IBM Global Solutions

Finance Strategy and Transformation Managing Consultant – Industrial Sector

IBM Global Services - Greater New York City Area

Job Description

IBM Global Business Services
Help Make the World Work Smarter

The world is getting smarter, triggering unprecedented change. IBM’s unparalleled ability to bring together deep business insight, advanced research, analytics, and technology enables IBM Global Business Services to help position its clients for the future. We leverage the proven roadmaps and frameworks that have been developed across 17 industries and the unique combination of skills and experiences of our teams in over 170 countries – unmatched capabilities. When you join IBM, you’ll partner with our clients, and leverage these capabilities to deliver real business value.

As a member of the world’s leading and largest consulting organization, you’ll tap into resources that only a global leader like IBM can provide: access to a vast and diverse network of talented professionals; enjoy unparalleled career opportunities; be provided with ongoing training and education that you’ll need to succeed; and work on some of the most interesting projects on the planet, helping everyone from organizations to local governments, work smarter.

The Finance Strategy and Transformation Managing Consultant will provide finance and accounting strategy as well as process and information content consulting services to Industrial clients; including companies in the automotive, aerospace/defense, electronics, and chemical/petroleum industries. In addition, they will focus on finance processes including management reporting and analytics, planning and forecasting, procure to pay, order to cash, general and project accounting.

A Managing Consultant also works with clients to improve their business in the following areas:

• key transactional finance processes
• management reporting and analytics
• planning and forecasting
• procure to pay
• order to cash
• general and project accounting

  Typical activities include:

• defining finance strategy/vision for a Finance Operating Model including the optimization of *transactional processing shared service operations or outsourcing operations
• benchmarking finance processes and identifying improvements and related benefits (i.e. business case)
• developing finance transformation strategy, specifically analysis of “as-is” versus “leading practices”
• identification of overall transformation plan
• improving accounting close and consolidation processes including analysis of journal entries and plans for accelerated close
• transforming financial reporting processes including the identification of key information requirements and associated reporting and analytics model
• planning and forecasting optimization by leveraging leading practice techniques.

  It is also expected that new hires live within a reasonable commuting distance (generally 50 mi or less) of the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Hartford, CT; Houston, TX; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Minneapolis, MN; New York City, NY and surrounding areas; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Tulsa, OK; and Washington, DC.

 

Desired Skills & Experience

Required

• Associate’s Degree/College Diploma
• At least 2 years experience in professional services consulting experience is preferred. public accounting experience and/or CPA is preferred
• At least 3 years experience in finance experience in industry (transactional and reporting and analysis experience) or at least 2-4 projects with relevant experience in public accounting or consulting.
• At least 2 years experience in electronics, aerospace and defense, automotive, or chemicals and petroleum industries
• At least 2 years experience in financial transformation projects
• At least 2 years experience in providing proposal support for financial management consulting projects
• At least 2 years experience in major ERP vendors (SAP, Oracle) in a project environment and reporting planning tools ( Hyperion, Cognos)
• At least 2 years experience in reporting and planning tools
• Readiness to travel Up to 4 days a week (home on weekends-based on project requirements)
• English: Basic knowledge

Preferred

• Master’s Degree in Accounting/Finance
• At least 5 years experience in professional services consulting experience is preferred. public accounting experience and/or CPA is preferred
• At least 5 years experience in finance experience in industry (transactional and reporting and analysis experience) or at least 2-4 projects with relevant experience in public accounting or consulting.
• At least 5 years experience in electronics, aerospace and defense, automotive, or chemicals and petroleum industries
• At least 5 years experience in financial transformation projects
• At least 5 years experience in providing proposal support for financial management consulting projects
• At least 5 years experience in major ERP vendors (SAP, Oracle) in a project environment and reporting planning tools ( Hyperion, Cognos)
• At least 5 years experience in reporting and planning tools
• Licensed in CPA
• English : Fluent

Additional information
To be an official applicant to IBM, you must submit a resume and online application. Resumes submitted remain active for six months.

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IBM 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, or veteran status.

Company Description

IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients’ most intractable business and competitive problems. Although we remain committed, as ever, to lead the development of state-of-the-art technologies, and the products and service offerings built around them, we measure ourselves today by how well we help clients solve their biggest and most pressing problems. IBM’s clients include many different kinds of enterprises, from sole proprietorships to the world’s largest organizations, governments and companies representing every major industry and endeavor. The majority of the company’s enterprise business, which excludes the company’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) technology business, occurs in industries that are broadly grouped into six sectors: § Financial Services: Banking, Financial Markets, Insurance § Public: Education, Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences § Industrial: Aerospace, Automotive, Defense, Chemical and Petroleum, Electronics § Distribution: Consumer Products, Retail, Travel, Transportation § Communications: Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, Energy and Utilities § Small and Medium Business: Mainly companies with less than 1,000 employees

Additional Information

Posted:

December 7, 2011

Type:

Full-time

Experience:

Mid-Senior level

Functions:

Strategy/Planning

Industries:

Financial Services

Job ID:

2068373

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