Product Manager

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This position is based in Irvine California Headquarters with the opportunity for a hybrid schedule.

Your role:

The Ingram Global Digital Solutions team is looking for a Product Manager - Finance to drive key Finance initiatives. As a Product Manager - Finance, you will be a critical part of the Product and Platform organization that owns feature development, prioritization, and launch for impactful new products. You will work with our customers, business stakeholders, Partners, UX, Engineering, data and AI teams to define product features, set priorities and lead launches. Key responsibilities will include Authoring Epics, User stories, and technical functional documents; Driving development across Data, AI, IT, Engineering, Design, and UX in alignment with customer, business, and Market requirements; diving into customer feedback, BI and other data to help prioritize and focus improvements and launches; help lead execution and delivery. We are looking for a smart and innovative product manager who is self-sufficient and thrives in ambiguity, has experience in setting product area strategies and roadmaps, has worked closely with Agile development teams, and can balance both business and technical demands. Success is measured through customer engagement, internal efficiencies, customer satisfaction, and delivery - in short you make a difference for our customers and our business!

We are looking for strong accounting and analytical skills to work with Finance stakeholders to ensure proper accounting rules are applied within best practice processes. As a Finance product manager, you must be proficient in both business and technical settings.

The Product Manager Finance would be responsible for defining Ingram Micro's global best practice standards in business processes, systems, data, and reporting.

• Define product area strategy, roadmaps, and the scope of work that align with the vision of the digital organization.
• Be the product owner for the Finance area working closely with the development team to deliver upon the strategy and roadmap through backlog development and execution.
• Meet with customers, partners, peers, and stakeholders, including key business stakeholders, to understand market and business requirements, opportunities, and challenges.
• Ensures global requirements and legal, statutory and/or customer contractual obligations are accounted for in the global solution.
• Supports the processes and system solutions to create both immediate as well as future business value.
• Serves as liaison to the global business community to ensure that its needs are fully understood by the project team.
• Help to build a strong culture within the scrum team.
• Contribute to long-term digital roadmap and strategy.
• Be an ambassador for all things digital within Ingram Micro and to champion transformation across the organization.
• Will possess detail understanding of the Finance and Accounting departments' requirements pertaining to business processes related to Recurring Billing and Revenue models.
• Drive requirements and to be processes in areas such as Credit Management, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, G/L, Revenue Recognition and Managerial/Financial Reporting.
• Estimation and project planning
• Model the business processes using process modeling tools like ARIS / VISIO.

The ideal candidate will be strong in the following areas:

• Finance Product Management and development, working together with business and technology teams to design, develop, or enhance presentation, engine, or data layer capabilities.
• Finance processes in areas such as Accounts Receivable, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Payable, Credits, Financial Planning, Reporting, etc.
• Understanding in various accounting standards such as US GAAP, IFRS and ASC606
• Strong advocate for internal and external customers and can convert their needs into prioritized roadmaps, epics, and stories.
• Technical knowledge, you must be able to converse effectively with technical teams and understand how your product works.
• Product area management, including creating strategy, roadmaps, and managing backlogs.
• Understanding of the key stakeholders and the associated business units
• Product knowledge of financial requirements and legal and statutory obligations
• Collaboration with development teams to define scope and processes within Agile Framework
• Ability to understand complex business and technical considerations and make appropriate decisions to ensure positive, global results.

What you bring to the role:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, science and math or business administration and a related technical emphasis is required. Preferred: an MBA (or equivalent) from a top-tier institution, or equivalent business experience.
• 5+ years of relevant finance product management experience within a digital/platform environment.
• Demonstrated experience in business requirements analysis, process engineering.
• Deep knowledge of Accounting and Finance, ability to translate accounting requirements to technical teams.
• Understanding in various accounting standards such as US GAAP, IFRS and ASC606
• Proficiency in MS office and SharePoint; knowledge of Visio and Project desired.
• Hands-on experience of working on at least one middleware tool on processes, translations, and other integration setups.
• Exposure to SAP functional areas - Order to cash, procure to pay, purchase cycle, invoicing, credit, supply chain execution and/or Finance, SAP BRIM.
• Experience with ERP Finance implementation projects is strongly preferred.
• Excellent presentation and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp new technology, and complex workflows.
• Ability to interact with engineers and designers on technical topics to identify best possible decisions.
• Data driven with the ability to define, track and act upon KPIs.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with product management, business strategy, technology strategy, and roadmap planning and scenario analysis.
• Fluent in Agile, Scrum, and, ideally, SAFe.
• Experience working in Jira, Confluence, and similar tools.

#DICE

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,000.00 - $173,400.00 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. These awards are allocated based on position level and individual performance. 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.

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Ingram Micro Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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.