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Financial Analyst - Cost Optimization

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Hybrid
Mooresville, NC
Junior
Hybrid
Mooresville, NC
Junior
Partner with business units to translate plans into forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans; maintain scorecards and templates; compile data and support root-cause analysis, financial modeling, and performance optimization; collaborate cross-functionally and support Senior/Lead Analysts.
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Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to partner with functional business partners and business units as a financial subject matter expert in support of core company focus areas. This is accomplished by cross-functional collaboration to convert complex business plans into quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and long range plans; develop and maintain scorecards; develop business cases; and provide proactive analysis, insights, and recommendations to optimize business performance. To accomplish this, the Analyst must have knowledge of financial and business analytics principles. This individual will collaborate with Finance peers to ensure that insights from functional areas and business units are understood and incorporated into work products. Additionally, the Analyst must be able to work effectively within a matrixed organization to ensure that insights from other functional areas are understood and incorporated into work products.
What You Will Do
  • Supports Senior and Lead Analysts by maintaining templates, systems, and other tools needed to develop quarterly forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans (2-3 years).
  • Completes updates of operating, program, and business unit scorecards and supports Senior and Lead Analysts in updating commentary and analysis for the scorecard updates.
  • Compiles data needed to perform root cause analysis, test & learn, and financial modeling; and supports Senior and Lead Analysts in conducting the analysis.
  • 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.
  • Pursues self-development and effective relationships by openly sharing information and knowledge with coworkers and business partners; seeking performance feedback; and adapting to and learning from change.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
  • 1 Year Experience in finance or analytical role within a public company/accounting firm
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Experience providing analytical support

Preferred Skills/Education
  • 3 Years Experience in finance or analytical role within a public company/accounting firm
  • Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Corporate Accounting
  • Experience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, Microstrategy, Qlik, etc
  • Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime

About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .
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.

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