Sr Financial Analyst – Pro & Services Finance
| Company | Lowe’s |
|---|---|
| Location | Huntersville, NC, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 3-5 Years 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
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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5-7 Years 6 Years 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, KnimeStrong
- 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)