Job Description

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

Position Purpose:

Division Mgr Finance provides total financial leadership, direction and analysis to the divisional and regional leadership teams. The Division Mgr Finance plays a key role in driving division and region performance, controlling costs, and works closely with the Division Finance leaders in order to achieve business goals and create shareholder value.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Planning/Forecasting: build store level sales, wage, margin, inventory, G&A and expense plans; evaluate sales, inventory, ,margin, impact and expense plan adjustments; forecast sales, labor, expenses and G&A.
• 30% Financial Reviews: review stats & controllable expenses and provide actions and solutions to increase profitability; review payroll components including Off-Cycle, New Hire and FT/PT mix; review P&L, provide variance explanations and submit monthly reclasses and accruals to Accounting; prepare regional analysis and contribute on regional leadership calls.
• 30% Adhoc financial analysis: conduct root cause analysis; adhoc executive reporting and analysis; perform market/district analysis; adhoc HR and Compensation reviews; perform product sales trend analysis
• 5% Training: conduct field financial training sessions.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to Division Finance Leader
• Supports Divisional and Regional leadership teams
• No associates report to this role on a permanent basis, but requires the leadership of a work group: assign and review work, train and contribute to performance appraisal (but not hiring, firing or disciplinary action).

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is 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.
• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of THD systems, specifically SAP; Khalix (expense and sales); Pro Clarity; Business Warehouse (BW); Analytics Cube; Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Powerpoint).
• MBA preferred
• Retail Field Experience a Plus
• Accounting Experience a Plus

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 7

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Superior oral and written communication, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to influence others; strong leadership skills.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning and resource allocation, including financial modeling skills.
• Project management skills, including the ability to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices, analysis and reporting of financial data.
• Judgment and decision-making skills, including considering relative costs and benefits of potential actions.