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Senior Accountant, Business Unit Accounting

Home Depot
Full-time
Remote
United States and Georgia
Remote Accounting

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

Position Purpose:

The person in this position will act as a team lead in guiding, training, and helping to develop the other accountants on the team as well as having the opportunity to develop their own supervisory skills.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Project accounting
  • Monthly preparation, review and analysis of assigned accounts and review of specified accounts assigned to staff accountants included in the consolidated and divisional profit and loss statements and balance sheet.
  • Preparation and/or review of monthly account reconciliations in accordance with Finance Account Reconciliation Standards.
  • Position will be required to take a leadership role in departmental training and development and be committed to work in a team-oriented environment.
  • Preparation, review, and analysis of management reporting

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
  • Typically reports to Finance and Accounting
  • 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 less than 10% 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.

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

Preferred Qualifications:
  • BBA or Masters in Accounting/Finance
  • CPA preferred
  • 2+ years of Accounting/General Ledger experience, Real Estate construction or operations is a +
  • Background should include monthly close, account reconciliation preparation, P&L review, variance analysis, and process improvements.
  • Proven analytical, problem identification and resolution skills
  • Experience in Financial System conversion including Data Migration and Application Integration. Candidate must be a pro-active self-starter with solid time management skills. Must have the ability to handle changing priorities, multi-task outside primary areas of responsibility, establish good business relationships, work directly with management, and have demonstrated leadership ability to manage departmental projects and/or initiatives. Expected to handle confidential company financial and operational information in a responsible manner.

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:
  • 2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:
  • No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:
  • None

Preferred Leadership Experience:
  • None

Certifications:
  • None

Competencies:
  • Solid foundation in Accounting
  • Ability to work with many people across multiple departments
  • Knowledge of construction accounting is a +
  • SAP knowledge is a +