Principal Accountant

Your Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to administer accounting policy and procedures related to capital assets and resolve issues to enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis as per US Generally Accepted Accounting Principal (US GAAP) and Company Policy. This includes responsibility for researching, managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing financial activities to ensure accounting records are correct. In addition, this role supports the execution and design of internal controls over financial systems as well as financial and regulatory reporting, by working independently to apply and provide experienced accounting judgment and advanced knowledge of US GAAP and regulatory.

What You Will Do

• Work in a team environment including assisting business partners and team members in the timely processing of financial activities which require the application of technical accounting knowledge specific to capital assets.
• Understands and communicates capital versus expense guidance to various business areas and provides oversight of these decisions within the capital asset team.
• Manage and often perform complex analyses (i.e., historical, forecasting, impact, etc.) and timely reconciliations to support monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations
• Research financial transactions related to their areas of responsibility to identify issues and determine appropriate resolution independently.
• Execute specials projects related to the resolution of complex accounting transactions.
• Ensure appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for journal entries are maintained and provided to appropriate stakeholders.
• Prepare and communicate variance explanations for monthly, quarterly, and annual analysis.
• Partner with team and the business to identify transaction issues and process improvement opportunities to support the needs of the Finance organization more-effectively.
• Work with internal and external auditors to provide required data and information.
• Apply advanced concepts around internal control design and execution to assist with the design of internal controls over financial reporting to support SOX compliance.
• Review reports, analysis and reconciliations prepared by Accountants and Senior Accountants to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
• Self-driven, ability to work independently, while providing direction and influencing the work of others.
• Mentor and train lower and mid- accounting employees in the development of accounting skills, knowledge of key principles, regulations etc.
• Independently manages projects/initiatives, working with and directing teams across Finance functions to deliver the best solutions to financial issues

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
• 5 years of Accounting Experience
• Intermediate to Advanced skills in MS office programs (Excel, Word, Access)

• Master's Degree
• CPA
• Lowe's finance or accounting experience
• Experience using Oracle ERP