(IND) Senior Risk Expert

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About the Team

As a Manager, Global IT SOX – IT Readiness, you will play a key leadership role within Walmart’s Global Internal Controls organization, partnering with Technology, Finance, Compliance, and Audit teams to strengthen Walmart’s global IT control environment and support compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.

The IT Readiness Team is responsible for evaluating new technology implementations, significant technology changes, platforms, and existing applications to determine whether appropriate IT General Controls (ITGCs) are designed and implemented before solutions become SOX-relevant or transition into ongoing compliance.

In this role, you will lead a portfolio of complex IT SOX readiness and assessment initiatives while providing leadership and technical direction to associates. You will serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on ITGCs, technology risk, SOX readiness, cloud and technology platforms, application controls, and control remediation.

This role requires a combination of people leadership, technical understanding, risk-based thinking, project management, and executive-level communication. You will work across a highly complex global technology environment and influence stakeholders to ensure risks are understood, decisions are appropriately documented, and control gaps are addressed in a timely manner.

What You'll Do

Lead IT SOX Readiness and Assessment

• Lead end-to-endSOX ITGC readiness and assessment engagements for new technology implementations, significant changes, platforms, and existing applications across Walmart.
• Evaluate technology architecture, business processes, data flows, system interfaces, and dependencies to identify relevant SOX risks and determine appropriate control requirements.
• Assess thedesign and implementation effectiveness of ITGCs, including logical access, change management, program development, computer operations, interfaces, and other relevant technology controls.
• Apply risk-based judgment to determine whether controls appropriately address identified financial reporting and technology risks rather than relying solely on checklist-based compliance.
• Identify control design gaps and work with Technology and business stakeholders to develop practical and sustainable remediation plans before implementation or SOX transition.
• Evaluate technology platforms, databases, cloud environments, applications, and supporting tools against Walmart's IT control requirements.
• Ensure assessment conclusions are supported by appropriate evidence, documentation, and clearly articulated risk rationale.

Lead Complex Technology Risk Discussions

• Develop an understanding of application and platform architecture sufficient to identify technology risks, dependencies, interfaces, and potential impacts to financial reporting.
• Lead discussions involving modern technology environments, includingcloud platforms, SaaS solutions, databases, APIs, automated interfaces, DevOps/CI-CD environments, identity and access management, and emerging technologies.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business and control risks that can be understood by Technology, Finance, Compliance, and leadership stakeholders.
• Challenge existing processes and control designs when appropriate and help stakeholders develop controls that are both effective and operationally sustainable.

Manage a Portfolio of Assessments

• Manage multiple concurrent and highly complex IT SOX readiness and assessment initiatives from planning through completion.
• Establish clear milestones, deliverables, ownership, dependencies, and timelines for assigned engagements.
• Monitor portfolio health and proactively identify risks that could impact implementation timelines, control readiness, or SOX compliance.
• Drive timely resolution of open issues and escalate risks when remediation or stakeholder decisions are not progressing as expected.
• Maintain appropriate visibility of project status, key risks, decisions, and dependencies with leadership.
• Ensure completed assessments are effectively transitioned to the appropriate SOX support and monitoring teams.

Lead and Develop Associates

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to associates responsible for executing IT SOX readiness and assessment activities.
• Review associates' work and ensure conclusions demonstrate appropriatetechnical depth, risk-based thinking, professional judgment, and documentation quality.
• Develop associates' ability to move beyond task execution and understand the underlying risk, control objective, architecture, and business impact.
• Establish clear expectations and accountability for deliverables, quality, stakeholder engagement, and timelines.
• Provide timely and actionable feedback and create opportunities for associates to develop their technical, leadership, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages ownership, continuous learning, constructive challenge, and accountability.

Partner and Influence

• Build strong relationships with Technology, Engineering, Product, Finance, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit, and other stakeholders across Walmart.
• Influence application and technology teams to implement necessary control and process improvements before solutions transition into the SOX environment.
• Facilitate discussions where stakeholders may have differing perspectives on risk, scope, control requirements, or remediation approaches.
• Partner with internal and external audit teams to provide clarity on assessment conclusions, control designs, evidence, and remediation activities.
• Communicate complex issues clearly and concisely to senior leadership, including therisk, business impact, available options, recommended actions, and decisions required.

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve Walmart's IT SOX readiness and assessment methodology, processes, documentation, and governance.
• Promote consistency and scalability in how IT risks and controls are evaluated across applications, platforms, and markets.
• Identify opportunities to leverageautomation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve assessment quality, efficiency, monitoring, and risk identification.
• Stay current with evolving technology risks, regulatory expectations, industry practices, and emerging technologies that could impact Walmart's control environment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT SOX, technology risk, IT audit, cybersecurity risk, internal controls, or a related discipline.
• Strong practical knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), IT General Controls (ITGCs), COSO, COBIT, and technology risk management principles.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating, designing, implementing, testing, or validating IT controls.
• Experience identifying technology control gaps and partnering with stakeholders to develop and execute remediation plans.
• Strong understanding of business processes, technology risks, internal controls, and financial reporting dependencies.
• Experience managing multiple complex initiatives with competing priorities and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical and risk concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and professional judgment skills with an ability to develop practical, risk-based solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as CISA, CISSP, CIA, CPA/CA, CRISC, or equivalent.
• Previous experience in internal audit, external audit, technology risk, cybersecurity, SOX compliance, or a second-line risk and compliance function.
• Experience leading or developing associates and reviewing the work of other risk, audit, or compliance professionals.
• Experience assessing controls within large-scale cloud or technology environments such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, SaaS platforms, databases, and enterprise applications.
• Understanding of modern engineering practices, including Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and automated controls.
• Experience working within a large, complex, multinational organization.

You'll Sweep Us Off Our Feet If...

• You can look beyond a control checklist and identify the underlying technology and financial reporting risk.
• You have deep knowledge of SOX, ITGCs, technology risk, and internal controls and can apply that knowledge to modern technology environments.
• You are comfortable asking challenging questions and constructively influencing stakeholders at different levels of the organization.
• You can quickly understand complex technology architectures and translate them into clear risks, controls, and actionable recommendations.
• You demonstrate strong ownership and can independently drive complex initiatives from ambiguity through successful completion.
• You can balance compliance requirements with practical business and technology considerations.
• You develop people by setting clear expectations, providing meaningful feedback, and helping associates strengthen their risk-based and technical thinking.
• You are comfortable communicating with engineers, product teams, auditors, compliance professionals, and senior leaders.
• You are passionate about improving processes and exploring how automation, analytics, and AI can transform risk and compliance activities.
• You thrive in an environment where priorities evolve quickly and where success requires collaboration, sound judgment, and decisive execution.

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 on a scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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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