Position Purpose:

The Home Depot is able to offer virtual employment of this position in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

The Finance Business Services (FBS) team serves as a strategic and innovative partner focused on supporting business growth, as part of a world-class controllership organization.

The FBS Lead Analyst will drive day-to-day activities, advise, and support managers across the Order to Cash (OTC) tower. This role is responsible for advising and supporting leadership across the Order to Cash (OTC) tower, to drive the vision of innovation and digital enablement. This role collaborates with internal teams and external business partners to support problem solving efforts.  This role supports all end-to-end processes within the Order to Cash tower. 

As a FBS Lead Analyst, you will support individual contributors (Sr. Analysts) prioritize and review work, develop and execute automation opportunities while balancing your own workload. This role is expected to present continuous improvement insights and recommendations to managers and leaders. In addition, lead analysts will collaborate with cross-functional teams, requiring effective communication skills, and the ability to build relationships and partnerships while managing competing priorities.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• 10% Collaboration - Leverages prior experiences to help develop and recommend solutions; Effectively develops trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams in other towers; Collaborates with appropriate team members to gather input and feedback concerning business needs; Understands the technical needs required for successfully tackling business problems
• 20% Continuous Improvements & Controls - Participates in the continuous improvement of FBS processes by developing scalable solutions; Ensures appropriate processes and job-specific requirements are properly documented; Works closely with compliance and controls teams as needed
• 60% Operational Duties & Oversight - Coordinate execution by a small team of required tasks related to the delivery of the OTC tower; Collaborates effectively with other teams in organizing key hand-offs between teams, as needed; Works on building and proposing solutions for internal or external customers; Fosters continuous improvement and innovation by challenging and proposing ideas for doing things in a different way; Helps to ensure execution of controls related to the day-to-day activities; Creates regular reports for the leadership; assists with or produces other reports as requested; Provides advise and analysis to increase the efficiency; Leverages prior experiences to help develop and recommend solutions; Executes month end / year end processes; Collaborates with program managers and business partners to align on objectives and expectations and ensure team members deliver against them; Monitor and works towards meeting KPIs and SLAs defined for the area; Serve as first escalation point for any issues or difficulties with specific projects
• 10% Team Leadership - Provides guidance to Senior Analysts in development of business knowledge and technical skills; Helps identify, develop and execute automation opportunities efficiently and effectively; Foster collaboration with team members to develop a supportive and engaged team; Support team in the design and development of algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights Drive team's results and celebrate accomplishments

  
  Nature and Scope:

  • This Position typically reports to FBS Manager

    
    Environmental Job Requirements:
    
    Environment:
    Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
    
    Travel:
    Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.