MANAGER, FINANCE

Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.

 Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness. Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.

Team and Position Summary:

• This position is part of the FPA CoE Operations Management team which is based out of Walmart Global Tech Chennai office. This team primarily provides operational support to WMT HQ Finance Team and drive continuous improvement/enhancements for budgeting and planning processes
• Finance professional having 5 - 10 years of experience in FPA processes (various planning models including driver based planning) with robust understanding of FPA tools and technology who can support transformations ongoing improvements/ operations of different Walmart segments FPA processes

What you will do:

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and partner teams (product, engineering) to manage continuously improve product processes and enabling technologies
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and collaborate across business and fin-Tech teams
• Sound understanding of forecasting and budgeting (AOP) activities with experience of end to end cycle (Variance analysis, flash reports, etc)
• Understanding and knowledge of working with large datasets with multiple dimensions. Understanding of primary system interaction with multiple systems
• High proficiency in excel based modelling, developing maintaining clean, scalable, and flexible models
• Strong experience in Excel modelling required
• Collaborate with Fin-tech business teams in product UAT and sign off
• Ability to identify execution risks and roadblocks in timely manner thereby ensuring noiseless delivery and efficient stakeholder management
• Proven ability to accurately document existing processes, change requests and business requirements and maintaining functional design models
• Support in maintaining training documentation to capture FPA models and system
• Experience of tech implementation/enhancements along with hyper-care support

What you will bring:

• CA / CPA / MBA or equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5-10 years of post-qualification experience in FPA processes
• Experience of working with Fin-Tech and product teams in matrix environment
• Understanding of excel based financial data modelling

Additional Qualifications:

• Knowledge of JIRA Confluence will prove to be an asset
• Exposure to OneStream/ HFM application will be added advantage
• Experience in finance/FPA transformation role in an agile methodology