Finance Project Leader - Private Brands

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Project Leader, Finance to drive key financial projects for the Private Brands organization. You will maintain financial models for import costs from global suppliers to the United States and deliver insights to support strategic decisions.

You will partner with Private Brands leadership, delivering reporting and analyses to assist with planning. The role involves travel less than 10% and requires strong Excel, SQL, and data visualization skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
• SQL knowledge and data visualization experience (Tableau or similar).
• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead project control including scope, schedule and cost; document changes and baselines.
• Coordinate project communications and prepare status reports and leadership presentations.
• Lead project risk assessment and mitigation planning.
• Capture lessons learned and apply to future projects.
• Foster an inclusive, well-staffed project environment.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive summaries

Independent work

Influence stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

SQL

Tableau

Python

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

The Project Leader, Finance role is responsible for leading key financial projects and providing analysis that supports strategic business decisions within the Private Brands organization. This position plays a critical role in managing and maintaining the financial models used to calculate the costs associated with importing products from global suppliers into the United States. The individual will ensure cost assumptions, rates, and tariff impacts are accurately reflected in financial models and will update reporting as global trade conditions change.

In addition, this role serves as a key partner to Private Brands leadership by delivering reporting, financial insights, and analysis that support business planning and decision-making.

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 upscale 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
• Intermediate to advanced SQL knowledge, including experience querying and analyzing large datasets.
• Experience with Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
• Python experience a plus, but not required.

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.