Job Description

About Lowe's

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where 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 and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

About Lowe's India

At Lowe's India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowe's. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance & accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowe's has a competitive edge in the market.

Job Summary:

• This role will be responsible for partnering directly with Store Finance leaders to deliver insightful and proactive financial analysis that drive fact based, data driven decision making, challenge the status quo and dive deep to solve complex business problems.

• The primary purpose of this role is to build and deliver reporting and data driven solutions to Store Finance Team in the areas of impact measurement, risk/opportunities forecast, and optimize monitoring tools to enable better decision making

• The successful candidate will be a creative thinker with a strong bias to action that has the ability to collaborate across multiple groups Finance, Business, Accounting, Tech and Systems Teams. This role requires a self-starter with strong financial and problem-solving skills. The candidate should have a proven track record of influencing and supporting decisions in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop & deliver insightful financial reporting, dashboards/Scorecards, and analyses for leadership teams, automate reporting, and optimize reporting architecture to reside within sustainable systems such as PowerBI, DART, MicroStrategy, etc.
• Build complex financial models and analytical tools, perform sensitivity and Scenario analysis, risk and Impact assessment
• Provide tactical support for key Executive meetings, Monthly Business meetings
• Support teams during key financial and business processes (Annual/Strategic Plan, Forecast, etc.)
• Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling
• Focus to ensure 100% accuracy and timely analysis
• Work with business partners and teams in an onshore-offshore model through effective collaboration
• Knowledge of working scenario-based analysis / multiple approaches to tackle problems and recommending a suitable approach based on facts, figures, data. Ability to story-tell (why/what/how) enabling decision making
• Establish and maintain operating and business metrics.
• Work across teams to drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, as required

Years of Experience:

• 5-8 years of prior experience in a finance or analytical role, preferably 3 years in a Retail domain

Education Qualification & Certifications

• Graduate (B.Tech/BE/B.Sc.) or Master's in Analytics, Finance, or related Quantitative fields
• Certification course in Business Analytics

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have):

• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple competing priorities, experience working cross-functionally and with multiple stakeholders across locations
• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills
• Exceptional analytical skills; highly detail oriented
• Prior FP&A experience
• Proficient in Excel (Power Pivots, Power Query, VBA) and PowerPoint
• Advanced PowerBI working knowledge
• Strong data collection, collation, and cleansing skills using SQL, R/Python
• Ability to see the bigger picture by connecting dots between multiple projects driven within the team
• Exceptional analytical skills, highly detail-oriented, strong communication and interpersonal skills

Secondary Skills (desired)

• Effectively manage multiple projects and stakeholders to prioritize projects with the most impact on
• operational goals
• In-depth knowledge of diverse retail functions and principles

•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.•