Director, Finance and Strategy

$110,000 - $220,000/Yr

Sam's Club - Bentonville, AR

Full-time - Senior

Bentonville, AR

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

Join Sam's Club as a Director, Finance and Strategy, where your leadership and financial skills will help drive the company's strategic goals and initiatives, enabling growth for over 295 million global customers. This role requires strong financial acumen and analytical capabilities to deliver complex, cross-functional results while maintaining strong relationships across the business. You will be empowered to challenge business performance, foresee financial opportunities, and influence results through actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Business Planning by charting paths to exceed plan expectations and driving accountability.
• Develop actionable insights through a structured approach to solving business problems and identifying opportunities.
• Advise operations leadership by supporting priorities and providing a forward-looking lens for the business.
• Identify business growth ideas to generate demand and create risk mitigation plans.
• Enable strategic initiatives by facilitating collaboration and alignment to accelerate market share gain.
• Build relationships to expedite business decisions and actions.
• Transform ways of working by influencing finance teams to adopt new technologies and processes.
• Communicate effectively by preparing presentations and supporting materials for recommendations at all levels.
• Develop talent and leadership strategies to attract and maintain a skilled workforce.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field and 5 years' experience in accounting, finance, or related area OR 7 years' experience in accounting, finance, or related area.
• MBA highly preferred.
• 7+ years of Finance, Planning, Business Management experience.
• 4+ years of experience leading and completing cross-functional projects.
• 4+ years of team leadership experience.
• Experience working in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in Retail, Merchandising Planning and/or Finance.
• Experience working in Fortune 100 finance.
• Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Detail and results-oriented with a sense of urgency.
• Comfort with ambiguity.

Nice-to-haves

• Strategic Planning experience.
• Working in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
• Masters: Business Administration.
• Financial & Insurance - Certified Public Accountant - Certification.

Benefits

• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program covering tuition, books, and fees.