Business Transformation Consultant-Finance Transformation

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant specializing in Finance Transformation, you will help clients develop strategies that create and sustain competitive advantages. You will identify the necessary strategic capabilities and assess client performance gaps to deliver comprehensive transformation recommendations.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Transformation Strategies: Develop comprehensive transformation recommendations addressing financial consolidation, close and reporting, planning, budgeting & forecasting, and financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management.
• Optimize Financial Processes: Help clients optimize financial consolidation, close and reporting processes, including chart of accounts design and configuration, and accelerate close processes.
• Support Planning and Budgeting: Assist with planning, budgeting & forecasting strategies, including Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) package evaluation, selection, and design.
• Enhance Financial Intelligence: Support financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management initiatives, such as financial and non-financial KPI rationalization, balanced scorecard design, and executive dashboard development.
• Assess Client Performance: Identify the necessary strategic capabilities and assess client performance gaps to inform transformation recommendations.
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Finance Transformation Expertise: Experience with financial consolidation, close and reporting processes, including chart of accounts design and configuration, and accelerating close processes.
• Strategic Capability Assessment: Experience in identifying necessary strategic capabilities and assessing client performance gaps to inform transformation recommendations.
• Enterprise Performance Management: Experience with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) package evaluation, selection, and design for planning, budgeting, and forecasting strategies.
• Financial Intelligence Development: Experience in supporting financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management initiatives, such as financial and non-financial KPI rationalization and balanced scorecard design.
• Transformation Strategy Development: Experience in developing comprehensive transformation recommendations addressing financial consolidation, close and reporting, planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• EPM Package Evaluation: Experience with evaluating, selecting, and designing Enterprise Performance Management packages for planning, budgeting, and forecasting strategies, including identifying client needs and assessing package functionality.
• Financial KPI Rationalization: Experience in rationalizing financial and non-financial KPIs, designing balanced scorecards, and developing executive dashboards to enhance financial business intelligence and analytics.
• Chart of Accounts Design: Experience designing and configuring charts of accounts to optimize financial consolidation, close, and reporting processes, and improve financial data management and analysis.