Position Summary...

The Senior Manager, Finance (Food SBU) leads end-to-end financial planning, analysis, and decision support for the Food Strategic Business Unit. This role is accountable for driving profitable growth and financial efficiency through rigorous P&L management, budgeting and forecasting, performance management, and investment governance. The Senior Manager partners closely with Food business leaders and cross-functional teams (e.g., Merchandising, Replenishment, Central Operations, eCommerce, Controllership, Supply Chain, Real Estate) to translate strategy into financial plans, identify risks and opportunities, and ensure disciplined execution.

What you'll do...

Scope & impact

• Owns and influences financial outcomes for Food portfolio.
• Leads the cadence of weekly/monthly performance reviews, forecast updates, and executive-ready narratives.
• Drives standardization and continuous improvement across FP&A processes, tools, and reporting.
• Develops and leads a high-performing finance team; provides coaching and capability building across the broader finance community.

Key responsibilities

1) Financial planning, budgeting & target setting

• Leads in the annual budget process for the Food SBU by partnering with business leaders to set targets and align divisional goals to market dynamics, historical performance, and planned investments.
• Translates strategic priorities into financial plans, including sales, margin, operating expense, and working capital assumptions.
• Ensures alignment between management reporting (e.g., MFP) and financial reporting definitions in partnership with Controllership and Central Operations.

2) Forecasting, performance management & business reviews

• Leads in the monthly forecast cycle, coordinating inputs from business leads and cross-functional partners; update outlooks to reflect changing business conditions.
• Manages P&L results through structured business reviews, proactively analyzing trends, identifying risks/opportunities, and recommending corrective actions to achieve targets.
• Ensures timely and accurate reporting of sales, gross profit, and key drivers as part of month-end close and forecasting activities.
• Drafts clear, executive-ready variance narratives and KPI commentary; communicates insights and actions with clarity and influence.

3) Long-range planning & strategic decision support

• Leads in the long-range planning (LRP) process by developing operational and financial strategies based on trends, planned changes, and scenario analysis.
• Partners with business leaders to identify enablers for goal achievement and develop alternatives to address gaps (e.g., pricing, mix, promo, supply chain levers, cost actions).
• Provides financial leadership on strategic initiatives, including sizing opportunities, evaluating trade-offs, and supporting prioritization.

4) Investment governance, ROI & business cases

• Supports strategic projects by providing ROI analysis, financial modeling, and investment prioritization based on strategic importance and return.
• Provides governance for capital/project spend, ensuring disciplined tracking, benefits realization, and adherence to methodology (aligned with Investment Finance standards where applicable).

5) Cross-functional partnership & financial alignment

• Serves as a key interface with broader Merch Finance and enterprise finance partners to ensure reporting and analytic requirements are understood and delivered to standard.
• Partners with Controllership to ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of financial data and reporting.

7) Process improvement, systems & standardization

• Identifies and implements enhancements across financial systems, reporting, and planning processes to improve speed, accuracy, and useful decisions.
• Drives standardization and simplification across FP&A ways of working; support multi-business unit initiatives to improve efficiency.
• Leverages digital tools, AI and automation opportunities to modernize reporting and insights.

8) People leadership & talent development

• Recruits, onboard, train, and mentor a team of finance professionals; set clear expectations and build strong engagement.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and development opportunities; recognizes accomplishments and address concerns.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and high standards of execution.

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

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 sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently 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 holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

The pay range for this position is $109,400.00 - $150,480.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

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L’échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 109,400.00 à 150,480.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l’expérience pertinente.

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Minimum Qualifications...

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

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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