Director, Finance - Labor Planning

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

1d•$110,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Finance leads Walmart’s Fulfillment Center labor-planning organization, overseeing the current operating process and transforming it into a more automated, data-driven capability. The role owns the end-to-end mechanism connecting demand, capacity, staffing, productivity, backlog, schedules, and financial outcomes, translating forward-looking gaps into workforce actions such as hiring, overtime, VTO, VOT, labor sharing, and capacity recovery. The Director leads a distributed team of Finance leaders and partners with Fulfillment Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting, and People teams. The position drives adoption of the SCLO Platform and optimization capabilities, improves plan quality, reduces manual effort, strengthens plan-versus-actual execution, and shifts Finance capacity toward productivity, cost per case, service, and strategic workforce decisions. The team supports earlier and more precise workforce decisions across Walmart’s Fulfillment network by connecting operating and financial signals. It continues to operate the existing labor-planning mechanism while building its future state through optimization, automation, advanced analytics, and the SCLO Platform, using an embedded cross-functional model to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

Significant experience leading Finance, workforce planning, or operational decision support in a complex, multi-site environment.
Strong understanding of how demand, productivity, staffing, capacity, backlog, and scheduling interact to drive operational and financial outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to lead both a critical run-state process and a large-scale transformation simultaneously.
Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Operations, and People teams to translate business needs into scalable capabilities.
Strong analytical and financial acumen, including forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, AOP, and business-case development.
Proven ability to influence senior leaders, challenge unsupported assumptions, and translate complex analysis into clear operating decisions.
Experience leading distributed teams, developing talent, driving change, and building adoption across diverse stakeholders.
Comfort working through ambiguity while establishing clear priorities, decision rights, milestones, and accountability.
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.
Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
Master of Business Administration.
Certified Public Accountant certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the network-wide Fulfillment labor-planning process, translating demand, capacity, staffing, productivity, and backlog into executable workforce and financial actions.
Own labor-plan quality, operating definitions, assumptions, overrides, governance, and plan-versus-actual accountability across the FC network.
Lead the transition from the current Excel-based process to the SCLO Platform, including future-state process design, business requirements, readiness gates, adoption, support, and change management.
Partner with Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting, and People teams to prioritize capabilities and improve the accuracy, automation, and usability of the planning mechanism.
Strengthen bottom-up AOP planning and connect short-range labor decisions with longer-term hiring, productivity, capacity, and financial plans.
Lead and develop a distributed team of Finance leaders embedded with FC divisions and sites, creating clear expectations, consistent mechanisms, and strong succession pipelines.
Quantify the impact of labor decisions on productivity, overtime, backlog, service, cost per case, and the associate experience.
Establish a future-state operating model that defines business ownership, technical support, field adoption, and responsibilities retained by centralized SCLO teams.

Benefits

Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Company discounts.
Military Leave Pay.
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.