Lowe's - Senior Analyst - Merch Finance/Cost Management & Global Sourcing Team

Senior Analyst - Merch Finance, Cost Management and Global Sourcing team

Job Summary:

The Snr. Analyst, Merch Finance, Cost Management and Global Sourcing team should have knowledge and hands on experience to play the following role:

- Help analyze impact of tariff and commodity prices on product cost

- Provide insights and recommendations to business for driving better negotiations with vendors

- Ensure on time and accurate delivery of all cost related requests

- Report, Monitor and analyze and report out business performance, financial results and other KPIs which define the business

- Be a go-to point for all data and insights needs for the business.

- Ability to present insights rather than providing numbers to business.

- Help with changes in reports and other modifications including conducting adhoc analysis and reports building as per business needs

- Communicate independently and effectively with stakeholders on scope of project, presenting results, reconciliation of data etc.

- Pursues self-development and effective relationships with team members and partners

Qualifications & Qualities:

- Graduate or post-graduate (MBA Finance Or degree in quantitative fields like Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics)

- 4-6 years of experience with 1-2 years with a Retail business

- Understanding of retail business particularly in area of product sourcing

- Experience of working on vendor cost management, price negotiation insights will be preferred

- Strong data collection, collation and cleansing skills using tools like SQL, SAS or other tools like R, Python

- Strong knowledge of advanced MS Excel

- Knowledge of any one of the data visualization tools like MicroStrategy, Tableau, PowerBI will be preferred

- Strong independent ownership and drive to make sure projects/deliverables are pushed through

- Strong communication skills - being able to manage upward, peers and offshore teams. Being able to translate business requirements to actionable deliverables