Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics - Wage & Hour Compliance

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

15h • $80,000 - $155,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Walmart’s Wage & Hour Compliance team to operationalize a best‑in‑class program for the world’s largest retailer. About Wage & Hour Compliance Walmart’s Wage & Hour Compliance team sets the standards, controls, and monitors the operational components to keep our people practices compliant, practical, and scalable across a complex, high‑volume enterprise. We translate evolving legal requirements into clear policies, training, and controls, and we partner with HR, Legal, Operations, and Technology to embed compliance by design into systems and processes—protecting associates and the company while enabling operational excellence.

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience in wage and hour compliance, policy operations, or regulatory change management within complex, matrixed environments; retail or high‑volume operations experience preferred.
• Strong regulatory analysis skills with the ability to translate statutes, rules, and guidance into clear business requirements and actionable process changes.
• Proficiency in developing and maintaining policies, controls, and audit/monitoring artifacts; comfort with documentation rigor and version governance.
• Analytical fluency with dashboards, metrics, and data storytelling to drive decision‑making; demonstrated root cause analysis and issue management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and drive alignment with cross‑functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and 2 years’ experience in compliance, ethics, legal, project management, or related area OR 4 years’ experience in compliance, ethics, legal, project management, or related area.
• 2 years’ experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field
• Project Management Certification
• Supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• Support the Wage & Hour Compliance program pillars (Pay, Timekeeping, Scheduling or Benefits) identifying and driving change to align policy, systems, and practices to regulations and strategy.
• Create and test change activities in coordination with Legal and stakeholders ensuring deadlines are met.
• Update program documentation (policies, knowledge articles, job aids, operational procedures, etc.) to enable consistent execution and contribute to standards and controls.
• Drive end-to-end change execution, partnering to implement compliant solutions and monitoring to ensure ongoing adoption and mitigation of risk and/or roadblocks.
• Support audit and monitoring by developing scripts, evidence requests, track findings through remediation, root cause analysis and verification of effectiveness.
• Build and maintain KPI/KRI dashboards and monthly reporting to identify trends, surface risks, and inform prioritization; responsibly leverage AI tools to increase accuracy, speed, and scale.

Benefits

• 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.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees