Director, Finance - Marketplace Growth
About The Position
The Director, Marketplace Growth & Commercial Finance serves as a strategic finance partner to leaders driving seller, category, product, and platform growth across Walmart Marketplace. The role translates business strategy into financial plans, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes while balancing near-term performance with long-term value creation. It provides senior-level guidance on seller acquisition, assortment expansion, pricing, incentives, monetization, product, and technology. The Director brings commercial judgment and analytical rigor, influences decisions across a fast-moving, highly matrixed organization, and builds and develops a high-performing finance team. The role is part of Walmart’s Global Marketplace Finance team, which delivers financial clarity and actionable insights for key growth initiatives. The team supports broader assortment, faster fulfillment, and trusted customer and seller experiences through collaboration across Marketplace, Walmart Fulfillment Services, and enterprise teams. It translates strategy into measurable outcomes through long-range planning, forecasting, and performance management. The position leads financial planning, forecasting, and decision support across Marketplace growth and commercial priorities; develops business cases and measurement metrics for investments; and partners across business, merchandising, product, technology, analytics, strategy, and finance. It provides executive-ready recommendations, develops finance talent, strengthens analytical capabilities, creates scalable processes, and adapts to emerging priorities and strategic initiatives as the Marketplace expands globally and pursues revenue and profit opportunities. The primary location is 1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in financial planning, analysis, and management within complex organizations.
- Ability to develop and communicate long-term financial strategies aligned with corporate goals.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Demonstrated skill in managing operating budgets and preparing accurate financial statements.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence senior leadership with actionable financial insights.
- Experience ensuring compliance with financial controls and enhancing reporting transparency.
- Proficiency in assessing risks and driving improvements in financial processes and systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field and 5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or a relevant area, or 7 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or a relevant area.
- 2 years’ supervisory experience.
- 2 years’ experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
Nice To Haves
- Strategic planning experience.
- Experience working in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
- Master of Business Administration.
- Certified Public Accountant certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial planning, forecasting, and decision support across Marketplace growth and commercial priorities.
- Build business cases for seller, category, pricing, incentive, product, and technology investments.
- Establish financial and operational metrics to measure investment success.
- Partner with Business, Merchandising, Product, Technology, Analytics, Strategy, and Finance teams to evaluate trade-offs, allocate resources, and improve performance.
- Provide clear, executive-ready insights and recommendations to senior leaders.
- Develop and coach finance talent, strengthen analytical capabilities, and create scalable processes.
- Adapt to emerging priorities and complex strategic initiatives as Marketplace evolves, expands globally, and pursues revenue and profit opportunities.
- Support financial controls, reporting transparency, risk assessment, and improvements in financial processes and systems.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Live Better U education benefit program for eligible full-time and part-time associates, with tuition, books, and fees paid.
- Performance-based bonus awards, including annual or quarterly bonuses.
- Stock may be included as additional compensation for certain positions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
