Senior Manager II, Finance – Asset & Investment Portfolio Management

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Sr Manager II – Asset & Investment Portfolio Management

Are you ready to leverage your financial and portfolio management expertise to enable a Fortune 1 business? The Asset and Strategic Investment team works across Walmart US and global partners blending strategy and finance helping the organization nimbly invest, prioritize, and monitor the end-to-end portfolio performance, including digital capabilities, capital investments, overhead and key strategic resources.

What you'll do...

This role will lead financial portfolio management activities for a segment of WM US, with focus on enabling data-driven decision making across the organization. Successful candidates will be self-starters, collaborative across a matrix organization, and comfortable working in ambiguous situations. Role requires aptitude to efficiently organize and build portfolio workstreams, following iterative development, linking portfolio management to financial performance, introducing analytic automation and artificial intelligence in support of business case modelling. Role will play a critical role in managing Walmart US technology acceleration and innovation needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Guarantee adequate and dynamic strategic resource allocation, efficient asset utilization, appropriate risk diversification, evergreen assessment and trade-offs for assigned portfolio, across a short- and long-term planning horizons, in collaboration with Strategy office, finance partners, analytics, and business leaders. Lead portfolio reporting and monitoring, with focus towards analytics and visualization enablement.
• Support organization on building and maintaining standardized portfolio management approach, lead efforts towards data integration and system modernization, with vision of achieving a best-in-class investment management process across digital, capital, overhead, and material strategic decisions.
• Facilitating decision forums for digital, capital, and overhead investments, as well as high impact strategic decisions. Enable WM US leaders to make data-driven investment decisions, acting as trusted advisor linking our investment and asset performance to strategic priorities, key drivers and financial expectations, supporting the company’s efforts towards strategic growth as well as ongoing operations.
• Collaborate with transformation and analytics to accelerate adoption of AI based and advanced business case modelling with focus on developing a predictive and connected pipeline and portfolio support, informed by artificial intelligence, machine learning and other digital capabilities as well as creating untapped value.
• Support compliance with focus on appropriate and frictionless risk management. Liaise with internal audit and compliance teams and establish network with international and local business units to share and develop best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience, retail / ecommerce / technology / digital product management finance experience preferred
• Proven track record of delivering results in a fast-paced retail / technology environment with high levels of ambiguity
• Public company experience, supporting capex portfolio analytics, financial valuation techniques & governance
• Understanding of A/B testing, experimentation concepts, digital product lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively while applying sound business judgment and quantitative analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in dynamic resource allocation and strategic asset management
• System architecture and integration design, data analytics, data visualization
• Strong experience managing portfolios, with exposure to corporate finance concepts
• Proven experience demonstrating influencing skills, supporting investment analysis and trade-off decisions

This role can be hired remote with routine travel into the Bentonville, AR office required

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., 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.
1 year’s experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
1 year’s supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Analyzing data and interpreting results, Microsoft Office, Working in a large, complex, matrixed organizationMasters: Business Administration

Primary Location...

702 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America