Sr Financial Analyst - Cloud

What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.

The Sr Financial Analyst – Cloud plays a central role in planning, forecasting, reporting, and accounting for Cloud costs, one of the fastest-growing and most strategically important investment categories in our Technology portfolio. This role sits within Technology Finance & Strategy, provides direct support to the Cloud FinOps team, and partners cross-functionally with IT, Business, Product, and Finance teams to ensure accurate, timely financial insights drive decisions at every level and help shape the strategic direction and continued evolution of cloud investment across the enterprise.

This is a data-rich role where questions are often open-ended and the path to an answer is not always obvious. The right candidate enjoys working through complex datasets, building scalable models and pipelines, and turning ambiguity into clear, actionable insights, while maintaining the rigor and accuracy required for month-end close.

The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in both finance and technology, thrives in fast-moving environments, and operates with a high level of ownership. They connect the details of close and accounting to the broader story behind cost trends, while continuously improving processes and reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

40% Planning, Forecasting, and Reporting - Lead the development of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial reports. Utilize advanced financial modeling techniques to create detailed forecasts and provide variance analysis to explain key financial trends. Deliver clear, comprehensive reporting to senior leadership, highlighting critical insights and potential risks. Support month end close processes.

30% Preparing and Delivering Insights - Develop and present financial analysis both visually and verbally to business leaders. Address projects and strategies, and answer questions through the lens of strong financial controllership. Provide actionable recommendations through a solid understanding of business operations and financial impacts resulting from decisions.

20% Cross-Functional Collaboration - Sr. Financial Analysts work closely with business leaders up to and including VPs to understand their business operations. They may also partner with stakeholders across finance and accounting operations to develop strong line of sight to financial inputs and outputs so that business and financial stories can be explained.

10% Project Based Analysis - Conduct detailed analyses for purposes of investment initiatives and capital allocation. Complete financial modeling to project “what if” scenarios, and explain underlying causes of possible metric variations.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager

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