Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Posting for Future Opportunities only

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis

Do you have a learning mindset? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment that doesn’t settle for the status quo? Would working in a highly collaborative and relationship driven company that values respect for everyone excite you? Look no further than Home Depot Canada.

We are the trusted finance partners working collaboratively to identify problems, find efficacies and drive results. As a senior financial analyst, you are the key person influencing decisions for key business leaders through financial data and insights, and serve as the main point of contact to provide findings and recommendations to our senior leadership team and CFO.

Responsible For

Acting as the CFO for their business working directly with management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations and develop reports to drive the business
Prepare and present complex financial analysis in a meaningful, concise and user friendly manner for senior management
Ability to think strategically , leading semi-annual planning activities in partnership with the other finance teams and internal business stakeholders to support division’s strategic planning
Influencing and driving business actions through value added analysis/insights to both technical and non-technical audience
Providing thought leadership and recommendations for identifying and implementing process improvements
Sharing and implementing best practices among the team and the finance group
Represent functional area as an analytics & insights professional and key resource; build positive and productive working partnerships
Oversee and/or independently perform tasks from end to end
Execute on data requests accurately and within a timely manner
Act as a bridge to translate business requirements to analytics and reporting needs for a given domain
Applying your creative problem solving skills to build new and supplemental reporting methods
Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights and identify areas of business opportunities
Supports data science projects by conducting effective analysis to solve business problems
Consults with Data Scientist or Sr. Data Scientist on appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies
Apply understanding of respective business strategies to produce relevant and substantial data analysis to support business goals and objectives
Continually develop skills and expertise in data analytics concepts and methodologies

What you will need to be successful in this role:

For internals, must fulfill minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements (M+)
3 to 7 years of Financial Analyst/Financial business partner/Business Insights experience
A Bachelors’ or a Masters’ degree in Finance, Business, a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
Learning mindset and willingness to mentor new analysts and senior analysts
Excellent oral and written communication
A Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and financial modeling
Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities and deadlines
Self-motivated and pro-active, with respect to both managing workload and professional development
A Flexible attitude and approach to business solutions.
Comfortable presenting in front of a small and large audience
Working knowledge of MS Office
Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
Experience utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) considered an asset