Finance Manager, Merchandising Finance

Lowe's - Mooresville, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Mooresville, NC

10,001+ employees

Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers

About the position

The Finance Manager, Merchandising Finance at Lowe's plays a crucial role in partnering with various business areas to support strategic initiatives. This position involves cross-functional collaboration to develop forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans, while also providing insights and recommendations to enhance business performance. The Finance Manager acts as a subject matter expert, mentoring junior team members and influencing senior leaders within the company.

Responsibilities

• Develops Senior Specialist, Analyst, and Senior Analyst talent by managing and prioritizing day-to-day workload and direction; reviewing work output and providing feedback; coaching and mentoring on strengths and opportunities.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) and thought leader on respective team.
• 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 (2-3 years).
• Collaborates across the business 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 analysis and insights to leaders by preparing analyses through leveraging multiple data sources; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights & recommendations; translating insights into clear, understandable themes.
• Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area; leveraging an understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborating cross functionally to solve business problems; identifying, recommending, and implementing ways to address improvement opportunities.
• 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-off conversations; identifying and measuring key trigger points (metrics) that will provide business insight into an initiative's success (leading and final indicators).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
• 6 years of experience in finance or analytical role in public company and accounting
• 1 year of experience with financial forecasting or analytical modeling
• Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross functional collaboration
• Previous experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance or Corporate Accounting
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
• Experience leading people directly or indirectly
• Experience developing and managing operational initiatives to deliver results
• Experience managing implementation of mid-size projects, programs or processes
• Experience working in a big box/large retailer
• Experience working at a Fortune 500 company
• CPA, CFA, CMA certification

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Employee discounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities