.g., linear/logistic regression, ARIMA, Cluster Analysis)
Experience leading cross-functionally on enterprise initiatives
Experience working in a big box/large retailer
Experience working at a Fortune 500 company

Responsibilities

Manages a team of financial analysts who will provide functional support to business units ensuring financial best practices are implemented and followed, reported, and analyzed to identify insights for decision making
Leverages the Financial Centers of Expertise to provide financial insights to aid in decision making, identification of financial risks and opportunities, and analysis of performance drivers.
Partners with senior leadership (SVPs & VPs) in the business functional areas to provide financial insights, recommendations, and best practices to help the company make effective resource allocation decisions.
Prepares and communicates certain deliverables to senior management and the Board of Directors relating to the portfolio, guardrails, long-range plan and annual operating plan, linking strategy and intent to financial outcomes and measures of success.
Researches issues as identified, reports findings, suggests alternative courses of action, and constantly look for process improvements.
Guides the business units through the financial planning and forecasting processes, leveraging the appropriate data elements for markets and for the industry to support the evaluation of strategic options and alternatives.
Coordinates with other areas of Finance to ensure projected financial outcomes resulting from business plans are properly planned and forecasted.
Responsible for selecting, hiring, and developing talent to ensure a productive and engaged workforce.
Oversees the building of processes and enterprise score-carding to continuously measure the overall health of Lowe's financial portfolio.
Supports the development of the long-range plan (LRP) for the enterprise, containing the aggregation of business unit plans and modeling for “what if” scenario analyses at the enterprise.