Vice President and CFE - Global Platform Group

Ingram Micro•Irvine, CA

55d•$247,700 - $470,600•Onsite

About The Position

Ingram Micro's Global Platform Group (GPG) is driving a comprehensive transformation to unify Ingram Micro’s entire digital and IT technical infrastructure—including systems, tools, and talent—into an integrated service model focused on Plan, Build, Enhance, and Run capabilities. This model is designed to fully support Ingram Micro’s strategic objectives by enhancing customer experience, advancing operational excellence, and optimizing cost-to-serve. Aligned with Ingram Micro’s broader technological transformation, the GPG team is leveraging the Xvantage™ platform to modernize technology and IT processes, systems, and services on a global scale—encompassing corporate, regional, and local levels. This modernization effort aims to establish a technology infrastructure with 24/7/365 reliability, scalability, and redundancy to support the business’s long-term growth and resilience. As GPG’s lead finance executive, this position is a key member of the GPG Senior Leadership Team, providing strategic financial guidance, critical gatekeeping and optimal decision support for GPG as it achieves its strategic objectives and helps Ingram Micro achieve desired financial performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of key business drivers and metrics applicable to GPG (Digital, IT, Platform Capabilities) as well as sophisticated financial models to deliver value and has a track record of driving best practices by implementing new technology and processes on a FP&A and/or commercial-business finance organization and supporting an organization that is going through transformative digital and agile change.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required.
15+ years of progressive responsibility within a large corporate finance function with a minimum of 5-10 years of FP&A Commercial/Business Finance management experience.
Experience working cross functionally across a global organization is ideal.
Experience in technology, distribution and supply chain heavy industries with a growing ARR revenue profile and established digital capabilities.
Demonstrated success by increasing shareholder value, enhancing company valuation, and delivering sustainable net-new revenue growth through strategic leadership, capital markets expertise, M&A execution, and disciplined capital allocation in a publicly traded global organization.
Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting, SOX compliance, financial governance, and enterprise risk management, with a proven ability to maintain strong internal controls, safeguard financial integrity, and uphold the highest standards of regulatory and fiduciary accountability.
Exceptional financial and business acumen, with the ability to rapidly synthesize complex information, identify value creation opportunities, make sound strategic decisions and drive decisive action with imperfect information.
Exceptional analytical, problem solving and communication skills with extensive experience advising senior leaders.
Highly motivated individual with a strong sense of urgency, proven ability to work effectively cross-functionally and rigorous attention to detail to meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
Excellent communication and strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend positions.
Demonstrated success leveraging advanced financial systems, ERP platforms (SAP or equivalent), automation, data analytics, and visualization technologies to enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, strengthen controls, and drive enterprise value creation.
Charismatic leadership presence with a strong ability to develop high-performing teams and strong performance management skills to quickly assess team capabilities and effectively manage performance.
This role is based in the Irvine, California World Headquarters with approximately 20% global travel.
Must be prepared to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre-employment (post offer) background check.

Nice To Haves

MBA and CPA highly preferred.
Experience with platforms such as OneStream, Workiva, Alteryx, Tableau, Teradata, or similar solutions is preferred.

Responsibilities

Collaborates closely with the extended GPG executive team to drive strategy development and provide robust financial oversight.
Conducts recurring analyses and process reviews—covering current processes, actual vs. budget performance, and prior-year comparisons—and prepares operational data and analyses to support optimal decision-making.
Provides informed recommendations to the CDO and GPG executive team on the financial impacts of strategic decisions.
Acts as a constructive gatekeeper, ensuring all strategic decisions are anchored in sound financial and governance principles.
Provides financial insights and leadership across GPG, aiming to exceed business plan targets and supporting both short- and long-term strategic financial objectives.
Leads a streamlined, effective process for preparing annual budgets and monthly forecasting reports, including function-specific KPI evaluations, budget comparisons, and detailed executive-level explanations of any variances.
Assists GPG in implementing major projects, identifying cost reduction opportunities, improving operations, managing the annual budget process, forecasting performance, and conducting rigorous post-mortem analyses for GPG investments.
Collaborates closely with the GPG executive team, as well as Country CCEs and CFEs, to drive increased Xvantage™ platform penetration and profitability through incremental platform development, functionality enhancements, and effective deployment.
Acts as a vital gatekeeper for accurate calculation, source of truth, and reporting of key strategic KPIs relevant to Ingram Micro’s digital transformation, including ARR and channel cost to serve.
Manages efficient end-to-end close procedures and essential internal controls for GPG processes.
Provides financial modeling, analysis, and support for capital investments and ad hoc projects, alongside routine reporting for senior management.
Works closely with Corporate Controllership to ensure rigorous GAAP application and SOX-compliant internal controls for GPG financial reporting processes.
Champions a continuous improvement approach within the GPG Finance team, leveraging new tools, automation, and best practices to enhance efficiency, speed, accuracy, and insightfulness in financial operations.
Recruits, supervises, and manages a high-performing finance team, maintaining key relationships with business partners and Finance stakeholders—including country/regional finance teams, controllership, treasury, tax, and internal audit.
Leads a Finance team focused on delivering insightful, accurate financial reports, plans, and forecasts.
Prioritizes team development and effective succession planning to ensure long-term strength in financial leadership.
Implements structured monitoring for growing “Run” digital spend areas that are expected to evolve/grow significantly over time, including AWS/Cloud expenditure, external labor efficiency, and other emerging categories.
Establishes a rigorous framework for critical KPIs, including Cost to Serve and ARR, ensuring calculations, controls, and processes are standardized for potential external use.
Improves controls and compliance processes around intellectual property and patent creation to protect GPG’s assets and intellectual capital.
Establishes a close partnership with Controllership and Internal Audit to ensure any brewing SOX-associated developments and risks in out OTC processes are captured and supported timely (e.g., significant ICFR risks/controls developed upstream beyond central finance systems).