Manager, Cost Insights & Analytics

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

About Lowe's India

Lowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes India

About Team

The Cost Analytics team supports all analytical and data requirements that supports the accounting function – specifically Margin & Cost, Vendor Funding, Imports, Trade Payables and Transporation Accounting. Leveraging firm’s tech stack, the team works on varied problem statement and help in providing an optimum solution to end users

Job Summary

The Manager is primarily responsible for leading a team dedicated to the accounting function for Lowe’s US operation in design, development and delivery business intelligence solutions. The principle purpose of the Manager is to work with the Business Leadership in delivering impactful data driven analytics support to the COA office. This position is responsible for designing the report to business needs with analytical best practices, facilitate to analyze results and identify insights for decision making. A substantial amount of technical knowledge is needed to support the various user requests and special projects.

This is accomplished by utilizing advanced tools and methods to leverage various financial data. A goal of this position is automation of processes and enhancements of existing business analytics. To accomplish this, decent knowledge of cost and financial analytics, be proficient in MS Access, MS Excel, VBA, SQL, Teradata, Knime/Alteryx, Power Apps, Power Query, Power BI, Hadoop (Big data), Google Cloud Platform, Python, R etc is required.

The Manager will collaborate directly with various areas of accounting teams and other areas of the Business in order to ensure Inventory, Revenue and Margin are reported accurately both from an Operational and Financial perspective. The position will possess analytical problem-solving, ability to synthesize multiple data points, will demonstrate the ability wrap multiple data points into a cohesive story and strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

• Partner with domain leaders to understand the requirements and deliver right set of solutions
• Lead and mentor a team of BI analysts and developers
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and data literacy
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security across all reporting platforms
• Present insights and findings to stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• Create solutions addressing the specific challenge using various tools
• Create and maintain documentation of processes
• Act as a consultant to end users for recommendation on tools and technical feasibility
• Guide the team in key business knowledge areas and technical architecture
• Work allocation and delivery management with maintaining high accuracy of all reports and analysis
• Drive initiatives aimed at bringing in innovative ideas to current processes

Years of Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in the domain of Reporting & Analytics
• 3+ years of experience in leadership/managerial role

Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Analytics, Engineering or Business Intelligence
• Postgraduate in Finance/ Business Analytics will be an added advantage
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across locations.

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have)

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Understanding of relational databases – Teradata, IBM DB2, Hadoop, Google Cloud Platform
• Expertise in SQL – DDL & DML – Joins, Partition, Update, Stored Procedures, Query tuning, etc
• Advance MS Excel and MS Access experience including VBA Macros – LOOPS, Arrays, functions, procedures, User Forms, dynamic querying, Objects, Collections, Exception handling etc
• Experience working with analytical tools like Python- Pandas, NumPy, PyOdbc,dateTime, etc
• Exposure to ETL tools like Alteryx and Knime
• Ability to create charts/visualization that aptly represents the trends and analysis
• Experience with Business Intelligence and Reporting tools, preferably in Power BI
• Analytical mindset to understand and solve complex business problem
• Self-motivated, strong leadership skills and excellent verbal/written skills

Secondary Skills (desired)

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS
• Experience in Web Apps using React Framework
• Exposure to API concepts using NodeJS