Senior Manager, Controllership

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

8d•$109,400 - $150,480•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Controllership is responsible for managing the completeness, accuracy, and existence of the Balance Sheet, P&L, and Working Capital activities across various domains. This role ensures financial statement accuracy, compliance with US GAAP, and supports continuous process improvements. The Senior Manager, Controllership manages the completeness, accuracy, and existence of various financial activities, including New Business Revenue, SG&A expenses, and real estate transactions. This includes overseeing month-end close processes, ensuring transactions comply with US GAAP, and maintaining an efficient control environment by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. This role may also lead accounting operations for specific projects or business areas such as Ecommerce, Supply Chain, and Real Estate. The Senior Manager is responsible for process redesign, stakeholder management, system changes, lease accounting, and controls for automation. They may also ensure new business opportunities are accurately accounted for, benchmark across markets, and communicate changes to senior management. The Senior Manager, Controllership builds relationships with business stakeholders to review key financial information, facilitate operational decision-making, and communicate results. The role will also manage relationships with service teams to ensure system and process enhancements result in accurate, timely financial information and compliance with accounting standards and regulations. The position supports and drives the execution of continuous process improvement plans, strategic objectives, and projects. The role will propose recommendations for policy and system changes to improve internal controls, financial information integrity, and departmental efficiencies. The role also involves coordinating materials for auditors and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and company policies.

Requirements

Nice To Haves

Leadership Expectations: Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
Acts with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Serve our Customers: Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.
Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Responsibilities

Manages the completeness, accuracy, and existence of various financial activities, including New Business Revenue, SG&A expenses, and real estate transactions.
Oversees month-end close processes.
Ensures transactions comply with US GAAP.
Maintains an efficient control environment by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
May lead accounting operations for specific projects or business areas such as Ecommerce, Supply Chain, and Real Estate.
Responsible for process redesign, stakeholder management, system changes, lease accounting, and controls for automation.
Ensures new business opportunities are accurately accounted for, benchmark across markets, and communicate changes to senior management.
Builds relationships with business stakeholders to review key financial information, facilitate operational decision-making, and communicate results.
Manages relationships with service teams to ensure system and process enhancements result in accurate, timely financial information and compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
Supports and drives the execution of continuous process improvement plans, strategic objectives, and projects.
Proposes recommendations for policy and system changes to improve internal controls, financial information integrity, and departmental efficiencies.
Coordinates materials for auditors and ensures compliance with relevant regulations and company policies.