Senior Manager, Finance- AI Acceleration Product & Design

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Senior Manager, Finance

Location: Bentonville, AR

We are building a new AI Acceleration, Product & Design organization to transform how Walmart builds horizontal platforms, unlocks productivity, and drives growth through cutting-edge technology. As the Senior Manager, Finance, you will be the strategic finance partner embedded in this transformation.

You will operate at the intersection of finance and product innovation, partnering closely with the AI leadership team, Strategy, and People to quantify impact, prioritize initiatives, and shape Walmart’s next frontier of growth.

The Senior Manager, Finance reports directly to the Senior Director, Finance and is a high-impact, utility player role that blends financial rigor with strong business acumen, analytical depth, and excitement for AI-driven transformation.

What you’ll do:

• Build and operationalize financial support for the AI Acceleration, Product & Design organization from the ground up.
• Lead the creation of AI and horizontal platform business cases; analyze return on investment, cost-benefit tradeoffs, and execution implications.
• Develop a structured approach to prioritize initiatives by opportunity size, maturity, and alignment to enterprise objectives.
• Collaborate with Product and Tech to translate ambiguous ideas into measurable financial outcomes.
• Track output and financial realization from change initiatives across the AI portfolio.
• Support tool development and financial modeling to measure impact across business units.
• Partner with Strategy, Finance, and HR teams to align on productivity definitions, metrics, and tracking processes.
• Act as the connective tissue across multiple verticals to ensure financial alignment, scalable decision-making, and benefit quantification.

What you’ll bring:

• A strategic finance leader with 6+ years of experience in corporate finance or FP&A, ideally within tech, retail, or enterprise transformation contexts.
• Highly analytical, with experience in business case modeling, prioritization frameworks, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Proficient in financial systems and capable of diving deep into detailed reporting while maintaining a strategic lens.
• Excited about Walmart’s AI vision and comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments.
• A utility player—adaptive, collaborative, and eager to build from zero-to-one.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. 

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave la