Director, Business Analysis and Insights - Earnings Operations

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Director of Business Analysis and Insights for Walmart's earnings and tax platform for independent contractors. The role focuses on defining strategy, building scalable systems, and ensuring regulatory compliance, leveraging advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and machine learning to enhance user experience and operational excellence in a regulated fintech environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and execute the long-term vision and strategic roadmap for contractor earnings and tax excellence, ensuring the development of future-ready platforms that drive both user satisfaction and regulatory compliance.
  2. Build and oversee capabilities that guarantee accurate, timely disbursement of earnings, seamless tax reporting for contractors (such as 1099s and global equivalents), and transparent, user-centric experiences that foster trust.
  3. Design and implement solutions that embed compliance-by-design principles, proactively minimizing regulatory risk while enhancing transparency and reliability for all users.
  4. Identify and pursue opportunities for continuous innovation by leveraging competitor benchmarking, in-depth user research, and analysis of industry trends to ensure our offerings remain best-in-class.
  5. Lead and align cross-functional teams—including product, engineering, compliance, analytics, and design—to deliver against key business metrics, translating complex requirements into intuitive, scalable solutions.

Skills

Required

  • Deep expertise in fintech, compliance, or LMD technology
  • Proven track record of building, launching, and scaling complex products
  • Advanced technical fluency
  • Hands-on experience collaborating closely with engineering and data science teams
  • Experience developing ML/AI-powered platforms
  • Demonstrated success designing and implementing solutions that meet or exceed regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
  • Strong experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams in global settings
  • Results-driven approach
  • Ability to drive innovation
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity
  • Ability to deliver measurable impact

Nice to have

  • AI-driven insights
  • Machine learning
  • Generative AI

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory excellence
  • regulatory compliance
  • regulatory risk
  • regulatory requirements
  • highly regulated

Other signals

  • AI-driven insights
  • Leveraging machine learning and generative AI
  • ML/AI-powered platforms