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 plan 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 that result 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 agreed upon 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; identify and proactively source necessary inputs for analysis; support operational and financial storytelling.Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy for root causes issues and apply these learnings to future reports; translates findings into clear, understandable themes; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights and recommendations.Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models tied to an initiative’s strategic narrativeApplies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables; leverages an understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborates cross functionally to solve business problems; identifies, recommends, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 3-5 Years Experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or relatedExperience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross-functional collaborationExperience with financial forecasting or analytic modeling and report automation

Preferred Skills/Education

Master's Degree Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5-7 Years Experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or relatedExperience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Supply Chain Finance or related fieldExperience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, KnimeStrongExperience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, Microstrategy, Qlik, etc.Experience with SQL and familiarity of enterprise-grade environment (Teradata, Hadoop, Presto)Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based systems, multi-dimensional databases, such as TM1, Hyperion or EssebaseExperience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Teradata, SSIS, Svr.)Certified Public Accountant (CPA)Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 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.