Senior Manager, Finance

Position Summary... Walmart is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to lead FP&A operational enablement in Chennai for the Enterprise FP&A Operational COE. Working as the onsite leader for a portion of the COE's Chennai team, this role partners closely with a Bentonville-based Senior Manager across that leader's full portfolio, including planning (LRP/AOP), forecasting, month-end close, workforce planning, and performance management for the segments and financial cycles they support. The successful candidate combines strong FP&A judgment, OneStream expertise, and people leadership to keep financial cycles running reliably, strengthen data quality and controls, and grow the next generation of COE talent. This position plays a critical role in advancing Walmart's financial planning and forecasting capabilities.

What you'll do... Position Summary

Walmart is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to lead FP&A operational enablement in Chennai for the Enterprise FP&A Operational COE. Working as the onsite leader for a portion of the COE's Chennai team, this role partners closely with a Bentonville-based Senior Manager across that leader's full portfolio, including planning (LRP/AOP), forecasting, month-end close, workforce planning, and performance management for the segments and financial cycles they support. The successful candidate combines strong FP&A judgment, OneStream expertise, and people leadership to keep financial cycles running reliably, strengthen data quality and controls, and grow the next generation of COE talent. This position plays a critical role in advancing Walmart's financial planning and forecasting capabilities.

About the Team The Enterprise FP&A Operational COE enables financial planning and performance management across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, International, and Corporate Finance. By combining OneStream administration, process excellence, and self-service capabilities, we help Finance leaders improve data integrity, accelerate financial cycles, and unlock actionable insights that drive better business decisions across the enterprise.

What You'll Do Functional leadership (in partnership with the Bentonville Senior Manager) • Lead FP&A operational support for planning, forecasting, month-end close, workforce planning, and performance management across the functional leader's segments and cycles. • Own planning-cycle readiness in Chennai: calendars, run books, data loads, reconciliations, and sign-off checkpoints for each LRP, AOP, forecast, and close cycle. • Oversee production support and issue resolution. Triage defects, document evidence, and escalate to Product and Engineering with clear impact and priority, while keeping technical fixes with the teams that own them. • Drive OneStream administration, governance, and continuous improvement, including change assessment, testing, controls, and documentation. • Partner with Finance, Transformation, Product, Engineering, and Master Data teams to improve financial systems, data quality, and process effectiveness. • Lead efforts to simplify processes, strengthen controls, and improve the user experience, and identify where automation, self-service, and AI-enabled solutions can raise Finance productivity. • Build and maintain knowledge assets (process guides, recordings, cross-training plans) so every cycle has a primary and a backup owner. • Serve as a senior escalation point during India hours and provide coverage and continuity when the Bentonville leader is unavailable. Onsite people leadership and administration (Chennai) • Act as the onsite supervisor for a Chennai based team, providing day-to-day direction, prioritization, and coaching. • Manage team administration in partnership with IDC Finance leadership and HR: attendance, time-off and leave approvals, Workday tasks, onboarding, access, and required compliance training. • Set goals and run regular check-ins, and provide performance and calibration input to the functional and administrative leaders. • Participate in talent processes for the team, including recruiting and interviewing, development plans, promotion readiness, and recognition and award nominations. • Build engagement, trust, and retention, and give associates clear growth paths within the COE. • Coordinate with the other onsite COE Senior Manager in Chennai on shared coverage, standards, cross-training, and site-level matters.

What You'll Bring • 10+ years of experience in FP&A, financial systems, finance operations, or performance management, including 6+ years in planning and forecasting in a complex, multi-segment organization. • 3+ years leading teams, preferably including people managers or senior individual contributors. • Strong understanding of planning, forecasting, workforce planning, month-end close, and financial reporting processes. • Hands-on experience with OneStream or a comparable Enterprise Performance Management platform (e.g., Hyperion/Essbase, Oracle EPM, Anaplan). Administration or build experience is strongly preferred. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, Transformation, Product, and Engineering teams. • Demonstrated success driving process improvement, governance, controls, and operational excellence. • Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication, with the ability to explain the story behind the numbers and influence across organizational boundaries and time zones. • Passion for developing teams and building scalable, sustainable solutions that improve business outcomes at enterprise scale. Preferred: CA, CMA, CPA, or MBA (Finance). Experience with U.S.-based retail or global capability center models. Familiarity with Agile delivery, data modeling, and AI or automation tools applied to finance. Working Model • In-office role at the Walmart Chennai office. • Regular overlap with U.S. Central Time is required for stakeholder meetings and cycle-critical activities, with additional flexibility during peak plan, forecast, and close windows. • Matrix role: day-to-day functional priorities are set with the Bentonville functional leader, and administrative and site matters are handled with IDC Finance leadership in Chennai.

About Walmart Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate on a scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail. Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Chennai office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone. At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications... Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 4 years' experience in accounting, finance, or related area OR 6 years' experience in accounting, finance, or related area. 1 year's experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.

Preferred Qualifications... Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data Analysis and Insights, Microsoft Office, Working in a large corporate environment, agency, or headquarters, Working in a matrixed organization

Primary Location... Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India