Sr Financial Analyst - FP&A

Lowe’s is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to strengthen FP&A planning, forecasting, and performance reporting in a role that partners closely with functional leaders and business units. Based in Mooresville, NC on an onsite basis, this position helps turn financial and operational data into clear analysis, models, and business-ready insights.

What you’ll do

• Facilitate financial forecasting and planning with functional partners and business units to support quarterly forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans, including performance reporting and commentary.
• Support financial modeling and business analytics to respond to P&L-related questions.
• Help develop expense plans using agreed assumptions including volume, rate, growth, and transportation costs; troubleshoot questions and reconciliations and coordinate with data owners to obtain needed answers.
• Partner across the business to deliver root cause analysis and actionable insights drawn from financial and non-financial data.
• Communicate insights to leaders by preparing analyses from multiple data sources, proactively sourcing inputs for analysis, and supporting operational and financial storytelling.
• Analyze forecast and business case accuracy by identifying root causes, applying lessons to future reporting, and translating findings into clear themes, complete, consistent insights, and recommendations.
• Develop business cases for key initiatives and major programs using robust financial models tied to a program’s strategic narrative, including identifying organizational risks, engaging business owners in risk mitigation and trade-offs, and defining key trigger metrics that indicate initiative success.
• Apply financial and business analytics principles across deliverables by leveraging knowledge of policies, data, and resources, collaborating cross-functionally to solve business problems, and identifying, recommending, and implementing improvement opportunities.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field (or equivalent years of experience where applicable).
• 3+ years of experience in finance or an analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or related.
• Experience 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.

Tools and technologies

• Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime, PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, Microstrategy, Qlik, SQL, Teradata, Hadoop, Presto, TM1, Hyperion, Essebase, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, SSIS

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in finance or an analytical role with a public company, public accounting, or related.
• Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Supply Chain Finance, or related.
• Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime.
• Experience with BI tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, Microstrategy, Qlik, and others.
• Experience with SQL and familiarity with enterprise-grade environments such as Teradata, Hadoop, Presto.
• Experience with ERP-based systems and multi-dimensional databases such as TM1, Hyperion, or Essebase.
• Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Teradata, SSIS, and related).
• Certifications: CPA, CFA, or CMA.