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Job Description
Position Summary…
What you’ll do…
Join Walmart as a Director, Finance Planning & Analysis – Sourcing and your work could help over 295 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 diversity and inclusion, 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 a fast growing, high-impact area of the business? Walmart Sourcing Finance is just the place!
Walmart Sourcing works closely with merchants in all segments to connect them with products and solutions at the best value. Partnering strategically with the best suppliers around the world, our business is a significant competitive advantage across all merchandising businesses, adding incremental value for our global partners and ultimately our end-consumer.
Our Finance team performs a critical role in providing visibility and accountability through digital tools, new ways of looking at the business, and projects that significantly improve the way our business operates. This position owns strategy, design, and delivery of our Finance data and visualization and forecasting tools. The role requires strong financial and technical acumen and analytical capabilities to lead delivery of a broad range of critical activities including data acquisition and quality, management reporting visualization and tools, and business analytics. A strong understanding of merchandising metrics is preferred as we continue to drive more common language with our internal customers. You will be responsible for delivering a new way of working in Sourcing Finance – pushing the team to leverage new tools and visibility to quickly connect dots across business activities and visualize relevant data that helps draw insights that enable our stakeholders to plan and take quick action.
You’ll be a great fit for the role if:
- You have strong financial acumen and experience in merchandising finance and forecasting within the General Merchandise / Consumer Packaged Goods space
- You love digging into the numbers to find new opportunities or patterns to explain “the what and the why” behind performance and have experience leading teams working with large data sets, finding insights, and telling stories using data; you have experience leading teams who program in R or Python, Google Big Query, Alteryx, and/or SQL
- You are curious and creative and have a track record of diving in to come up with inventive and sustainable solutions for big problems and opportunities and have demonstrated experience designing / implementing tools that enable data visualization and analytics
- You can lead & influence cross-functional partners to develop and improve methodologies and solutions that will leverage big data (e.g., SQL, Google Big Query, Teradata), statistical modeling tools (e.g., R, Python), and/or AI & ML techniques where applicable.
- You thrive in constantly evolving, fast-paced, dynamic environments, and have a structured and organized approach to drive programs & expected outcomes with minimal direction, and can manage competing priorities simultaneously
- You are a great communicator, have a great eye for detail, and can articulate points in a simplistic approach
- You believe in and prioritize the collective success of the team and are quick to jump in, help, mentor, and coach your fellow team members; you have high standards and believe in accountability
- You are stimulated by challenges and tough problems and can navigate through ambiguous environments
You’ll make an impact by:
Producing Informative Financial Materials: Creating and presenting financial information to leadership in a clear and concise manner and producing compelling stories and visuals; 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: Developing strong and trusting relationships with internal teams. Serve as the go-to for data and analytics – working across the organization to solve issues, address pain points and implement growth initiatives.
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/processes or enhancements
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Technology, or related field and 10 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or related area
- 5+ years’ experience in Analytics, Planning/Forecasting, big data management, statistical modeling tools, and/or AI & ML techniques
- 2 years of experience leading and completing cross-functional projects
- 2 years of people leadership experience
- 2 years of senior leadership decision support and influencing experience
- Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
- Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency
- Retail Merchandise Finance or external CPG experience.
- Strategic Planning, Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization
- Master of Business Administration
Benefits & Perks
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
Minimum Qualifications…
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience
i n accounting, finance, or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.
2 years’ experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
Preferred Qualifications…
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Strategic Planning, Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization
Masters: Business Administration
Financial & Insurance – Certified Public Accountant – Certification
Primary Location…
701 S. WALTON BLVD., BENTONVILLE, AR 72716-6209, United States of America
