Director, Finance - Walmart Sourcing
Walmart

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Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join Walmart as a Director, Finance - Walmart Sourcing 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 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? Sourcing Finance is just the place!

Walmart Sourcing works closely with merchants in all our global segments and retail markets 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 provides critical visibility and accountability through digital tools and innovative approaches, driving significant improvements in how we operate. As a strategic thought leader, this Director partners with Consumables Sourcing to drive resilience, value, and trust for the organization. With strong financial acumen and analytical skills, this Director manages a team delivering financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, business analytics, and decision support. Preferred qualifications include a strong understanding of merchandising metrics to continue driving common language within the organization. This Director collaborates cross-functionally to understand business performance, identify opportunities and risks, prepares executive-level materials, and introduces new ways of working in Sourcing Finance, leveraging tools and data to quickly connect dots across business activities and drive insights for informed planning and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership, business owners, and finance teams to understand trends, set targets, identify opportunities, and manage risks
  
• Partner with Sourcing and Merchant teams to drive business results and define strategic initiatives
  
• Simplify and clarify key customer-relevant metrics and KPIs across the business
  
• Lead strategic (LRP) and annual planning (AOP) processes for the Consumables portfolio, developing and implementing initiatives and plans
  
• Develop and implement business strategies, plans, and practices, analyzing costs and forecasts
  
• Evaluate processes, measure outcomes, and identify opportunities for improvement
  
• Promote a customer-focused environment, demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
  
• Attract and retain top talent through recruitment, selection, development, mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning
  
• Foster a culture of integrity and ethics, integrating these values into all programs and practices
  

You'll make an impact by:

Being a Trusted Advisor: Acting as the "CFO" of your domain. Quickly developing strong and trusting relationships with internal teams. Partner and participate in business strategy discussions and influence key business decisions with informed recommendations leveraging facts and data.

Driving Strategic Analytics: Understanding key sourcing processes, financial/operational metrics, and business goals and objectives to analyze, interpret, and communicate business performance, identify opportunities, and enable strategic investment decisions.

Producing Informative Financial Materials: Creating and presenting financial information to business partners in a clear and concise manner, demonstrating ability to articulate Sourcing impacts/opportunities to the retail merchandising business.

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: Working across the organization to identify and solve issues with a customer-oriented mindset, bringing new ideas forward and influencing positive change.

Gaining An Understanding of Sourcing: Demonstrating ability to learn and keep up to date an understanding of Walmart Sourcing and new and creative solutions to help the business make the best choices.

Driving New Ways of Working: Advancing our journey to become a more digital and data driven team by utilizing and championing data visualization tools to drive the business and educating our stakeholders to promote adoption.

You'll sweep us off our feet if you:

• Prioritize the collective success of the team
  
• Have a strong track record of mentoring and coaching others
  
• Highly organized, disciplined, and able to manage multiple priorities
  
• Love data-driven problems with focus on accountability & high standards
  
• Can easily explain the "what" and "why" behind performance
  
• Strong communicator with a detail-oriented approach
  
• Thrives in fast-paced, challenging, ambiguous, constantly-evolving environments
  
• Financial acumen and experience in CPG merchandising finance
  
• Creative problem-solver with a record of inventive solutions
  
• Proven experience in data visualization and analytics tool development
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5 years' experience in accounting, finance, or relevant area OR 7 years' experience in accounting, finance, or related area
  
• 4+ years' experience in Analytics, Planning, Business Management, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area
  
• 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
  

• Retail merchandise finance or external CPG experience
  
• Strategic planning and working in a large, complex, matrixed organization
  
• Master of Business Administration
  

• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
  
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
  
• Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency
  

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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- Stock
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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

About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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