What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst, Tech Finance position at Lowes?
Financial Analyst, Tech Finance
Your Impact:
The primary purpose of this role is to partner with functional business partners and business units as a financial subject matter expert in support of core company focus areas. This is accomplished by cross-functional collaboration to convert complex business plans into quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans; develop and maintain scorecards; develop business cases; and provide proactive analysis, insights, and recommendations to optimize business performance. To accomplish this, the Analyst must have knowledge of financial and business analytics principles. This individual will collaborate with Finance peers to ensure that insights from functional areas and business units are understood and incorporated into work products. Additionally, the Analyst must be able to work effectively within a matrixed organization to ensure that insights from other functional areas are understood and incorporated into work products.
What You Will Do:
Supports Managers and Senior Mangers by maintaining templates, systems, and other tools needed to develop forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans (2-3 years).
Completes updates of operating, program, and business unit scorecards and supports Managers in updating commentary and analysis for the scorecard updates.
Compiles data needed to perform root cause analysis, test & learn, and financial modeling; and supports Managers in conducting the analysis.
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.
Pursues self-development and effective relationships by openly sharing information and knowledge with coworkers and business partners; seeking performance feedback; and adapting to and learning from change.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
1 years of experience in finance or analytical role within a public company/accounting firm
Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Experience providing analytical support
Preferred Skills/Education
3 years of experience in finance or analytical role within a public company/accounting firm
Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Corporate Accounting
Experience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, MicroStrategy, Qlik, etc.
Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime
About Lowe’s
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
