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 in Process Excellence will help identify, recommend, and implement process improvements across all three towers of the FBS organization (e.g., Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and Record to Report).  The person in this role with collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to identify pain points /needed changes, recommend solutions, and support the implementation of needed changes. The Lead Analyst will collect and analyze data in order to understand needs across a variety of business dimensions that must be considered.

As a FBS Lead Analyst, you will support process owners prioritize and review work, 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.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks     

Operational Duties & Oversight (60%)     

• Coordinate execution by a small team of required tasks related to the delivery of the (PTP, OTC, RTR) 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.

  People Management & Team Leadership (20%)                

  • Provides guidance to Analysts and Senior Analysts and evaluate execution and contribution.
  • Supports timely feedback to the analysts regarding performance, execution, and contribution.
  • Support steam in development of business knowledge and technical skills with clear plans and regular assessment of progress.
  • 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

    Continuous Improvements & Controls (10%)

    • 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

      Collaboration (10%)

      • 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

        Nature and Scope 

        • Position reports to FBS Manager or Senior Manager             
        • This position could have up to 2-3 direct reports and manages programs.           
        • Typically requires overnight travel 0-10% of the time.             

          Physical Job Requirements           

          • Most of the time 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.             
              Environmental Job Requirements:
              Environment:
              1. Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
              Travel:
              Additional Environmental Job Requirements:
              Under regular pressure to meet deadlines, quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult issues related to people or situations.