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About Lowes Lowe s Companies Inc NYSE LOW is a FORTUNE xc2 xae 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U S With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over 97 billion approximately 92 billion of sales were generated in the U S where Lowe s operates over 1 700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300 000 associates Based in Mooresville N C Lowe s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts About Lowes India At Lowe s India we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our 97 billion home improvement business at Lowe s Our 4000 associates work across technology analytics business operations finance accounting product management and shared services We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowe s has a competitive edge in the market Job Summary -This position will be a critical business partner This includes among other things responsibility for financial metrics reporting forecasting and analysis The successful candidate will be strategic analytical and focus on providing data driven business and financial insights to the relevant stakeholders that will enable sound decision making Ideate contribute to and ensure delivery and perfect execution of projects through effectively allocating distributing and planning work with team membersContribute to a high-performance team that will build monitor and report out business performance financial results and deliver ad hoc projects by following best practices towards building a state-of-the-art delivery organizationBuild robust processes to ensure 100 accuracy and timely analysis for Asset protectionPerform financial reporting ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling to improve the shrink and chargeback performance of the organizationDrive projects that provide answers to strategic and tactical business questions - sometimes with very basic problem statement dealing with ambiguity Quickly grasp the business problem and translates into tangible usable actionable outputsKnowledge of multiple approaches to tackle problems and recommending suitable approach based on facts figures data Ability to story-tell why what how enabling decision makingManage the financial planning and analysis effort forecasting using the key input levers to the business - pricing promotion weather business landscape and such that play a key role in retail dynamicsDevelop ad hoc business analysis scenario analysis and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives Work with business partners and others in SSC-B and SSC-M to constantly find opportunities leverage commonalities and ensure proactive solution building and deliveryEstablish and maintain operating and business metrics Work with accounting team to drive the monthly quarterly and annual close process as requiredPursues self-development and effective relationships with others by organizing resources and information openly sharing information advice and expertise with coworkers and customers influencing others through technical explanations and examples seeking performance feedback adapting to and learning from change difficulties and feedbackBasic QualificationsBachelor s Masters degree in finance accounting business and or Chartered Accountant OR MBA2 years of experienceGood understanding in MS Excel Power BI and SQLStrong Data collation compilation visualization skillsAbility to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environmentHaving the ability to convert nomenclatures from finance into business and vice-versaStrong retail business understandingStrong influencing abilitiesSuperior liaising project management co-ordination planning and facilitating skillsSuperior communication skills - being able to manage upward peers and offshore teams Lowe s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race color religious creed sex gender age ancestry national origin mental or physical disability or medical condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status military or veteran status genetic information or any other category protected under federal state or local law