(USA) Senior Manager, Controllership

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What you'll do...

Senior Manager, Controllership - Corporate Accounting and Controls

This job is located at Walmart Corporate Office in Bentonville Arkansas. Walmart offers a full and comprehensive relocation package.

About the Team

This role is specifically on the Corporate Accounting and Controls Team within Global Controllership. We are responsible for oversight of corporate segment accounting, controls, and reporting.  We develop, execute, and monitor strong internal controls over corporate processes to ensure quality financial statements.

About the Position

This position reviews corporate segment financial statements, and financial audits by analyzing financial data; comparing data with third-party information, budgets, or actual results; researching and reviewing research of balance sheet account variances; discussing business impacts to the profit and loss within accounting rules (for example, generally accepted accounting principles); ensuring audits are managed for timeliness and accuracy; and facilitating the relationship between team, internal customers, and external specialists. 

Manages accounting operations by researching emerging trends and standards of external governing bodies; utilizes knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and financial reporting standards to perform financial statement analysis and accounting; identifying, correcting, and reporting discrepancies in financial statements and accounting transactions through documentation to ensure compliance with government reporting requirements and statutory filing procedures; and collaborating with external stakeholders to review and validate financial documentation.

Ensures reporting compliance by reviewing to ensure consistent application of policies, rules, and regulations, reviewing, evaluating, and interpreting internal financial statements and supporting documentation for compliance with accounting and reporting regulations and ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Provides development opportunities for associates by training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment and ensuring diversity awareness.

Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you…

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of financial statement risk, both qualitative and quantitative, and how to apply it across various segments and markets.
• Know how to research, interpret, and apply accounting standards.
• Demonstrate a digital acumen and ability to learn new systems, tools, etc.
• Are experienced in working and collaborating in a matrixed and multi-national organization.
• Are a lifetime learner and self-starter who thrives in defining problems and developing solutions.
• Can make complex subjects easily understood through compelling stories and visuals.
• Possess high standards and can hold peers and business partners accountable.
• Are stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale.
• 2-4 Years of Big4 Public Accounting experience and are a CPA.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Having strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate an ability to perform data analysis, including both financial and nonfinancial information.
• Build a strong internal network, through demonstrating knowledge and building trust quickly.
• Share ideas and solutions to complex an