Senior Accountant (Corporate Accounting Services)

Job Description

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The primary purpose of this role is to capture moderately complex financial activities and resolve issues in accounting records to enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. This includes responsibility for conducting effective research, managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing work on financial activities according to various international, federal, state, and local obligations to ensure accounting records are correct. In addition, this role executes internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting, by working independently to apply experienced accounting judgment and knowledge of GAAP and regulatory requirements in daily activity.

​RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENTS:

• Executes financial activities in a timely and efficient manner, with a focus on activities that require applying practiced knowledge of moderately complex systems, business processes, and GAAP principles to unique situations
• Prepares and evaluates reports to ensure accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
• Performs analysis (i.e. historical, forecasting, impact, etc.) and reconciliations to support monthly, quarterly and annual closing cycles according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations
• Reviews reports, analysis and reconciliations prepared by Accountants to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
• Researches various financial activities to identify moderately complex issues, explaining findings to principle accountants, managers, and directors to determine resolution
• Manages small projects/initiatives and/or participates in broader projects, working with and directing teams within a finance function to deliver the best solutions to financial issues
• Maintains appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for accounting transactions and entries
• Communicates effectively within the team, across other functions, and with external parties to ensure alignment
• Partners with team and the business in order to identify transaction issues and procedure improvement opportunities to more-effectively support the needs of the Finance organization
• Mentors and trains lower level accounting employees in the development of accounting skills, knowledge of key principles, regulations, etc.
• Works with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions to provide required data and information to ensure accuracy
• Executes testing around financial controls to provide documentation and support for SOX compliance in respective financial area

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance and a minimum of 2 years of experience in accounting (public or private) or relevant experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to accomplish necessary tasks
• Demonstrated understanding of intermediate GAAP concepts and financial controls (to apply this knowledge to the design and execution of activities within the respective area)

PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE :

• Master's Degree in Accounting or Finance and a minimum of 1+ years of experience in accounting (public or private)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or CPA candidate
• Advanced skills in MS office programs (Excel, Word, Access)
• Lowe's finance or accounting experience
• Experience with Accounting in foreign Currency a plus

About Lowe’s:

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving more than 18 million customers a week in the United States, Canada and Mexico. With fiscal year 2018 sales of $71.3 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ approximately 300,000 associates. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports its hometown Charlotte region and all communities it serves through programs focused on safe, affordable housing and careers in the skilled trades. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
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