Manager, Finance -fashion Merchandise Finance and Strategy

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Manager role in Fashion Merchandise Finance and Strategy at Walmart, focusing on financial planning, decision support, forecasting, and budgeting. The role involves driving business insights, analytics, and reporting, and leveraging technologies like Power BI, Excel, and Machine Learning to provide key insights.

What you'd actually do

  1. Overseeing the development of short-term and long-term category financial planning by partnering with buyers to assess overall category goals.
  2. Establishing and communicating information about financial targets; identifying and reporting risk levels determined for the financial plan; providing actionable insights
  3. Track and maintain key performance indicators for revenue, margin and profit metrics
  4. Presenting feedback to leadership regarding risks associated with financial projects and providing insight on relevant historical trends, expected future events, and retail trends.
  5. Work hands-on as a DMM Support and Category Expert across the merchandising, finance, and centralized reporting groups

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 2 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or relevant area OR 4 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or related area.
  • storyteller
  • visionary
  • strategic thinker
  • financial planning
  • building financial models
  • great eye for detail
  • articulate points in a simplistic approach
  • organized
  • disciplined
  • manage competing priorities simultaneously
  • making complex subjects easily understood through visuals
  • high standards
  • accountability
  • stimulated by challenges
  • tough problems
  • navigate through ambiguous environments
  • assessing overall category goals
  • communicating information about financial targets
  • identifying and reporting risk levels
  • providing actionable insights
  • Track and maintain key performance indicators
  • revenue
  • margin
  • profit metrics
  • Presenting feedback to leadership
  • risks associated with financial projects
  • insight on relevant historical trends
  • expected future events
  • retail trends
  • DMM Support
  • Category Expert
  • merchandising
  • finance
  • centralized reporting groups
  • analytical solutions
  • business needs
  • analyze the existing operational processes
  • identify opportunities to streamline or automate
  • Leverage new tools and technologies (Power BI, Excel, Machine Learning)
  • provide key insights
  • thought leadership
  • category leadership team

Nice to have

  • 1+ years’ experience in Analytics, Planning, Business Management, Omni-Channel Merchandising, or a related area
  • 1+ years of experience leading and completing cross-functional projects
  • 1+ years of senior leadership decision support and influencing experience
  • Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
  • Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
  • Detail and results-oriented with sense of urgency
  • Masters: Business Administration
  • Analyzing data and interpreting results
  • Microsoft Office
  • Supervisory

What the JD emphasized

  • financial planning
  • forecasting
  • budgeting
  • financial models
  • financial targets
  • financial plan
  • financial projects
  • finance groups
  • financial
  • finance