Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. In this role, you will work for IBM BPO, part of Consulting that, accelerates digital transformation using agile methodologies, process mining, and AI-powered workflows.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including IBM Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
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Your role and responsibilities
As a Group Manager, you are responsible for handling finance clients in different industries and across Finance and Accounts.
Your primary responsibilities include:
• You will own client engagements/contracts across geographies- Operations support for establishing processes, metrics identifications and reporting.
• Establish and maintain a robust tracking mechanism for key indicators of the operations to support decision-making.
• Responsible for achieving transformation at a high level of change management experience, including challenging, inspiring and leading the team.
• Responsible for tracking and driving all process parameters 'critical to quality' for process delivery.
• Assist management with career development activities for team members, team leaders and managers, including performance management, feedback, and training.
• Ensure adequate mentorship & training of team members to ensure process objectives & Customer requirements are met.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Minimum 16+ years of experience in Finance and Accounting Delivery & Transformations
• Proven experience creating and developing value propositions, business cases, and industry-specific offerings.
• Ability to ideate strategic direction and initiatives through designing of business outcome models, contracting structures and identification of new opportunities and business lines.
• Proficient in supporting the sales team in building a compelling business case for prospective clients to the offshore business and working closely with Process Delivery leaders in identifying improvement opportunities and implementing the same across all processes.
• Expertise in leading efforts on continuous process improvements and transformation along with carrying out maturity assessments.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• A certified Chartered Accountant/Company Secretaryship/Certified Management Accountant.
• Proven experience in end-to-end Record to Report, Procure to Pay & Order to Cash process.
• In-depth process knowledge in central finance reporting, management reporting and reports.
• Ability to influence people internal/external customers, Operations and Finance partners.
• Ambitious individual who can work under their direction towards agreed targets/goals and with a creative approach to work.
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management.
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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