Finance Manager, FP&A — Strategic Forecasting Leader

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe’s Mooresville HQ is seeking a Manager Finance to partner with senior leaders, translate business plans into forecasts and budgets, and lead a team across finance and other functions. You will develop business cases, build robust financial models, and drive improvements in performance analytics.

The role requires mentoring junior staff and influencing across a matrix organization. This position emphasizes strategic thinking, communication, and delivering actionable insights to optimize

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement
• 6 years Experience in finance or analytical role in public company or accounting
• 1 year Experience with financial forecasting or analytical modeling
• Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross-functional collaboration
• Previous experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance or Corporate Accounting
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Responsibilities

• Develops Senior Specialist, Analyst, and Senior Analyst talent by managing and prioritizing day-to-day workload and direction; reviewing work output and providing feedback; coaching and mentoring on strengths and opportunities.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) and thought leader on respective team.
• 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 (2-3 years).
• Collaborates across the business 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 analysis and insights to leaders by preparing analyses through leveraging multiple data sources; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights & recommendations; translating insights into clear, understandable themes.
• 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.
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models, tied to a program’s (or initiative’s) strategic narrative; identifying risks to the organization and engaging the business owner in risk mitigation and trade-off conversations; identifying and measuring key trigger points (metrics) that will provide business insight into an initiative’s success (leading and final indicators).

Skills

Financial forecasting

Analytical modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint)

FP&A

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance/Economics

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Lowe’s Mooresville HQ is seeking a Manager Finance to partner with senior leaders, translate business plans into forecasts and budgets, and lead a team across finance and other functions. You will develop business cases, build robust financial models, and drive improvements in performance analytics.

The role requires mentoring junior staff and influencing across a matrix organization. This position emphasizes strategic thinking, communication, and delivering actionable insights to optimize