Senior Accountant

Your Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to capture moderately complex financial activities for Lowe's Foundation and resolve issues in accounting records to enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis and to assist with the Lowe's Foundation tax reporting requirements. This includes responsibility for conducting effective research, managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing work on financial activities according to various international, federal, state, and local obligations 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.

• 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 principle 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.
• Mentor and trains lower-level accounting employees in the development of accounting skills, knowledge of key principles, regulations, etc.
• Work with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions 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.

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
• 4 years of 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)

• Lowe's accounting or finance experience preferred