MANAGER, CONTROLLERSHIP

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a member of the Finance team involved in business-critical decision-making through various accounting and FP&A functions, you will be part of the Controllership team responsible for managing Payroll Processing, Accounting and Compliance.

About Team: Finance
A career in finance at Walmart presents limitless opportunities to make a global impact. As the world’s largest retailer, Walmart depends on its finance team to deliver critical insights, strategic analysis, and informed guidance—whether it’s for launching new products or expanding into emerging markets.

If you're seeking a dynamic and challenging environment, Walmart offers no shortage of possibilities. You'll apply your analytical expertise to evaluate product performance, assess risks, and build robust financial models. You'll also contribute to high-impact strategic initiatives that drive the company’s continued growth.

No matter what your role within the finance organization, your work will help shape decisions that affect millions of lives around the world.

What you'll Do:

As a member of the Controllership team, you will play a key role in managing end-to-end payroll operations, including payroll processing, payments, and accounting. Your responsibilities will include:

• Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate with internal teams, payroll service provider, consultants to drive payroll delivery initiatives and ensure seamless execution.
• Operations: Responsible for preparation accounting entries (accruals / actuals). Share based compensation (RSU) Accounting, BRS entries, Actuarial valuations, and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with applicable regulations. End to end Inhouse payroll operations for India region.
• Month-End and Period-End Close: Lead the payroll-related month-end close process, including journal entry preparation and balance sheet reconciliations. Ensure timely and accurate completion of all accounting entries and reconciliations in line with the close calendar.
• Statutory Compliance: Manage payroll-related statutory requirements including TDS, PF, PT, and LWF. Ensure timely filing of quarterly and annual returns and issuance of Form 16. Advance Tax workings related to payroll (43B)
• Compliance and Controls: Maintain strong internal controls and up-to-date process documentation. Support internal and external audits and manage audit deliverables as required.
• Confidentiality and Accuracy: Handle all assignments with a high degree of confidentiality, precision, and attention to detail.
• Work Ethic and Flexibility: Demonstrate strong work ethics and the ability to work extended hours during critical periods such as quarter-end and year-end.
• System Management: Oversee payroll tools and systems, recommending and implementing upgrades or changes as needed.
• Communication: Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization. Strong ability to present complex financial data and insights in a clear, structured, and engaging manner.
• Audit Support: Assist in various audits—statutory, tax, internal, and IFC—and prepare monthly schedules as required.
• Process Improvement: Drive process efficiencies and automation initiatives to enhance payroll operations.
• Data Analysis: Analyze payroll data to generate meaningful insights that support decision-making. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What you'll Bring:

• A degree in Commerce (BCom), CA-Inter, ICWA, or a fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CA), with 10–12 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and procedures, with working knowledge of Indian Tax Laws, Labour Laws and Compliances.
• Experience handling SAP ERP systems.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, along with experience using Power BI and other reporting tools.
• Experience handling SAP ERP systems.
• Proven ability to lead and manage payroll-related projects, including implementation of new regulations, process improvements, and automation initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret payroll data and generate meaningful insights.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and procedures, with working knowledge of Indian Tax Laws and Labour Laws.
• Familiarity with US GAAP and Ind AS is a plus.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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