Business Transformation Consultant-Finance Transformation

Introduction

A career at IBM Consulting is anchored in long-term client partnerships and meaningful collaboration across the globe. You’ll work alongside leading organizations across industries, supporting them as they define their hybrid cloud and AI transformation. Backed by strategic partners, IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll be equipped to create real change and speed up measurable client outcomes. At IBM Consulting, curiosity drives achievement—you’ll be encouraged to question the status quo, pursue new ideas, and build inventive solutions that deliver tangible results. Our growth- and empathy-focused culture supports your long-term career development while recognizing the value of your individual skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant with a specialization in Finance Transformation, you will help clients craft strategies that build and sustain competitive advantages. You’ll determine the strategic capabilities required and evaluate performance gaps to produce end-to-end transformation guidance.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Transformation Strategies: Create complete transformation recommendations covering financial consolidation, close and reporting, planning, budgeting & forecasting, and financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management.
• Optimize Financial Processes: Assist clients in improving financial consolidation and close and reporting, including chart of accounts design and configuration, while accelerating close activities.
• Support Planning and Budgeting: Contribute to planning, budgeting & forecasting approaches, including Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) package evaluation, selection, and design.
• Enhance Financial Intelligence: Enable financial business intelligence, analytics, and information management initiatives, including financial and non-financial KPI rationalization, balanced scorecard design, and executive dashboard development.
• Assess Client Performance: Determine the strategic capabilities needed and assess client performance gaps to support 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 identifying the strategic capabilities required and assessing client performance gaps to shape 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 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 creating comprehensive transformation recommendations covering financial consolidation, close and reporting, 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 identifying client needs and assessing package functionality.
• Financial KPI Rationalization: Experience rationalizing financial and non-financial KPIs, designing balanced scorecards, and developing executive dashboards to improve 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 strengthen financial data management and analysis.