Senior Accounting Manager

About the Role

This is an individualcontributor rolewho is responsible for leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance analysis to support strategic decision-making. The role involves overseeing financial operations, ensuring compliance and governance, managing stakeholder relationships, and driving process improvements while leading and developing high-performing standards.

What you'll do

· Provides strategic leadership and governance for annual statutory audits across Singapore companies; establishing audit strategy, annual cadence, and executive reporting framework; and serving as senior escalation point with external auditors and internal stakeholders for technical accounting, audit queries, and complex statutory issues.

· Ensures compliance with the Singapore Companies ACT, ACRA filing requirements, and SFRS/SFRS(I) standards; maintaining a robust compliance control framework aligned with global finance governance policies; and assessing regulatory developments and advising leaders on their operational and reporting implications.

· Oversees Singapore tax compliance activities for Singapore companies including CIT returns, ECI, GST filings, and withholding tax; partnering with global tax on alignment between statutory outcomes, tax computations, and transfer pricing; managing interactions with IRAS, supporting tax reviews, audits, and dispute resolution; and providing governance around tax exposures arising from restructuring, funding models, and intercompany arrangements.

· Provides executive oversight of the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of books and records for Singapore companies; ensuring local books reflect appropriate SFRS/SFRS(I) accounting treatments and are fully reconciled to global ERP systems, and management reporting; overseeing period‑end close processes supporting statutory and tax outputs; strengthening documentation, reconciliations, and audit trails to ensure audit readiness; and leading process improvements to enhance data quality, standardization, and system controls.

· Provides authoritative guidance on complex accounting matters; partnering with global accounting teams to interpret new standards and determine applicability in Singapore; and ensuring consistency of accounting policies, and disclosures across all Singapore companies.

· Collaborates with enterprise business solutions (EBS), global controllership, international tax, treasury, legal, corporate secretariat, and business units to support entity lifecycle management, including cash movements; champions readiness for new business models, system implementations, and structural changes affecting Singapore; and aligns statutory reporting outcomes with tax positions, transfer pricing models, and funding structures.

· Enhances statutory, tax, and data protection governance processes; overseeing remediation of audit findings and control gaps; and driving continuous improvement and automation within statutory and compliance workflows.

· Oversees compliance with the PDPA, including maintaining data protection policies, governance processes, and employee training; acting as the primary contact for the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and managing regulatory submissions or inquiries; leading personal data incident response, ensuring investigation, remediation, and statutory notifications where required; conducting periodic data protection risk assessments and partner with Legal, IT, Security, and HR to embed privacy controls into business processes; and providing guidance on appropriate handling, storage, retention, and protection of personal data across Singapore operations.

· Leads and assists high‑performing teams across statutory audit, tax compliance, and data protection; managing external auditors, tax advisors, corporate service providers, and privacy consultants; and fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Travel

· Traveling may be necessary to perform one or more essential functions of this position.

· Occasionally travels internationally to and from multiple facilities or worksites requiring extended overnight stays.

Entry Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field and 5 years experience in accounting, income tax compliance, payroll tax, or related area OR 7 years experience in accounting, income tax compliance, payroll tax, or related area.

· Master's degree in business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Taxation, Law or related field or Juris Doctor (J.D.).

· 3 years experience leading cross-functional projects.

· Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant

This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities and qualifications for this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and is subject to change based on business needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 welcoming of all people.

Walmart doesn't charge any recruitment or similar fee in the recruitment process, including but not limited to interview, offering, and onboarding.