Finance Manager - Supply Chain FP&A

Finance Manager – Supply Chain FP&A

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

The primary purpose of this role is to partner with complex and highly visible areas of the business and/or work in support of initiatives aligned with the Company's strategy and 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.

The Manager Finance is responsible for acting as a subject‑matter expert and thought leader on the respective team, as well as taking on the responsibility of mentoring and developing junior team members. To do this, the Manager Finance must have strong knowledge of financial and business analytics principles, and the ability to leverage a matrixed environment to manage projects and analyses to completion by leveraging talent across Finance and other business areas.

The Manager Finance should also possess the ability to influence and interact with senior leaders at the Company.

• Develop 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.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert (SME) and thought leader on the respective team.
• Facilitate 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).
• Collaborate across the business to provide root‑cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non‑financial data to functional partners and business units.
• Communicate financial and non‑financial analysis and insights to leaders by preparing analyses through leveraging multiple data sources; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights and recommendations; translating insights into clear, understandable themes.
• Complete 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.
• Develop business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models, tied to a program’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).

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable.
• 6 years of experience in finance or analytical role in a public company or accounting.
• 1 year of experience with financial forecasting or analytical modeling.
• Experience in 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 (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

• Master’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Experience leading people directly or indirectly.
• Experience developing and managing operational initiatives to deliver results.
• Experience managing the implementation of mid‑size projects, programs or processes.
• Experience working in a big‑box/large retailer.
• Experience working at a Fortune 500 company.

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a Fortune 100 home‑improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week, with total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over…