Associate Finance Specialist; SAP

Associate Finance Specialist

As an Associate Finance Specialist at IBM, you'll apply your knowledge of finance, accounting, and business operations while developing expertise in SAP, one of the world's leading enterprise technology platforms. You'll help organizations modernize financial processes, improve financial performance and reporting, and use technology, data, automation, and Artificial Intelligence to transform how finance operates.

As part of our SAP practice, you'll work alongside experienced SAP consultants, finance professionals, and technology specialists to help clients solve real-world financial and business challenges through SAP-enabled solutions.

This opportunity is designed for individuals with a strong foundation in finance or accounting who are interested in developing technology and consulting expertise. Prior SAP experience is not required. IBM will provide structured learning, mentorship, IBM Skills Build, certification opportunities, and hands-on client experiences to help you develop specialized SAP capabilities.

Depending on business needs, your skills, academic background, and career interests, you may support SAP solutions across areas such as financial accounting, management accounting, financial reporting, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, controlling, and other finance-related business processes.

No two projects are exactly alike, you could support clients across industries including manufacturing, consumer products, retail, healthcare, financial services, energy, automotive, industrial, public sector, and more.

Throughout your experience, you'll strengthen your understanding of end-to-end financial processes while learning how SAP technologies enable those processes across large organizations. You'll gain exposure to how financial requirements are translated into enterprise solutions and how technology, data, automation, analytics, and AI can improve financial operations and decision-making.

You may have opportunities to:

• Work with finance, accounting, business, and technology teams to understand financial processes, requirements, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support SAP-enabled finance processes including financial accounting, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, controlling, and related financial activities.
• Analyze financial and business requirements and help translate them into SAP-enabled process and technology solutions.
• Apply finance and accounting knowledge to understand how transactions and business processes flow through an organization and contribute to financial reporting, controls, analysis, and decision-making.
• Participate in SAP configuration, testing, data validation, documentation, issue resolution, and solution implementation activities under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Analyze financial, operational, and business data to identify trends, evaluate performance, and support business decision-making.
• Support finance process improvement and transformation initiatives designed to improve efficiency, accuracy, visibility, controls, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with experienced SAP consultants, finance professionals, technology specialists, and client stakeholders while developing consulting, communication, analytical, and technology skills.
• Gain exposure to how Artificial Intelligence, automation, analytics, cloud technologies, and enterprise platforms are transforming the finance function.

We're not looking for SAP experts. We're looking for individuals with strong finance and accounting capabilities, analytical thinking, curiosity, and a desire to learn. Through structured development and hands-on experience, you'll build the SAP and consulting capabilities needed to complement your financial expertise.

To give yourself the best opportunity for success, we advise applying only to roles that align with your skills and experience, rather than applying broadly across all entry-level positions. You'll receive a status update email for each application, so be sure to check your IBM Careers account regularly — it's the best way to get a centralized view of which roles you have active applications against.

Currently completing or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration with a concentration in Finance or Accounting, or a closely related business field. MBA candidates with relevant finance, accounting, or financial business-process experience are also encouraged to apply.

• Strong foundational understanding of finance and accounting concepts, including areas such as financial reporting, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, financial analysis, controlling, or related financial processes.
• Understanding of how financial transactions and business processes contribute to financial statements, reporting, internal controls,…