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Your Impact
The Senior Financial Analyst serves as a financial steward for the Reverse Recovery, Outlets, and Sales Floor operations teams. The Senior Analyst must be able to work effectively within a matrixed organization and demonstrate self-leadership and agility, as well as the ability to influence and interact with various parts of the organization. They will partner with the Store Operations team to drive plans through operational levers, provide performance reporting, and develop financial goals for strategic initiatives.
What You Will Do
- 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.
- Leads the development of Liquidation Revenue and Expense Plans and Outlet Store Sales and Margin plans by using 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; identifies and proactively sources necessary inputs for analysis; supports operational and financial storytelling.
- Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy for root cause issues and applies these learnings to future reports; translates findings into clear, understandable themes; identifies complete, consistent, and actionable insights and recommendations.
- Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models tied to an initiatives strategic narrative.
- Applies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables; leverages understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifies, recommends, and implements improvements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 3-5 years of experience in finance or analytical roles with a public company, public accounting, or related.
- Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with financial forecasting, analytic modeling, and report automation.
Preferred Skills/Education
- Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5-7 years of experience in finance or analytical roles with a public company, public accounting, or related.
- Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Supply Chain Finance, or related fields.
- Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime.
- Experience with tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Microstrategy, Qlik, etc.
- Experience with SQL and enterprise environments (Teradata, Hadoop, Presto).
- Experience with ERP systems and multi-dimensional databases like TM1, Hyperion, or Essbase.
- Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos).
- Certifications such as CPA, CFA, CMA are preferred.
About Lowes
Lowes Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a Fortune 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions weekly in the U.S. With fiscal year 2024 sales exceeding $83 billion, Lowes operates over 1,700 stores and employs around 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowes supports communities through programs focused on affordable housing, community spaces, skilled trades development, and disaster relief. For more, visit Lowes.com.
Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected category. Starting pay varies by factors including location, education, and experience. Benefits info at
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Finance and Sales
Industries
- Retail
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