Senior Manager, Audit and Accounting Specialist

2 weeks ago

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States Walmart Full time
About the Role

As a Senior Manager, Audit and Accounting, you will play a critical role in managing the accounting, audit, and finance-related processes for our retirement plans as part of the financial benefits team. You will work closely with internal and external partners to lead our audit and financial reporting processes, ensuring compliance with accounting and audit standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the audit and financial reporting processes for financial benefit programs, including SOX compliance, 11-K audit and filing, Form 5500 review and filing, and other audit requests and financial reporting requirements.
  • Manage the financial processes of the team, including the weekly and bi-weekly payroll reconciliation process, and the submission of weekly and bi-weekly funding wires for payment to vendors.
  • Conduct regular plan monitoring and analysis to ensure that processes and systems are operating as expected throughout the year.
  • Coordinate with internal partners to provide financial benefits program information for use in the annual proxy statement.
  • Collaborate with internal partners to facilitate the transition of financial benefits-related processes from the legacy payroll system to SAP.
  • Manage accounting and audit projects by determining scope and objectives, developing cross-functional audit plans, determining and gathering resources from leadership in global markets, partnering with stakeholders and process owners for execution of plans, reviewing and validating audit planning memos, audit programs, test work, and reports, ensuring timely delivery and successful completion of projects, and following up with local markets to provide support and guidance to ensure process adherence.
  • Drive efficiencies in the accounting and audit process by recognizing automation and integration opportunities, creating common auditing methodologies, responding to critical business situations, and participating in cross-functional teams.
  • Communicate accounting and audit information to senior leadership by reviewing audit documents and work papers, documenting work papers, findings, and recommendations for management presentations, ensuring presentations, review reports, and correspondence are in alignment with internal audit standards, leading customer opening and closing conferences, resolving customer and team issues, and updating audit management and customer on issues and risks.
  • Drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, providing resources, identifying performance standards, measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly, developing contingency plans, and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
  • Provide supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team-based work environment, establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations, providing recognition and rewards, coaching for success and improvement, and ensuring diversity awareness.
  • Promote and support 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.
  • Ensure business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives, consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders, soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
  • Drive global audit framework and audit planning to mitigate risk to the company by collaborating with executive leadership in markets to define performance goals, metrics, and types of audits to be performed, and ensuring audit plans support business initiatives, creating and gaining approval for audit plans for global audit, creating and maintaining tools used to identify and measure risk to the company and determine audit focus, and sharing best practices across global audit teams.
  • Assign and direct accounting and audit staff in the validation of control design and effectiveness and identifies process deficiencies by testing performance of controls against Company procedures and/or external regulatory/accounting requirements, evaluating process efficiencies, and performing advanced data and analytical analysis.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, or related field and 4 years' experience in internal/external audit, management information systems, or related area OR 6 years' experience in internal/external audit, management information systems, or related area.
  • 1 year's supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in information technology, financial analysis, or relevant area.
  • Master's Degree in business or related field.
About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance, and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day.

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, abilities, ideas, and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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