Senior Manager, Finance
Walmart · Posted Oct 29
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
Walmart's Enterprise FP&A Operational COE enables financial planning and performance management across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, International, and Corporate Finance through OneStream administration, process excellence, and self-service capabilities. This Chennai-based Senior Manager leads FP&A operational enablement for a portion of the COE team, partnering with a Bentonville Senior Manager on LRP/AOP planning, forecasting, month-end close, workforce planning, and performance management. The role combines OneStream governance, data quality and controls, process improvement, and onsite people leadership.
What you will do
- Lead FP&A operational support for planning, forecasting, month-end close, workforce planning, and performance management across the functional leader's segments and cycles.
- Own planning-cycle readiness in Chennai: calendars, run books, data loads, reconciliations, and sign-off checkpoints for each LRP, AOP, forecast, and close cycle.
- Oversee production support and issue resolution. Triage defects, document evidence, and escalate to Product and Engineering with clear impact and priority, while keeping technical fixes with the teams that own them.
- Drive OneStream administration, governance, and continuous improvement, including change assessment, testing, controls, and documentation.
- Partner with Finance, Transformation, Product, Engineering, and Master Data teams to improve financial systems, data quality, and process effectiveness.
- Lead efforts to simplify processes, strengthen controls, and improve the user experience, and identify where automation, self-service, and AI-enabled solutions can raise Finance productivity.
- Build and maintain knowledge assets (process guides, recordings, cross-training plans) so every cycle has a primary and a backup owner.
- Serve as a senior escalation point during India hours and provide coverage and continuity when the Bentonville leader is unavailable.
- Act as the onsite supervisor for a Chennai based team, providing day-to-day direction, prioritization, and coaching.
- Manage team administration in partnership with IDC Finance leadership and HR: attendance, time-off and leave approvals, Workday tasks, onboarding, access, and required compliance training.
- Set goals and run regular check-ins, and provide performance and calibration input to the functional and administrative leaders.
- Participate in talent processes for the team, including recruiting and interviewing, development plans, promotion readiness, and recognition and award nominations.
- Build engagement, trust, and retention, and give associates clear growth paths within the COE.
- Coordinate with the other onsite COE Senior Manager in Chennai on shared coverage, standards, cross-training, and site-level matters.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, financial systems, finance operations, or performance management, including 6+ years in planning and forecasting in a complex, multi-segment organization.
- 3+ years leading teams, preferably including people managers or senior individual contributors.
- Strong understanding of planning, forecasting, workforce planning, month-end close, and financial reporting processes.
- Hands-on experience with OneStream or a comparable Enterprise Performance Management platform (e.g., Hyperion/Essbase, Oracle EPM, Anaplan). Administration or build experience is strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, Transformation, Product, and Engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success driving process improvement, governance, controls, and operational excellence.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication, with the ability to explain the story behind the numbers and influence across organizational boundaries and time zones.
- Passion for developing teams and building scalable, sustainable solutions that improve business outcomes at enterprise scale.
Preferred qualifications
- Preferred: CA, CMA, CPA, or MBA (Finance). Experience with U.S.-based retail or global capability center models. Familiarity with Agile delivery, data modeling, and AI or automation tools applied to finance.
Benefits and support
- incentive awards for performance
- maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- health benefits
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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