Senior Analyst, Online Business/E-commerce & Analytics

About Lowe s
Lowes Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowes operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

About Lowe s India
At Lowes India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowes. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowes has a competitive edge in the market.

We are looking for an Analyst / Sr Analyst Finance, Digital Business, who can understand Online Retail Business and drive data-based decisions.
To be successful one should have :
Strong understanding of online retail operations financial concepts.
Basic understanding of SQL, BI, data analytics data visualization methods to shorten fatigue effort in development
Have a high bias towards accurate timely delivery
Focus on robust analysis that can be actioned by business
Understand and be able to translate operational technology metrics into financial impact

About the Team

The team partners with the Digital e-Commerce (Lowes.com) teams to drive business outcomes in a financially prudent manner. It is responsible for providing analyses, insights and reporting that help identify drivers of performance and guide appropriate tactical actions to improve financial outcomes.

The team is tasked to deliver insightful and proactive financial analysis that drive fact based, data driven decision making around the digital business.

Core Responsibilities:

• Reporting analysing Online business performance from various angles and surfacing insights for Executive reviews

• Learning and exploring data with focus on understanding business drivers and identifying forward-looking opportunities

• Communicating complex analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing.

• Metrics and Reports - Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.

• Collaborating across analytics finance teams to learn, identify existing tools that can be leveraged / tweaked for business problems to ensure time spent on analysis speed of delivery

• Has inclination is to learn modern forecasting analysis techniques that use statistical packages like R / Python

Required Qualifications:

• Strong financial modeling, Analysis and Excel skills.

• 2-5 years of prior experience in retail analytics/ financial analytics.

• 1 year of experience working as a member of a online retail or relevant cross-functional team

• 1 year of experience analyzing data to detect trends, make recommendations, and provide reporting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in retail domain.

• Experience collaborating across time zones

• Experience working in a large matrixed organization

• Experience supporting large technology programs

Primary Skills (must have)

• Working experience in financial analytics preferably in Retail/Online business.

• Basic understanding of SQL for data querying.

• working experience with BI tools (Power BI, Microstrategy, Qlikview, Datastudio, Tableau etc)

Secondary Skills (desired)

• Prior experience of using Adobe Analytics for web analytics

• Understanding experience in Python / R based analytical packages

• Good background in statistical modelling

Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.