Position Summary...

Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness. Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.

What you'll do...

Skillset: Internal/External Audit, SOX Compliance, Risk & Control.

Experience range: 6 - 12 years

Location: Chennai

About the team

This role is in the Global Internal Controls business process team. We are responsible for designing and maintaining internal controls over financial reporting for Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Walmart International.

About the position

Make an impact on an unbelievable scale!  We are uniquely positioned to thrive in a convergent digital and physical world.

Are you driven by supporting large scale internal controls initiatives for a compliance function? This is a great opportunity to be a key team member of the Walmart 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 support process improvement, innovation, and help enhance processes for a global company.

What you will do:

• Working 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.
• Partnering and building relationships with business and IT leaders across the company for seamless execution and goal alignment.
• Developing and executing projects plans and business requirements that align with the teams' strategic road map by collaborating with corporate, business, and technology partners to ensure cross-functional integration; providing recommendations on internal and external team resource needs for all projects and support functions; and assessing and communicating changes to project priorities.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects and functional support activities globally by coordinating associates and consultants to efficiently develop and deliver recommended solutions; ensuring project governance is enacted (for example, project methodology); aligning multiple project requirements; finding solutions to project issues; identifying and communicating adjustments to project milestones and transitions between project phases; identifying changes to project scope within established governance standards; escalating changes to supervisors; and reviewing system changes.
• Ensuring reporting compliance validating 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 the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Protecting the company with an effective and efficient control environment.
• Driving continuous improvement in the SOX compliance program.

What you will bring:

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting. (CA Preferred)
• You have SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) and Business Process Controls leadership experience.
• You have Accounting or Internal Audit experience for a global public company.
• You have 6+ years auditing experience in Big 4, regional public accounting firm or Fortune 500 company.
• 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’re organized, disciplined, and can manage competing priorities simultaneously.
• You’re a master at making complex subjects easily understood through visuals.
• You have ambitious standards and believe in accountability.
• You’re stimulated by challenges and tough problems.
• Bring a positive attitude and ready to demonstrate that no task is too big or too small.
• You have an accounting, IT (Information Technology) compliance or process improvement background.
• 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.

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 at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- 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 2 years' experience in finance, accounting, or related area OR 4 years' experience in finance, accounting, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Building technology platforms, Information Systems, Supervising Associates, Working on cross-functional teams or projects

Bachelors: Finance

Financial & Insurance - Certified Public Accountant - Certification

Primary Location...

Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India