Senior Manager, Finance – Global Tech Finance

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

This role focuses on building financial models and economic frameworks to evaluate and scale AI and technology investments within a large enterprise. It involves understanding AI cost stacks, developing unit economics, and partnering with engineering and finance teams to inform strategic decision-making and capital allocation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and maintain AI cost stack models, including compute, infrastructure, tooling, and enablement components
  2. Develop unit economics frameworks to support AI use case evaluation and scaling decisions
  3. Partner with Engineering to understand marginal costs, cost drivers, and capacity impacts
  4. Translate enterprise outcome frameworks into measurable KPIs and standardized ROI logic
  5. Develop cost-to-serve models for shared platforms and enterprise infrastructure

Skills

Required

  • Advanced financial modeling skills
  • Experience evaluating technology, AI, cloud, or platform-based investments
  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear, actionable economic frameworks
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally within highly matrixed organizations
  • Strong executive communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in finance, consulting, analytics, or strategy (or 6+ years of equivalent experience)
  • 1 year’s experience leading and completing cross-functional projects
  • 1 year’s supervisory experience

Nice to have

  • Analyzing data and interpreting results
  • Microsoft Office
  • Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization
  • Masters: Business Administration

What the JD emphasized

  • AI economics
  • enterprise value creation
  • AI use case evaluation
  • AI cost stack models