Senior Manager Revenue Accounting

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

Position Purpose:

The primary purpose of this role is to lead and oversee revenue accounting and sales reporting for The Home Depot. This position will manage two critical teams:

• Sales Accounting Team – responsible for revenue recognition, month-end close activities, and ensuring compliance with US GAAP.
• Sales Reporting Team – responsible for all internal and external sales reporting, including support for public filings and executive-level reporting.

The Senior Manager will serve as the subject matter expert on revenue recognition and reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across all deliverables. Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing income statement reviews, journal entry approvals, and reconciliation sign-offs.
• Driving the review and sign-off of public filings and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Leading resolution of revenue recognition issues through root cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration with IT and other partners.
• Managing complex data research across multiple systems and leveraging tools such as Google BigQuery and SAP S/4HANA.
• Overseeing order-to-cash processes to ensure compliance with US GAAP revenue recognition standards and identifying any impacts on related workflows.

• Providing strategic oversight and guidance on cross functional initiatives for accurate and timely internal and external sales reporting. This will include significant cross functional involvement in the company’s strategic initiatives.

• "on cross-functional initiatives" or something to indicate that this role will be heavily engaged in business partner, cross-functional, top 40 stuff.  

This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to simplify and communicate complex topics to all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate will be:

• Highly self-motivated, detail-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity and large data sets.
• Experienced in US GAAP revenue recognition and SAP S/4HANA.
• Skilled at managing teams, driving process improvements, and fostering collaboration across functions.

The Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of revenue and sales reporting at The Home Depot, supporting both operational excellence and strategic decision-making.

 
Key Responsibilities:

• 20% Collaboration - Prioritizes and assigns projects using factors such as funding, return on investment, innovation or challenging work; Manages programs for the team to ensure consistency of execution, balance of resources and quality solutions; Collaborates with program managers and business partners to align on objectives and expectations and ensure project teams deliver against them
• 10% Continuous Improvements & Controls - Participates in the continuous improvement of FBS processes; Oversees Internal Controls and drives compliance; Works closely with controls and compliance teams
• 30% Operational Duties & Oversight - Monitors team(s) progress against departmental goals; Monitors team(s) daily activities; Leads regular team meetings to address operations topics, improvements and projects that require monitoring and resolution; Serves as the second level escalation for risks and issues; Provides updates and recommendation to leaders at all levels of the organization on short- and long-term objectives and policies, program effectiveness, team accomplishments, summary of findings, and explain internal and external impacts; Oversees the administration of financial policies
• 30% People Management & Team Leadership - Provides leadership, mentorship and coaching to supervisors and managers; ensures teams are supported; Provides guidance on a regular basis, keeps connected with the team; Provides performance reviews and timely feedback to direct reports regarding performance, execution, and contribution; Recruits and hires staff; Manages the different team members with respect for all people, coaching them for bringing up the strengths and skills that will set a successful group of highly motivated and strong performers; Fosters collaboration with team members; develops a supportive and engaged team
• 10% Strategy Mindset - Leads transformational projects defined in conjunction with other areas or teams. Support the planning, execution and allocation of resources needed to run the project; Continuously aims to create shareholder value by proposing and supporting transformational ideas and projects; Drives adoption of leading-edge techniques and methods, both predictive and prescriptive

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to Director
• This Position has 6 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.
• Previous people or project team management experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education & Certification
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (Master’s degree or MBA preferred).
  • CPA designation strongly preferred.
• Technical Expertise
  • Extensive knowledge of US GAAP revenue recognition principles and their application in large-scale retail environments.
  • Proficiency in SAP S/4HANA and advanced reporting tools (e.g., Google BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI).
  • Strong understanding of order-to-cash processes and related internal controls.
• Experience
  • 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public company experience and exposure to SEC reporting.
  • Prior leadership experience managing multiple teams (e.g., Revenue Accounting and Sales Reporting) in a high-volume, multi-channel retail environment.
  • Experience with internal and external reporting for large organizations
• Skills
  • Exceptional analytical skills with ability to interpret large, complex data sets.
  • Strong communication skills to simplify complex accounting topics for senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Proven ability to lead process improvements and implement automation in reporting and reconciliation.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Demonstrated success in building and developing high-performing teams.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with IT, Finance, and Operations to resolve issues and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with competing priorities.

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:

• 7

Competencies:

• Business Insights
• Nimble Learning
• Persuades
• Cultivates Innovation
• Ensures Accountability
• Instills Trust
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Develops Talent
• Manages Conflict