Why you should apply for a job with Walmart:
All eligible associates have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%.
The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work.
Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service.
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Position summary
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
An exciting career opportunity to support Sam’s SG&A management and sustainable expense disciplines. In this role, the successful candidate combines thought-leadership, strong analytic mindset, and excellent collaboration skills to identify cost reduction and reinvestment opportunities across the organization.
It’s an exciting opportunity that interfaces with all aspects of the business and is supported by a solid foundation of tools, data, and processes, which enable speed and agility and inspire the right decisions.
Job description
- Lead cost discipline work across business functions through efficiencies, controls, and cost reductions.
- Identify key expense drivers and develop performance metrics for individual functions; utilize benchmarking, research, and analysis to identify expense efficiency and best practice opportunities; complete ad hoc analysis & reporting requests; develop creative solutions and negotiate with stakeholders to achieve best outcomes.
- Provide overall expense subject matter expertise for Multi-Year-Plan and Annual Operating Plan, which includes forecasting, analysis, detailed bottoms-up plan development, comprehensive variance analysis, identification of trends, gaps, opportunity areas within the business, possible course corrections, and report out to business and finance leaders.
- Work cross-functionally with business owners, finance support teams, and procurement to develop and execute strategic pipeline of cost disciplines across SG&A, Capital, and COGS initiatives.
- Support special projects that require an additional level of expertise by working with other corporate finance team members; interacting with divisional finance support teams; managing system updates with Information Systems Division; and communicating project results company wide. Support migration to new budgeting, reporting, and analytical tools
Live our Values
Culture Champion
• Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart’s commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.
Servant Leadership
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Embrace Change
Curiosity & Courage
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Digital Transformation & Change
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
Deliver for the Customer
Customer Focus
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Strategic Thinking
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.
Focus on our Associates
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
Collaboration & Influence
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
Talent Management
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
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 or related field and 3 years experience in finance or related field OR 6 years experience in finance or related field. 1 year of supervisory experience OR 1 year experience leading cross-functional projects.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Supervising AssociatesMasters: Business AdministrationConsulting - Certified Management Consultant - Certification, Financial & Insurance - Certified Internal Auditor - Certification, Financial & Insurance - Certified Public Accountant - Certification, Financial & Insurance - Chartered Financial Analyst - Certification
Primary Location...
2101 SE SIMPLE SAVINGS DR, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712-4304, United States of America
About the company
In 1962, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world’s largest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we’re reinventing the shopping experience - and our associates are at the heart of it (all 2.2 million of them). When you join our Walmart family of ...