Sr Financial Analyst - Integration Management Office

Lowe's Companies • Mooresville, NC

78d

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst serves as a financial steward in the organization by collaborating with business partners in core business functions across the Company. The Senior Analyst must be able to work effectively within a matrixed organization and demonstrate self-leadership and change agility, as well as the ability to influence and interact with various levels of the organization. They will partner with the business to drive planning through operational levers, provide performance reporting, and manage the forecast.

Requirements

• Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ Years of 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

Nice To Haves

• Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ Years of Experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or related
• Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Supply Chain Finance or related field
• Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners and business units that result in quarterly 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.
• Supports the development of expense plans using agreed upon volume, rate, growth, and transportation cost assumptions; troubleshoot questions and reconciliations. Coordinate with data owners to formulate answers.
• 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; identify and proactively source necessary inputs for analysis; support operational and financial storytelling.
• Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy for root causes issues and apply these learning to future reports; translates findings into clear, understandable themes; identifying 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 (or initiative's) strategic narrative; identifying risks to the organization and engaging the business owner in risk mitigation and trade-offs; identifying and measuring key trigger points (metrics) that provide insight into an initiative's success (leading and final indicators).
• Applies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables; leverages an understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifies, recommends, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees