Senior Financial Analyst, Store Operations 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 Senior Financial Analyst in Store Operations Finance plays a crucial role as a financial steward within the organization, collaborating with various business partners across core functions. This position requires effective navigation within a matrixed organization, showcasing self-leadership and the ability to influence stakeholders. The analyst will drive operational plans, provide performance reporting, and manage financial forecasts, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners and business units, resulting 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.
• Develops expense plans using agreed upon volume, rate, growth, and transportation cost assumptions; troubleshoots questions and reconciliations.
• Coordinates with data owners to formulate answers.
• Collaborates across the business to provide root cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non-financial data.
• Communicates financial and non-financial insights to leaders by preparing analyses using multiple data sources.
• Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy for root causes issues and applies these learnings to future reports.
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models tied to strategic narratives.
• Identifies risks to the organization and engages business owners in risk mitigation and trade-offs.
• Applies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 3 years of experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting or related experience
• 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
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 6 years of experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting or related experience
• 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
• Strong experience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, MicroStrategy, Qlik, etc.
• Experience with SQL and familiarity with enterprise grade environments (Teradata, Hadoop, Presto)
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based systems, multi-dimensional databases, such as TM1, Hyperion or Essbase
• Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Teradata, SSIS, Svr.)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Employee discount programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities