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Job Description:
Ingram Micro Thailand’s CFE and lead finance (executive) reports dually to the Thailand Chief Country Executive (CCE) and the Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Chief Finance Executive (CFE). This position on is a key member of the Thailand Leadership Team, providing strategic financial guidance, commercial drive, decision support to enhance growth opportunities, and op mal risk mi ga on and strong governance for the business to achieve desired earnings and working capital targets.
The CFE-Thailand collaborates with country, corporate, and regional finance, operations, and business teams. It has direct responsibility for Ingram Micro Thailand’s full P&L and balance sheet and leads several teams and objectives, including business finance decision support, planning, and forecast cycles, financial analysis and insights, controllership, financial accounting, taxation on, treasury, and SOX internal control, among several others.
Roles and Responsibilities
Strategic Finance
- Partner closely with the Thailand CCE and the country leadership team to support strategy development for the Ingram Micro Thailand business and deploy strategic business initiatives and capabilities (i.e., Xvantage, go-to-market, demand generation, and others).
- Help enable the robust and controlled execution of financial targets, such as P&L and balance sheet management, revenue growth, margin/revenue mix, net income, working capital, OPEX management/leverage, ROIC, ROWC, etc.
- Lead the full-cycle management of Ingram Micro Thailand’s annual budget and forecasting processes, including long-range, to ensure optimal understanding of revenue and margin trends, how resources are deployed, and how the business tracks relative to plans.
- Provide commercial insights across the business to exceed plan targets and lead the continuous evaluation of strategic financial objectives, including providing creative ideas/solutions that optimize margin performance (e.g., deal terms, structured finance products, pricing/incentive programs, supply chain, and operational margin optimization, operational excellence/leverage/scale, credit risk/cash/liquidity/working capital expert management).
- Partner with corporate, regional, and country functions to assess develop, and broker, the functional expertise needed to support the execution of business strategies; while liaising with regional teams, finance, ops, digital/IT, HR, legal, compliance, and others.
- Serve as key Finance liaison in support of M&A impacting Ingram Micro Thailand. Gatekeeper Finance
- Maintain a strong understanding of Ingram Micro Thailand’s complex business model, go-to market strategies, industry trends, and business risks & opportunities to provide an objective perspective and constructively evaluate commercial decisions to achieve profitability targets while ensuring decisions are grounded in solid financial criteria and governance.
- Own the numbers and financial insights and stand behind the process, governance, and controls to ensure GAAP accuracy, financial integrity, and effectiveness.
- Build a strong Finance team in all critical gatekeeping aspects and oversee end-to-end financial processes: OTC, PTP, HTP, financial close/reporting, credit/financing, tax, and external audit procedures. This includes the design and execution of proper internal controls, all in compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks, GAAP requirements, and internal policies. Finance Operator
- Manage Ingram Micro Thailand’s capital requirements and, in close collaboration with regional and corporate finance teams, administer and optimize the return on Ingram Micro Thailand’s financial position and investments, including working capital.
- Closely work with business partners in managing, optimizing, and evaluating trade-offs on working capital levels and all its major components: DSO, DIO, and DPO.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in all business processes influenced and touched by Finance that leverage new tools, automation, and best practices to improve the team's work efficiency, velocity, accuracy, control, and insightfulness.
- Direct the Ingram Micro Thailand team to support enterprise projects to transform finance delivery models through standardizing finance processes, systems and controls, automation, and improved insight generation. Leadership
- Lead several local teams, including finance, controllership, treasury, credit, collections, accounts receivable/payable, tax, and supply chain planning, among others.
- Ensure Finance Thailand is appropriately skilled, staffed, and organized in all critical capabilities: commercial finance (e.g., FP&A and business finance, specialist finance (e.g., controllership, tax, treasury, controls) and operational finance (AP, AR, GL, Others) and drive for continuous bench development.
- Cultivate and lead a highly engaged and high-performing team that produces rich and impactful business insights and different solutions (including credit and financing products), financial reports, plans, and forecasts with high clarity, accuracy, and robust internal control resiliency.
What you bring to the role:
Professional Skills & Characteristics
Charisma c leadership presence with a solid ability to partner closely with executives and develop high-performing teams, including developing benches for future business or finance leader roles.
Robust executive presence, professional maturity, and diplomacy skills to inspire trust within the organization.
A true business partner who works effectively and creatively with others in the organization on to figure out how to successfully achieve goals while maintaining financial integrity and strong financial internal controls.
Influence, networking, and collaboration on skills to manage interdependency between global, local/function on and BU’s
Strong financial and analytical acumen and business insights with the ability to draw fast conclusions on opportunities and an obsession to act even with imperfect information.
Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with extensive experience advising senior leaders.
Excellent communication and strong influencing skills across business func ons; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend posi ons.
Advanced financial modeling skills and experience with SAP or other large ERP environments, as well as digital mid-layer technologies such as for process/workflow automation, data analytics, and/or visualization, is a distinct plus (OneStream, Workiva, Alteryx, Tableau, Teradata, others).
Technical qualifications.
Ac ng or former business unit Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for a large multinational or similar or equivalent senior finance role with full P&L, Working Capital, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow ownership.
15+ years of experience in a multinational company across FP&A, commercial/business finance, analytics, controllership, financial gatekeeping, and corporate governance.
Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting. MBA and/or CPA-CA strongly preferred.
Experience in technology, distribution, and supply chain heavy industries with a growing ARR revenue profile and established or evolving digital capabilities.
Thailand-centric experience with exposure to working in multiple jurisdictions; expanded APAC experience is a distinct plus.
Strong knowledge of GAAP, internal control policies, and procedures; USGAAP and US SOX experience is highly preferred.
Travel Readiness: Ability to travel domestically or internationally.
