Executive Director, Global IT - SAP FICO/FICA

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This position is in the Irvine, California corporate headquarters.

Your role:

The Executive Director, Global SAP Finance FICO/FICA is accountable for driving Ingram Micro’s enterprise integration strategies.  This position is responsible for formulating short-term and long-term strategies in the above-mentioned areas relative to Ingram Micro’s evolving SAP Finance technology platforms and application architecture.

Finance organization is integral in driving value creation across the business; therefore, the Executive Director of SAP Finance Transformation would demonstrate the following skills:

• Establish a clear and shared vision for your finance organization. Lead mission-critical program and project initiatives in areas of Finance Systems and Integrations. Actively seek out and drive continuous improvement opportunities across business processes and system solutions. Provide Solution Architecture in SAP Finance – FICO/FICA and S/4 Finance (2024).
• Extensive SAP FICO functional experience in covering the following areas; General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Bank Accounting (FI-BL), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Funds Management (FI-FM), Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL), Cost Element Accounting (CO-OM-CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA), Activity-Based-Accounting (CO-OM-ABC), Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA), Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center & Accounting (EC-PCA),  FICA, Contract Accounting and CI, convergent invoicing.
• Create a compelling and flexible implementation roadmap. Operate as a subject matter expert for SAP S4 FICO/FICA and other Finance Systems in the portfolio, be a point of contact for integration with upstream and downstream processes such as P2P, OTC and SCE.
• Design processes with users in mind. Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into systems solutions.
• Manage to both global and local complexities. Ensure adherence to global design, technical architecture, standards, audit and change management. Operationalize solution through hyper-care and transition to support teams. Manage projects including resource allocations, financials/budgets, work plans, issue & risk management, and status reporting.
• Establish strong governance for decision-making. Create an intelligent data framework.  Embed innovation at the heart of the program.
• Dynamic leader who can energize multi-discipline work teams to develop and execute strategies based on current and anticipated needs.
• Provides coaching, career development, and evaluations for direct reports.
• Establishes performance goals, develops measurable performance standards, and establishes necessary checkpoints to monitor progress.
• Demonstrates a personal commitment to a high-performance environment.
• Provides resource planning to support future initiatives and in proportion to project impact on the organization.
• Communicates decisions and policies in a way that establishes understanding and commitment.
• Provides direction in resolving conflicts, as well as coaching poor performers to improved levels of performance.
• Fully understands Ingram Micro’s policies and procedures. Acts in accordance with all company policies and can explain them to associates. May participate in developing new policies and procedures.
• Utilizes future foresight when leading and coaching associates.  

What you bring to the role:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering, math, or related field required, or equivalent combination of education and experience in SAP FICO/FICA/S4 Hana and education.
• 15 + years of SAP Finance experience, specific to ECC-FICO, FICA, and S/4 Finance, across multiple industries.
• Ability to drive process and system transformation to deliver end-to-end Finance solutions. Experience deploying Global Templates. End to End solutions
• Experience operating in a global SAP environment