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Job Description
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 capture moderately complex financial activities and resolve issues in accounting records to enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. This includes responsibility for conducting effective research, managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing work on financial activities to ensure accounting records are correct. In addition, this role executes internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting, by working independently to apply experienced accounting judgment and knowledge of GAAP and regulatory requirements in daily activity.
What You Will Do
- Execute financial activities in a timely and efficient manner, with a focus on activities that require applying practiced knowledge of moderately complex systems, business processes, and GAAP principles to unique situations
- Prepare and evaluate reports to ensure accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
- Perform analysis (i.e. historical, forecasting, impact, etc.) and reconciliations to support monthly, quarterly and annual closing cycles according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations
- Review reports, analysis and reconciliations prepared by Accountants to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
- Research various financial activities to identify moderately complex issues, explaining findings to principal accountants, managers, and directors to determine resolution
- Manage small projects/initiatives and/or participates in broader projects, working with and directing teams within a finance function to deliver the best solutions to financial issues
- Maintain appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for accounting transactions and entries
- Communicate effectively within the team, across other functions, and with external parties to ensure alignment
- Partner with team and the business in order to identify transaction issues and procedure improvement opportunities to more-effectively support the needs of the Finance organization
- At times, mentor and train accountants in the development of moderately complex skills, knowledge of key principles, regulations, etc.
- Work with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions and alignment to provide required data and information to ensure accuracy
- Execute testing around financial controls to provide documentation and support for SOX compliance in respective financial area
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
- 4 years experience in accounting, tax, finance (public or private) or relevant experience
- Demonstrated understanding of intermediate
GAAP concepts and financial controls (to apply this knowledge to the design and execution of activities within the respective area)
- Advanced skills in MS office programs (Excel, Word, Access)
Preferred Skills/Education
- Master’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field
- Lowe's accounting or finance experience
- CPA or CPA candidate
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](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowes.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Carthur.murphy%40lowes.com%7C72b42b872afb4e40f58208de8e95380c%7Cbcfa3e87841e48c7983b584159dd1a69%7C0%7C0%7C639104968707641204%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=H2T7tOQuTqh%2FY3act7eCJi679Fl2OaNaVICOd96Mcnc%3D&reserved=0).
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.
Key Responsibilities
Execute financial activities applying GAAP principles and business process knowledge
Prepare and evaluate reports to ensure accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
Perform historical, forecasting, and impact analysis and reconciliations for closing cycles
Review reports and reconciliations prepared by other accountants
Research financial activities to identify and resolve moderately complex issues
Manage small projects and direct teams within the finance function
Maintain supporting documents and provisions for accounting transactions
Communicate effectively with internal teams and external parties
Partner with the business to identify transaction issues and procedure improvements
Mentor and train accountants on complex skills and regulations
Work with external auditors to provide required data and ensure accuracy
Execute testing around financial controls for SOX compliance
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Business
Finance
Economics
Accounting or related field
Skills Required
GAAPFinancial controlsMS OfficeExcelWordAccessCommunicationProblem solvingAttention to detailLeadershipMentoringLowe's accounting or finance experience
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k) match
Unlimited PTO
Equity
Remote work
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