Finance Project Leader - Merch Services

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: The Project Leader supports the Merchandising Services teams in delivering a consistent, customer‑focused in‑store experience across all saleable spaces. This role helps bring The Home Depot's stores to life by supporting the design, planning, and execution of displays, fixtures, signage, and shelf layouts that make it easy for customers to shop and engage with our products. A key responsibility of this role is evaluating the cost and value of in‑store projects. The Project Leader partners with cross‑functional teams to assess initiatives such as display updates, fixture changes, or layout enhancements, ensuring projected sales impact and customer benefits justify the investment. The Project Leader also supports project management and execution by building accurate financial forecasts, tracking spend throughout the year, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. This role provides visibility into how dollars are planned and spent, helping the business allocate resources effectively while delivering meaningful value to both customers and the store. Key Responsibilities: 40% PROJECT CONTROL - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented. 30% PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership. 10% PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed. 10% PROJECT LESSONS LEARNED - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects. 10% PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained. Direct Manager/Direct Reports: Reports to Sr Finance Manager. This role has no direct reports. 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: Strong working knowledge of Excel, Access, and Powerpoint MBA Prior experience in corporate finance and/or retail 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: 3 Preferred Years of Work Experience: No additional years of experience Minimum Leadership Experience: None Preferred Leadership Experience: None Certifications: None Competencies: Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses. Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership. Ability to work independently. Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise. As the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate over 2,200 retail stores across North America. All of our associates have one thing in mind — helping our customers build and improve their homes and businesses.