Lowe's India | Senior Analyst – Accounting Analytics & Reporting

Key responsibilities

• This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru.
• The Senior Analyst – Accounting Analytics & Reporting is responsible for partnering with Accounting leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, data-driven analytics and reporting solutions supporting the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) Office.
• This role combines accounting and financial analysis with strong technical and analytical capabilities to ensure accurate reporting, strengthen controls, improve operational visibility, and enable informed business decision-making.
• The role will also partner with business and technology teams to translate requirements into effective analytical solutions and identify opportunities to modernize and improve existing accounting processes.
• Perform accounting and financial analysis using large and complex datasets to identify trends, exceptions, variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities through reconciliations, accrual and journal-entry support, variance analysis, data validation, and analytical review.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance recurring accounting reports, dashboards, scorecards, and management reporting solutions.
• Perform reconciliations and data validations to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of accounting and financial information.
• Support and strengthen accounting controls, governance, compliance, and reporting accuracy through data-driven analysis and monitoring.
• Identify opportunities to automate and modernize manual accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and analytical processes to improve efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and operational controls.
• Design and develop scalable analytics, reporting, and automation solutions using SQL, Power BI, Excel, Python, and other data and automation technologies.
• Partner with Accounting stakeholders to understand business requirements, assess technical feasibility, and translate requirements into effective analytical and reporting solutions.
• Provide analytical support for ad-hoc business requests, special projects, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams on data, reporting, system modernization, automation, and process-enhancement initiatives.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of business rules, reporting methodologies, data definitions, processes, controls, and analytical solutions.
• Present analytical findings, risks, recommendations, and proposed solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide analytical and technical guidance to team members and business partners and contribute to the adoption of analytics and automation best practices across Accounting.
• Translate accounting and operational data into meaningful insights and actionable recommendations for Accounting leadership and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Accounting Analytics, Financial Analytics, Reporting & Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a related analytical function.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing large and complex datasets and translating analysis into actionable business insights.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams across locations.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently investigate issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting Accounting or Finance functions in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience with accounting processes including reconciliations, financial close, journal entries, variance analysis, financial controls, and management reporting.
• Experience with process automation, reporting modernization, and development of scalable analytical solutions.
• Python & Automation: Strong working knowledge of Python for data analysis, data transformation, automation, scripting, reconciliation, and development of custom analytical and process solutions.
• Power BI, DAX & Data Modeling: Strong experience developing end-to-end Power BI solutions, including data modeling, relationships, measures, DAX, Power Query, dashboard development, visualization, and reporting.
• Ability to translate complex datasets and business requirements into intuitive dashboards and actionable insights.
• Data Platforms & Databases: Experience working with enterprise data platforms and relational databases, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP)/BigQuery, MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to identify, integrate, validate, and analyze data across multiple data sources.
• Data Validation & Reconciliation: Experience performing data validation, reconciliations, exception analysis, and control checks to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of financial and accounting reporting.
• Microsoft Power Platform: Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Query, and SharePoint for developing workflow, reporting, and process-automation solutions.
• Excel: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for complex data analysis, financial/accounting analysis, reconciliations, reporting, and automation.
• Secondary / Preferred Technical Skills.
• Experience with ETL and data-transformation tools such as KNIME and/or Alteryx.
• Experience developing automated workflows and modernizing manual accounting and reporting processes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data environments, data pipelines, and enterprise analytics solutions.
• Attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Effective communication and data storytelling.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver independently.

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Lucius Smith Lowe opened Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware in North Carolina in 1921, and the business grew into a national chain of home improvement stores. Lowe's went public in 1961, has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1979 and is headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina. Its stores and website sell building materials, tools, appliances and home and garden products to homeowners and trade customers, and since selling its Canadian retail business in 2023 its stores are all in the United States. Lowe's set up an office in Bengaluru in 2014 to expand its analytics and technology work. Lowe's India Private Limited now operates from Manyata Embassy Business Park in Bengaluru, supporting the company in technology, data science and analytics, omnichannel platforms, supply chain, merchandising, marketing, and financial planning and analysis.

Finance hiring in Bengaluru is weighted towards internal audit, with staff, senior and lead senior auditor roles, including business SOX work, that ask for two to nine years of post-qualification experience. Other openings cover order-to-cash and collections, accounting analytics and reporting, and FP&A planning and forecasting. Seniority runs from associate roles needing two to three years to lead analyst and lead auditor roles. The FP&A role wants a qualified CA, CMA, CIMA or CFA, or an MBA in Finance, while the audit roles look for a degree in accounting or finance and prefer a CA, CPA, CIA or CISA.

• Industry: Home improvement retail: building materials, tools, appliances, and home and garden products sold through stores and online to homeowners and professional customers
• Headquarters: Mooresville, North Carolina, United States (Lowe's Companies, Inc., listed on the NYSE as LOW)
• In India: Lowe's India Private Limited at Manyata Embassy Business Park, Bengaluru; Lowe's set up its Bengaluru office in 2014