Business Transformation Consultant-Finance Transformation

Introduction

Embarking on a career with IBM Consulting means establishing long-lasting relationships with clients and engaging in collaborative efforts across the globe. You will partner with top-tier companies in diverse industries to guide them through their hybrid cloud and AI transitions. With the backing of our strategic alliances, advanced IBM technologies, and Red Hat, you'll possess the resources needed to effect significant change and enhance client outcomes. At IBM Consulting, a spirit of inquiry drives our success. You will be encouraged to challenge conventions, investigate fresh concepts, and devise innovative solutions that yield tangible results. Our culture prioritizes growth and empathy, focusing on your career advancement while recognizing your distinct skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant with a focus on Finance Transformation, you will assist clients in formulating strategies that establish and maintain competitive advantages. Your role will involve identifying essential strategic capabilities and evaluating client performance gaps to provide thorough transformation recommendations.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Transformation Strategies: Create detailed transformation recommendations that encompass financial consolidation, closing and reporting, as well as planning, budgeting & forecasting, and financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management.
• Optimize Financial Processes: Assist clients in refining financial consolidation, closing, and reporting processes, which include designing and configuring charts of accounts and expediting closing processes.
• Support Planning and Budgeting: Aid in the formulation of planning, budgeting & forecasting strategies, including the evaluation, selection, and design of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) packages.
• Enhance Financial Intelligence: Contribute to financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management initiatives, such as rationalizing financial and non-financial KPIs, designing balanced scorecards, and developing executive dashboards.
• Assess Client Performance: Identify necessary strategic capabilities and evaluate client performance gaps to guide transformation recommendations.
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Finance Transformation Expertise: Proven experience with financial consolidation, closing, and reporting processes, including chart of accounts design and configuration, as well as speeding up closing processes.
• Strategic Capability Assessment: Demonstrated experience in pinpointing essential strategic capabilities and assessing client performance gaps to inform transformation recommendations.
• Enterprise Performance Management: Familiarity 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 efforts, such as rationalizing financial and non-financial KPIs and designing balanced scorecards.
• Transformation Strategy Development: Background in creating comprehensive transformation recommendations that address financial consolidation, closing and reporting, as well as planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

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