Finance Manager — FP&A & Strategic Initiatives

Lowe's; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Finance to collaborate with senior leaders at our Mooresville headquarters, driving quarterly forecasts, annual plans, and long-range strategies. You will mentor analysts, serve as a SME in finance analytics, and partner across functions to optimize performance.

The role emphasizes developing business cases, robust financial models, and data-driven insights to influence strategic decisions in a matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field (or equivalent years of experience).
• At least 6 years of experience in finance or analytical role in a public company or accounting.
• At least 1 year of experience with financial forecasting or analytical modeling.
• Experience 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 (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

Finance analytics

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Job description

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Finance to collaborate with senior leaders at our Mooresville headquarters, driving quarterly forecasts, annual plans, and long-range strategies. You will mentor analysts, serve as a SME in finance analytics, and partner across functions to optimize performance.

The role emphasizes developing business cases, robust financial models, and data-driven insights to influence strategic decisions in a matrixed environment.