Director, Finance - Labor Planning

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Live Better U education benefit

Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Director of Finance to lead the Fulfillment Center labor-planning organization in Bentonville, AR, driving demand-capacity alignment, staffing, productivity, backlog, and financial outcomes across the FC network.

You will guide a distributed Finance team and partner with Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting, and People to design and adopt scalable planning capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5+ years in accounting/finance or 7+ years experience.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.
• 2 years’ experience leading cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead network-wide Fulfillment labor-planning process and translate signals into actions.
• Own labor-plan quality, definitions, overrides, governance, and plan-versus-actual accountability.
• Oversee transition from Excel-based process to the SCLO Platform and manage change.
• Partner with Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting and People to improve capabilities.
• Connect short-range labor decisions with longer-term hiring, productivity, and financial plans.
• Lead distributed team of Finance leaders across FC divisions and sites.
• Quantify impact of labor decisions on productivity, overtime, backlog, and cost per case.
• Define future-state operating model with clear ownership and adoption responsibilities.

Skills

Finance leadership

Workforce planning

Operational decision support

Forecasting

Variance analysis

AOP

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

SCLO Platform

Excel

Job description

Position Summary...

The Director, Finance leads Walmart’s Fulfillment Center labor-planning organization and is responsible for both the current operating process and its transformation into a more automated, data-driven capability. This role owns the end-to-end mechanism that connects demand, capacity, staffing, productivity, backlog, schedules, and financial outcomes, translating forward-looking gaps into actions such as hiring, overtime, VTO, VOT, labor sharing, and capacity recovery. The Director leads a distributed team of Finance leaders, partners closely with Fulfillment Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting, and People teams, and drives the adoption of the SCLO Platform and optimization capabilities. The role is accountable for improving plan quality, reducing manual effort, strengthening plan-versus-actual execution, and shifting Finance capacity toward productivity, cost per case, service, and strategic workforce decisions.

What you'll do...

• 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 clearly defines business ownership, technical support, field adoption, and the responsibilities retained by centralized SCLO teams.

About the team...

Our team helps Walmart’s Fulfillment network make earlier and more precise workforce decisions by connecting demand, capacity, staffing, productivity, backlog, scheduling, and financial outcomes. We operate the existing labor-planning mechanism while building its future state through optimization, automation, advanced analytics, and the SCLO Platform. What makes the team unique is its embedded, cross-functional model: Finance works directly with Operations, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Forecasting, and People partners to turn complex operating signals into executable actions and measurable business outcomes.

What you’ll bring...

• 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.

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. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience

i n accounting, finance, or related area.

2 years’ supervisory experience.

2 years’ experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Strategic Planning, Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization

Masters: Business Administration

Financial & Insurance - Certified Public Accountant - Certification

Primary Location...

805 Respect, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.