Walmart - Senior Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Commercial Finance

Walmart - Senior Manager - FP&A - Commercial Finance

Senior Manager, FP&A - Individual Contributor

Work time: 2 PM to 10 PM - Hybrid Working

Team and Position Summary:

- This role is part of the FP&A CoE Agile Support team which is based out of Walmart Global tech's Gurgaon and Chennai offices. This team primarily provides FP&A and decision making support to SAM's Club business segment and drives continuous improvement/enhancements for budgeting and planning processes.

- This is an individual contributor role with a scope to fast evolve into a people manager role for a finance professional having 10+ years of core FP&A and business partnering experience with robust understanding of FP&A tools and technology, ability to support transformations & ongoing improvements within SAM's club finance.

Position Responsibilities:

- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders across SAM's (segments/functions) and partner teams (Tech, MDM, Data etc.) to manage & continuously improve product processes and enabling technologies

- Supervise processes to ensure LRP/Plan/Forecast activities are completed

- Provide business insights across SAM's segment P&Ls including deep dive analysis on overheads, inventory, headcount, revenues and costs.

- Drive profitability analysis and support in business performance reviews.

- Be a partner to the segment finance teams, providing strong analytical and business strategy support.

- Work on driver based forecasting models

- Refresh and distribute plan reporting packages/dashboards

- Assist with high-level forecast seeding and updates

- Coordinate with Tech support team for new development and application

- Manage solution design of models and application to support business needs

- Perform customer review of integrated process and identify continuous improvements

- Support Finance teams to create new planning processes and ensure associated tech delivery

- Perform solution design impact assessment on any customer requirements and prioritize requests for Tech support. Coordinate with Technology to test any changes to application design and M/L models

- Participate in recruitment process to identify the right talent for various reporting COE roles

- Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance functional & technical knowledge

- Be a mentor to the team members and develop an atmosphere of trust and openness

- Manage a team of FP&A specialists and Product Analysts

Position Requirements:

- CA / CPA / MBA or equivalent qualification

- Minimum 10+ years of post-qualification experience in FP&A processes

- Experience of working as individual contributor, managing core FP&A operations

- Strong analytical skills and ability to partner with senior stakeholders, delivering insights and strategy support.

- Experience of working with Fin-Tech and product teams in matrix environment

- Experienced in working with FP&A Tools and technology - preferably OneStream, HFM

- Understanding of excel based financial data modelling

- Experience of working in a retail industry is strongly preferred.

Additional Qualifications:

- Robust understanding of data modelling and developing effective processes for data analysis and reporting. - preferably working knowledge/experience in data science, machine learning concepts/models

- Experience working with/for Product teams globally

- Advanced knowledge of Agile product development method

- Knowledge of SQL, Power BI, Python will be an added advantage

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.