
Contractors’ Warehouse —
Sr Financial Analyst Consolidations
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req147053
Category – Finance/Accounting
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Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req147053
Category – Finance/Accounting
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Position Purpose:
The Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidations is a critical role within The Home Depot’s (the “Company’s”) Controllership Team. This position has primary responsibility for ensuring accurate reporting across all of the Company’s legal entities, including financial statements at the end of each reporting period. This position will assist in formulating governance, policies and leading practice over the legal entity reporting function.
The role will own controllership of the following areas: legal entity financial reporting; compliance with accounting policies and SOX controls, as applicable; statutory financial statement preparation and audit coordination; and leadership for understanding and reviews of key legal entity accounting areas, including intercompany-related transactions and eliminations, balance sheet and income statement variances, other comprehensive income, and the foreign exchange process, among others.
The role will also work with business partners to develop an understanding of the legal entity landscape at the Company and ultimately lead the design and planning for the legal entity forecast, including owning certain intercompany forecast calculations.
The Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidations will provide support to our accounting and finance partners in both generating meaningful financial data and the analysis of this data. Additionally, the role will work with cross functional teams to lead various initiatives to optimize reporting processes and strengthen internal controls over financial reporting. This position will further assist in leading the Consolidations team to automate and improve operational processes while creating innovative solutions to drive efficiency in month end close, legal entity financial statement preparation and analysis, intercompany reporting, and other accounting areas. This role will also support several strategic initiatives as the Company transforms the finance organization and moves to new digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Oversee the administration of financial policies.
- 25% Conducts special financial studies and coordinates with other departments in the preparation of statistical studies.
- 25% Performs internal and external economic research and analyzes issues related to specific financial metrics to ensure competitiveness
- 5% Compiles or prepares reports, graphs and charts of data developed.
- 10% Recommends changes in financial analysis methods or procedures.
- 10% Assists and supervises Financial Analysts in the daily preparation and conduct of their work.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
-
This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
-
This Position has 0 direct reports.
Travel Requirements:
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Typically requires overnight travel less than 5% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
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Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
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Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Must be 18 years of age or older
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Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting or related discipline
- Three to five years of experience working with accounting and reporting of legal entities, process improvements, collaborating with cross functional teams, and evaluating processes
- Experience in a complex legal entity environment in a global organization
- Previous experience in an SAP environment
- Certified Public Accountant
Minimum Education:
-
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
-
No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
-
2
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
-
No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
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No previous leadership experience
Preferred Leadership Experience:
-
No previous leadership experience
Certifications:
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None
Competencies:
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Action Oriented
-
Decision Quality
-
Self-Development
-
Collaborates
-
Communicates Effectively
-
Drives Results
-
Financial Acumen
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req147053
Category – Finance/Accounting
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
The Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidations is a critical role within The Home Depot’s (the “Company’s”) Controllership Team. This position has primary responsibility for ensuring accurate reporting across all of the Company’s legal entities, including financial statements at the end of each reporting period. This position will assist in formulating governance, policies and leading practice over the legal entity reporting function.
The role will own controllership of the following areas: legal entity financial reporting; compliance with accounting policies and SOX controls, as applicable; statutory financial statement preparation and audit coordination; and leadership for understanding and reviews of key legal entity accounting areas, including intercompany-related transactions and eliminations, balance sheet and income statement variances, other comprehensive income, and the foreign exchange process, among others.
The role will also work with business partners to develop an understanding of the legal entity landscape at the Company and ultimately lead the design and planning for the legal entity forecast, including owning certain intercompany forecast calculations.
The Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidations will provide support to our accounting and finance partners in both generating meaningful financial data and the analysis of this data. Additionally, the role will work with cross functional teams to lead various initiatives to optimize reporting processes and strengthen internal controls over financial reporting. This position will further assist in leading the Consolidations team to automate and improve operational processes while creating innovative solutions to drive efficiency in month end close, legal entity financial statement preparation and analysis, intercompany reporting, and other accounting areas. This role will also support several strategic initiatives as the Company transforms the finance organization and moves to new digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% Oversee the administration of financial policies.
- 25% Conducts special financial studies and coordinates with other departments in the preparation of statistical studies.
- 25% Performs internal and external economic research and analyzes issues related to specific financial metrics to ensure competitiveness
- 5% Compiles or prepares reports, graphs and charts of data developed.
- 10% Recommends changes in financial analysis methods or procedures.
- 10% Assists and supervises Financial Analysts in the daily preparation and conduct of their work.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
-
This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
-
This Position has 0 direct reports.
Travel Requirements:
-
Typically requires overnight travel less than 5% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
-
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
-
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
-
Must be 18 years of age or older
-
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting or related discipline
- Three to five years of experience working with accounting and reporting of legal entities, process improvements, collaborating with cross functional teams, and evaluating processes
- Experience in a complex legal entity environment in a global organization
- Previous experience in an SAP environment
- Certified Public Accountant
Minimum Education:
-
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
-
No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
-
2
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
-
No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
-
No previous leadership experience
Preferred Leadership Experience:
-
No previous leadership experience
Certifications:
-
None
Competencies:
-
Action Oriented
-
Decision Quality
-
Self-Development
-
Collaborates
-
Communicates Effectively
-
Drives Results
-
Financial Acumen
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Work From Home – Location Specific – An associate in this role primarily works from home but is assigned a THD location and is periodically required to report to their in-office location. Associates must live within the same state and within a commutable distance of their assigned THD location.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Store Location
GA01
VIRTUAL
Atlanta, GA
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