Vice President, Merchandise Finance, GM WMUS

Position Summary...

Drives the success of omnichannel merchandising pillars Home Hardlines Entertainment and Apparel through developing and executing business strategies to meet or exceed the financial goals. Influences the merchandising strategy by providing market and competitor intelligence ensuring inventory is forecasted connecting the dots for the right channel strategy pricing decision/choices enable delivery of key metrics store space allocation translate trends and insights to making pricing decisions capital investments new business development and M&A. Leads the cross-functional team; owns P&L accounting reporting analysis forecasting and communication helping drive solutions for business partners ensuring best results for customers and shareholders.

What youll do...

Key Priorities
Contributes to the business units overall strategy and operating plans from a broad business perspective with a focus on the financial elements of the business. Provides insights and the financial vision in the development of long-range and annual plans. Serve as a strategic partner for development of Merchandisings growth initiatives. Supports and drives alignment on the strategic direction of the business while considering the unique aspects of the unit to realize financial and operational objectives. Responsible for merchandise finance activities across Home Hardlines Entertainment and Apparel to ensure that merchandising area receives financial support and align objectives and priorities by working closely with the executive merchandising leadership; recommending actions based on financial analysis to identify emerging business trends issues to be improved and other potential impacts to business operations (for e.g. cost savings growth opportunities); acting as a financial business partner and a thought leader to enable merchandising department make better financial and business decisions and partnering with other areas of WMUS and finance. Provide direction on long range financial planning and analysis by reviewing business strategies; developing strategies with merchandising executive leadership of Home Hardlines Entertainment and Apparel to achieve strategic objectives; reviewing and providing direction on 3-5 year business plans annual business plans and overhead budgets; ensuring ownership by business owners; aggregating planning assumptions; presenting results to finance and merchandising division leaders; overseeing forecasting and operational profit and loss (P&L) financial models by analyzing financial information (for e.g. sales dollars comparable sales dollars percentage increase wage bills etc.); directing month end P&L processing and reporting of merchandising income statements and creating monthly executive P&L packets.
Deliver financial performance by identifying and overseeing implementation of strategic initiatives to drive financial benefits each area; overseeing upfront analysis and evaluation of program feasibility; providing market and competitor intelligence trends and insights partnering closely with the executive team to implement initiatives identify processes and obtain resource requirements (for example staffing capital); actively position portfolio to win individual departments needs as well as omni strategic initiatives; improve profitability of manufacturing programs partner with business stakeholders on $40Bn Apparel goal helping make key store space allocation decisions ensuring financial returns on infrastructure investment requests & overseeing guidelines for capital approval within Merchandising and ensuring that the portfolio tradeoffs align with companys broad financial goals.

Oversee development of and provide advice regarding annual sales and gross profit budget development with Management by preparing baseline budget and prior year actual results information; identifying business impacts (for example holidays falling in business week versus weekend or in different months in adjacent years new stores); reviewing proposed capital expenditure Capital Exchange projects and overhead/administrative budgets for Merchandise departments (Home Hardlines Entertainment and Apparel); ensuring the budget is updated for review and refinement; modeling sales and profit trends; reviewing Merchandise directors work; working with business partners to finalize budgets; and updating the budget throughout fiscal year. Ensure strong financial control environment for supported business areas by reviewing financial and business processes; assessing adequacy of controls embedded in processes; identifying areas for accounting and financial process improvement; developing accounting and financial process improvements; and directing documentation to support annual external financial audit.
Drives continuous improvement of the risk portfolio to ensure sufficient coverage for all anticipated exposures improve forecast accuracy through machine learning/AI; sales accuracy goal to 99-99.5% continue to improve capital process including post audit provide thought leadership on omni-PL ensuring merchants understand and can take appropriate actions while keeping business aligned on the overall goals
Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; Builds high performing teams; seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; serves as a talent scout who identifies attracts and retains best talent.

Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline; creates an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments.

Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve business objectives; and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action.

Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to support and reinforce our culture; champions Walmarts commitment of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity sustainability and community (e.g. creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers eliminating waste/emissions strengthening communities).

Act with Integrity: Ensures that organizations follow the law our code of conduct and company policies; drives an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and models our culture of non-retaliation; proactively gathers concerns raised by associates and takes action and models this for others; holds self and organization accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble self-aware honest and transparent.

Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.

Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a holistic end-to-end perspective that considers data analytics customer/member insights and different parts of the business when making plans and designing or executing strategies to capitalize on opportunities with global impact.

Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; creates an environment that supports learning innovation learning from mistakes and intelligent risk-taking; and models resilience in the face of setbacks.

Strive for Excellence: Acts as a change agent to drive continuous improvements; supports others through change; and guides the adoption of new technology and supports digital disruption in line with Walmarts business model.

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. 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 laws where applicable. For information about PTO see Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition books and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility see .
The annual salary range for this position is $225000.00 - $500000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

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

Bachelors degree in accounting or finance or 12 years relevant experience in accounting or financial planning
2 years in leadership role supporting a business segment

Preferred Qualifications...

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

CPA designation or MBA in Finance Extensive financial modeling experience Strong planning reporting and analytical skills with demonstrated business and systems impact in previous roles

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th St Bentonville AR 72716 United States of America

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