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Senior Accountant

Lowe's

Mooresville, NC · Posted September 25, 2026

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  • Excel
  • Forecasting
  • GAAP
  • SOX

About the job

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 correct. In 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 Bachelor’s 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 Master’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field

Lowe's accounting or finance experience

CPA or CPA candidate

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s 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.com .

Lowe’s 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.