Senior Accountant

Do your Best Work in Mooresville

This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk grab a bite (or a cup of coffee) work out or get a check-up we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.

Your Impact

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 to ensure accounting records are 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.

What You Will Do

• 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 principal 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
• At times may mentor and train accountants in the development of moderately complex skills knowledge of key principles regulations etc.
• Works with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions and alignment 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree Business Finance Economics Accounting or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 4 years experience in accounting tax finance (public or private) or relevant experience
• Demonstrated understanding of intermediate GAAP concepts and financial controls (to apply this knowledge to the design and execution of activities within the respective area)
• Advanced skills in MS office programs (Excel Word Access)

Preferred Skills/Education

• Masters degree Business Finance Economics Accounting or related field
• Lowes accounting or finance experience
• CPA or CPA candidate

About Lowes

Lowes Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than$86 billion. Lowes employs approximately 300000 associates and operates over 1750 home improvement stores 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowes is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based inMooresville N.C. Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing improving community spaces helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information visit.

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.