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

Key responsibilities

• 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 India

Lowe's India is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Together, we deliver the right home improvement products, with the best service and value, across every channel and community we serve."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Bengaluru.