Senior Manager, Finance – Merchandise Finance Decision Support

Position Summary

Join Walmart as a Senior Manager, Finance – Central Merchandise Finance Decision Support and your work could help over 240 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life.

Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in belonging, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. Are you looking to help drive impact through quality business insights and analytics for fast growing, high-impact areas of the business?

Our team perform critical roles in supporting digital acceleration and projects that significantly improve the way our business operates. This Sr. Manager position will manage and oversee a broad range of critical financial activities including, management reporting and business analytics. You will be responsible for delivering a new way of working in finance, helping quickly connect dots across business activities and to source, validate, and visualize relevant data that helps draw insights that enable the business to plan and take quick action.

• You’re a storyteller, a visionary, and a strategic thinker

• You know financial planning inside and out

• You’re familiar with building financial models

• You have a great eye for detail and can articulate points in a simplistic approach

• You’re organized, disciplined, and can manage competing priorities simultaneously

• You’re a master at making complex subjects easily understood through visuals

• You have high standards and believe in accountability

• You’re stimulated by challenges and tough problems

• You are a self-starter, curious, and want to learn

• You are interested in data, analytics, and retail

Driving Strategic Analytics – Drive a cohesive set of reporting and analytics tools that help us simplify our work and progress into a more insights and analytics focused team. Being a Trusted Advisor – Develop strong and trusting relationships with internal teams. Serve as the go-to for analytics – working across the organization to solve issues, address pain points and implement growth initiatives.

Producing Informative Financial Materials – Creating and presenting financial information to business partners in a clear and concise manner and simplifying visualizations to help drive adoption and ease of use across Merchandise Finance. Delivering Data Driven Analysis – Sourcing and compiling relevant data; organizing and validating data prior to data analysis; consolidating and identifying exceptions and patterns in data; synthesizing data in the creation of actionable customer insights;

and translating information into action plans. Practicing Continuous Process Improvement – Supporting our transformation journey by analyzing, proposing, and presenting solutions and process improvements to senior management for approval; and implementing new systems/process or enhancements. Driving a New Way of Working – Help educate our team and our stakeholders on our tools, data, and utilization to help us more quickly adopt a more digital and data driven way of working.

Leverage new tools and technologies (Power BI, Excel, Machine Learning) to provide key insights and thought leadership to the finance and merchandise leadership teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 4 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or related area.

• MBA highly preferred

• 2+ years of experience leading and completing cross‑functional projects

• Experience working in a large, complex, matrixed organization

• Experience in Retail, Merchandising Planning and / or Finance

• Experience working in Fortune 100 finance

• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines

• Strong influencing and…