At Lowe's India, we are seeking a dynamic and passionate Leader to lead the Global FP&A team. Global FP&A team in Bangalore is responsible for Reporting Governance & Excellence; Executive Insights & Analysis; FP&A Modernization; Planning & Forecasting and Measurement functions.

- This team is responsible to working with the functional Finance groups to pull together a holistic view of business performance and outlook, analyze emerging trends that inform executive decisions, and work with finance partners to drive the financial measurement of the company's strategic priorities.

- This position will be a critical business partner and a part of the leadership team. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, planning & forecasting and analysis. The successful candidate will be exceptionally strategic, analytical, and focus on providing data driven business and financial insights to the relevant stakeholders that will enable sound decision making.

- This role will lead a large team of finance professionals responsible for accomplishing these priorities. The Leader will work closely with functional finance teams across enterprise to help identify and drive actions needed to meet financial commitments.

- Lead, ideate, contribute to and ensure delivery and perfect execution of projects through effectively allocating, distributing and planning work with team members

- Contribute 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 organization

- Build robust processes to ensure 100% accuracy and timely analysis

- Significantly contribute value during the financial review meetings and working with HQ Global FP&A leadership to ensure effective finance and cost management in line with approved budgets / forecasts / outlook

- Drive 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 outputs

- Recommending suitable approach to problem solve based on facts, figures, data. Ability to story-tell with impact (why/what/how) enabling decision making and influence

- Manage 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 dynamics

- Present business analyses and recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives

- Work with business partners and others in Bengaluru and Moorseville, U.S. to constantly find opportunities, leverage commonalities and ensure proactive solution building and delivery

- Establish and maintain operating and business metrics

- Challenge status-quo and bring in diverse perspectives to solve complex business problems with a keen sense of curiosity, understanding customer needs and delivering the objective with superior output

- Hands-on working with the teams and providing adequate guidance, context and help them succeed together

- Pursues 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 feedback

- People management responsibilities - including hiring, engagement, talent assessments and management, appraisals and retention

- Proven track record of managing a team with competing priorities and providing clear guidance in a fast-paced, high-energy environment

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in finance, accounting, business and/or Chartered Accountant, MBA

- 12-20 years of experience with at least 7+ years in a leadership role within Financial Planning and Analysis

- Strong Data Visualization and Business Intelligence & Reporting skills (ex. Tableau; MicroStrategy; TM1; Hyperion/Essbase; Teradata; Cognos etc.)

- Ability to adapt in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment and work independently managing multiple competing priorities

- Strong finance and business acumen. Having the ability to convert nomenclatures from finance into business and vice-versa

- Strong financial modeling and Excel skills

- Exceptional analytical skills; highly detail oriented

- Strong retail business understanding and know-how preferred

- Strong influencing abilities

- Superior liaising, project management, co-ordination, planning and facilitating skills

- Superior communication skills - being able to manage upward, peers and offshore teams.

Preferred Qualifications

- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations. Coach, mentor, nurture talent and build a winning culture

- Strong interpersonal / liaising skills emphasizing written and oral communication

- Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving- connecting the dots, the big picture and the - why-

- Advanced knowledge of Excel, VBA, Automation

- Analytical skills- querying using SQL, SAS, Python

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