Director, Controllership– Global SOX (Business Process - Sarbanes Oxley)

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What you'll do...

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

ABOUT THE POSITION

Today’s Walmart is a people-led, tech-powered, omnichannel retailer, dedicated to helping people save money and live better. As part of the Walmart Global Internal Controls (GIC) organization, you will directly contribute to the success of Walmart’s retail growth strategy, collaborating across an organization that is hyper-focused on enabling customers to shop however they want, anywhere and anytime.

The position is a highly engaged accounting support role that is responsible for designing and maintaining internal controls over financial reporting. This position supports various segments across Walmart. In this role, you will work directly with controllership, business, and tech partners.

As Director, Controllership – Global SOX (Business Process), you will be a key team member of the Global Internal Controls team in the facilitation of transformation projects working with process owners and auditors to design and maintain an effective and efficient internal control over financial reporting environment.

A successful candidate will demonstrate excellent leadership and collaboration skills while leveraging detailed financial and operational risk and controls knowledge as well as financial statement audit principles. This individual will lead process improvement, innovation, and help enhance processes for a global company.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You’re a highly motivated and professionally curious individual.
• You have a great eye for detail and can articulate points in a simplistic approach.
• You have a demonstrated ability to influence business partners within large, matrixed organizations.
• You have strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify and resolve complex accounting issues.
• You can communicate clearly and effectively to broad range of stakeholders, both in writing and verbally
• You have ambitious standards.
• You are organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• You have a passion for business and are focused on helping our customers to save money and live better.
• You’re stimulated by challenges and tough problems.
• You have an accounting, IT (Information Technology) and process improvement background.
• You have a risk and controls mindset.
• You understand accounting and auditing principles and modern IT-oriented concepts such as Agile, Cloud, etc.
• Willingness to learn something new every day.
• You have SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) and Business Process Controls leadership experience.
• You have 9+ years auditing experience in Big 4, regional public accounting firm.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborating with key stakeholders across the largest initiatives in the company to proactively implement internal controls.
• Managing the design and/or implementation of business process and application-level controls within systems currently under development by addressing requirements, facilitating test plans, and transitioning to the business process owner.
• Designing and implementing process controls including manual process controls, automation and configurable controls, interfaces, and segregation of duties.
• Understanding system development life cycles and how to integrate controls development into ongoing projects.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects and functional support activities globally by coordinating associates and consultants to efficiently develop and deliver recom