Finance Project Leader - Core Merchandising

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot in Atlanta, GA seeks a Finance Project Leader to drive strategic financial initiatives aligned with merchandising goals and growth. You will evaluate performance, forecast outcomes, and translate data into insights for executives.

Collaborating across functions, you will help steer decision-making and ensure successful execution of key programs while maintaining a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent
• 3+ years in corporate finance and/or retail
• MBA preferred
• Strong knowledge of Excel, Access and PowerPoint
• Legally permitted to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic financial projects that support merchandising objectives and business growth.
• Evaluate financial performance, develop forecasts, and identify opportunities and risks.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for executive leadership.
• Partner across the organization to drive sound financial decisions and successful execution of initiatives.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Independence

Influence

Education

MBA

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Finance Project Leader leads strategic projects that support merchandising objectives and business growth. This role is responsible for evaluating financial performance, developing forecasts, identifying opportunities and risks, and translating complex data into actionable insights for executive leadership. By partnering across the organization, the Finance Project Leader helps drive sound financial decisions and successful execution of key initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% PROJECT CONTROL - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes
• are implemented.
• 30% PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership.
• 10% PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of
• risks and takes timely action to elevate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
• 10% PROJECT LESSONS LEARNED - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.
• 10% PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and
• responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Sr Finance Manager.
• This role has no direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Access, and Powerpoint
• MBA
• Prior experience in corporate finance and/or retail

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
• Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.