Vice President and CFE - Global Platform Group

Ingram Micro Inc; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 471,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Micro Inc. in Irvine, California is seeking a Finance Leader for the Global Platform Group to drive FP&A, strategic planning, and governance across a digital transformation initiative.

The role partners with the GPG executive team to deliver accurate forecasting, budgeting, and performance insights, ensuring platform profitability and compliant financial reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required.
• MBA and CPA highly preferred.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Financial Partner Leadership: collaborate with the GPG executive team to drive strategy development and provide financial oversight.
• Business Insight & Advisory Role: provide informed recommendations on financial impacts of strategic decisions.
• Financial Leadership & Strategic Objectives: deliver insights to exceed business plan targets and support long‑term objectives.
• Budget & Forecasting Process Management: lead annual budgets and monthly forecasting with KPI evaluations.
• Project Support & Cost Optimization: identify cost reductions and manage the annual budget process.
• Xvantage Evolution Support: drive platform penetration and profitability through deployment and enhancements.
• Strategic KPI Ownership: ensure accurate calculation and reporting of key KPIs for the digital transformation.
• End‑to‑End Financial Operations & Modeling: manage close procedures, internal controls, and capital investments.

Skills

FP&A experience

Commercial/Business Finance

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

ERP systems (SAP)

Data analytics

Communication skills

Education

MBA

CPA

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

Tools

SAP

OneStream

Tableau

Workiva

Alteryx

Teradata

Job description

Accelerate your career. Join the organization that's driving the world's technology and shape the future. Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts. Our market reach, diverse solutions and services portfolio, and digital platform Ingram Micro Xvantage™ set us apart. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow – it’ll be a fun journey! 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.

GPG Finance Leader: 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.

Roles & Responsibilities

Financial Partner Leadership: This position collaborates closely with the extended GPG executive team to drive strategy development and provide robust financial oversight. Responsibilities include conducting recurring analyses and process reviews—covering current processes, actual vs. budget performance, and prior‑year comparisons—and preparing operational data and analyses to support optimal decision‑making. Business Insight & Advisory Role: With a deep understanding of Ingram Micro’s business model and industry, this role provides informed recommendations to the CDO and GPG executive team on the financial impacts of strategic decisions. Acting as a constructive gatekeeper, this position ensures all strategic decisions are anchored in sound financial and governance principles. Financial Leadership & Strategic Objectives: Provides financial insights and leadership across GPG, aiming to exceed business plan targets and supporting both short‑ and long‑term strategic financial objectives. Budget & Forecasting Process Management: 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. Project Support & Cost Optimization: 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. Xvantage™ Evolution Support: 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. Strategic KPI Ownership: 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. End‑to‑End Financial Operations & Modeling: Manages efficient end‑to‑end close procedures and essential internal controls for GPG processes. This role also provides financial modeling, analysis, and support for capital investments and ad hoc projects, alongside routine reporting for senior management. Compliance & GAAP Rigor: Works closely with Corporate Controllership to ensure rigorous GAAP application and SOX‑compliant internal controls for GPG financial reporting processes. Responsibilities include labor capitalization for internal software, asset life determination for Agile‑developed assets, and ongoing impairment evaluation of the GPG asset portfolio. Continuous Improvement Mindset: 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. People Leadership Team Management & Development: 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. Cultivating Financial Excellence: Leads a Finance team focused on delivering insightful, accurate financial reports, plans, and forecasts. Also prioritizes team development and effective succession planning to ensure long‑term strength in financial leadership.

Experience / Skills

Experience / Skills Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required. MBA and CPA highly preferred. 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. Experience with platforms such as OneStream, Workiva, Alteryx, Tableau, Teradata, or similar solutions is preferred. 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.

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $247,700.00 - $470,600.00 per year. The ranges above reflect the potential annual base pay across the U.S. for all roles; the applicable base pay range will depend on the candidate’s primary work location, pay grade, and variable compensation plan. Individual base pay within each range depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time of hire. New hires starting base pay generally falls in the bottom half (between the minimum and midpoint) of a pay range. At Ingram Micro certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus or sales incentives and long‑term incentives.

U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others.

This is not a complete listing of the job duties. It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all these duties.

Please be prepared to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre‑employment (post offer) background check.

Ingram Micro Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.

With us, you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. It’ll be a fun journey! Learn more at http://careers.ingrammicro.com